Q. About Rationality and Nature
August 13, 2014 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2014 at 4:20 pm by Mudhammam.)
Do you think the whole of nature, as in the primeval substance in which it began to exist, can be deemed either rational, irrational, or arational? Is it necessarily unknowable for beings within a sphere of empirical experience? (A. Is any other kind possible? B. Is an empirical experience, as opposed to an imagined one, a prerequisite for any conceptualization or is it vice versa?) In other words, does Reason reign supreme to Sense, or the other way around? Do intelligent beings derive their own rationality from a non-sensuous intelligible source, giving them a means to understand the sensuous, Nature and her laws, which have the appearance of rationality--or is it vice versa--does rationality, and hence the mathematical precision we have developed to intimately understand external objects in our intercourse with the world, find their source only in the spontaneous generation from an arational state, though unlike anything in our range of experience, in that it is unconditionally necessary?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
