RE: Is sanity rational?
October 5, 2014 at 1:51 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2014 at 1:51 am by Whateverist.)
(September 25, 2014 at 9:24 pm)bennyboy Wrote: As I get older, I'm starting to reminisce more.
That and pee more often but much more slowly, right?
(September 25, 2014 at 9:24 pm)bennyboy Wrote: But are these components of world view ACTUALLY rational? Are they founded on observation or a sensible process of drawing inferences? I don't think so. I think they are expressions of feelings ingrained in our species through the process of evolution.
What say you? Does being "crazy" really mean someone has lost their grip on reality, and does being "sane" really mean someone is interacting meaningfully with an objective reality?
I say why make "rationality" the measure of sanity? Rationality isn't an entirely human perspective. That is, it doesn't encompass a perspective as wide as the ones we actually live in.
Maybe sanity is simply a question of recognizing reality well enough to be able to navigate through it successfully, while manipulating it to get your needs met without behaving monstrously toward others. But why settle for a bare-bones definition of sanity. It might be interesting to consider what are the bench marks of the kind of sanity you value most.
