i’m a bit new to all of this, but its oddly convenient to conclude that it is rational to ignore a topic that doesn’t lend itself to classic rational thought.
It’s a question of whether to respond to a track record of failure by going off and doing something else instead or persevering. When is it best to attend to developing one’s strengths, and when to attend to remedying one’s weaknesses?
what is your focus, i.e. what would be the ideal goal that you are saying is difficult or impossible to achieve and so it is rational to avoid -- what goal do you find elusive here—personal understanding of the correct “answer” in spite of biases, “raising the sanity waterline” as someone mentioned above, or something else?
Both these items suggest a need for an definitive answer to political questions and I’m not sure that is the correct focus.
If applying rational thought to politics has a track record of failure and we agree politics is a part of everyone’s reality, do you think rational thought cannot explain politics and is an inherent shortcoming of the theory? (this is other way of saying we should move on to things). We talk about rationality like its the way to live life. its troubling that it cannot answer or explain political issues, which shape our government, laws and community. The value of the a theory should partially be tested based on issues and questions it cannot answer. If there are things rational thinking cannot solve, that is an issue/problem with rational theory, not the particular subject matter.
i’m a bit new to all of this, but its oddly convenient to conclude that it is rational to ignore a topic that doesn’t lend itself to classic rational thought.
It’s a question of whether to respond to a track record of failure by going off and doing something else instead or persevering. When is it best to attend to developing one’s strengths, and when to attend to remedying one’s weaknesses?
what is your focus, i.e. what would be the ideal goal that you are saying is difficult or impossible to achieve and so it is rational to avoid -- what goal do you find elusive here—personal understanding of the correct “answer” in spite of biases, “raising the sanity waterline” as someone mentioned above, or something else?
Both these items suggest a need for an definitive answer to political questions and I’m not sure that is the correct focus.
If applying rational thought to politics has a track record of failure and we agree politics is a part of everyone’s reality, do you think rational thought cannot explain politics and is an inherent shortcoming of the theory? (this is other way of saying we should move on to things). We talk about rationality like its the way to live life. its troubling that it cannot answer or explain political issues, which shape our government, laws and community. The value of the a theory should partially be tested based on issues and questions it cannot answer. If there are things rational thinking cannot solve, that is an issue/problem with rational theory, not the particular subject matter.
No, merely a contingent failure of people almost everywhere and always.
so its a problem of the individual, not the theory. not sure how you conclude that if no one can apply the theory to prove it.