I think coming to agreement on terms through a dialectic is something most everyone can agree to engage in, and I don’t think it’s offensive to or beyond the scope of rationality. Socrates’ way is the sort of meta-winning way, the way that, if fully pursued, will arrive at the conclusion of rationality.
For instance, In any one of those cases, I could start with a dialectic about problem-solving in everyday life, or at least general cases, and proceed to the principle that rationality is the best way. I’d try to come to agreement about the methods we use to diagnose a car problem, calculate how much they owe in taxes, or decide to enter an intersection, and extrapolate to epistemology from there. The philosopher, the Christian, and the hedonist all use reason, not will-to-power, faith, or desire to fix and drive their cars and pay their taxes, and this gives the evangelist of reason a method of proving the epistemological assertion that there is such a thing as truth, which we encounter in passing, and that rationality is the optimal way to approach it.
I think coming to agreement on terms through a dialectic is something most everyone can agree to engage in, and I don’t think it’s offensive to or beyond the scope of rationality. Socrates’ way is the sort of meta-winning way, the way that, if fully pursued, will arrive at the conclusion of rationality.
For instance, In any one of those cases, I could start with a dialectic about problem-solving in everyday life, or at least general cases, and proceed to the principle that rationality is the best way. I’d try to come to agreement about the methods we use to diagnose a car problem, calculate how much they owe in taxes, or decide to enter an intersection, and extrapolate to epistemology from there. The philosopher, the Christian, and the hedonist all use reason, not will-to-power, faith, or desire to fix and drive their cars and pay their taxes, and this gives the evangelist of reason a method of proving the epistemological assertion that there is such a thing as truth, which we encounter in passing, and that rationality is the optimal way to approach it.