That made me chuckle. Or writing some of the funniest philosophical humour I’ve read.
I don’t understand the view that “rationalists” are emotionless and incapable of appreciating aesthetics. I haven’t seen much evidence to back this claim, mere anecdotes. If anything, people who see reality more clearly can see more of its beauty. As Feynman put it, a scientist can see more beauty in the world than an artist because the scientist can see the surface level beauty as well as the beauty in the layers of abstraction all the way down to fundamental physics.
If someone consistently fails to achieve their instrumental goals by adhering too firmly to some rigid and unreasonable notion of “rationality”, then what they think rationality is must be wrong/incomplete.
That made me chuckle. Or writing some of the funniest philosophical humour I’ve read.
I don’t understand the view that “rationalists” are emotionless and incapable of appreciating aesthetics. I haven’t seen much evidence to back this claim, mere anecdotes. If anything, people who see reality more clearly can see more of its beauty. As Feynman put it, a scientist can see more beauty in the world than an artist because the scientist can see the surface level beauty as well as the beauty in the layers of abstraction all the way down to fundamental physics.
If someone consistently fails to achieve their instrumental goals by adhering too firmly to some rigid and unreasonable notion of “rationality”, then what they think rationality is must be wrong/incomplete.