From my perspective, treating rationality as always instrumental, and never a terminal value is playing around with it’s traditional meaning. (And indiscriminately teaching instrumental rationality is like indiscriminately handing out weapons. The traditional idea, going back to st least Plato, is that teaching someone to be rational improves them...changes their values)
From my perspective, treating rationality as always instrumental, and never a terminal value is playing around with it’s traditional meaning. (And indiscriminately teaching instrumental rationality is like indiscriminately handing out weapons. The traditional idea, going back to st least Plato, is that teaching someone to be rational improves them...changes their values)