2007-01-12 05:08:38 · 19 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Those who do not critique their own reasoning will do something so outrageous and feel no remorse for their actions. We all study our own habits on a daily basis, on a subconscious level. We adapt this way. If we say a distasteful joke to our friends, we know it is funny because they laugh, yet we know we cannot say this at the workplace (unless you work with your friends) because it is distasteful. This allows us to gain friendship through our own means, and -- as DesCartes will tell you -- friendship is nothing more than a survival method, a safety-in-numbers routine that we have used since we started this whole upright-walking thing.
Those who reason what they say will learn about themselves; those who don't will remain ignorant to the public and moral views of their own ego. If you have never questioned why you did something, then you are clearly not capable of thinking like a human being. For example: Why am I writing this? The answer is clear: I want others to share my point of view -- the most undoubtable human instinct. But if I didn't answer this question, would you feel the same way about your own inquiry? Maybe, maybe not. The truth is, however, that I have planted a seed in your head and thus made you critique your OWN reasoning. That is to say, why did you ask this question? To which the answer is: Knowledge. It is not ignorance that makes a man ask something, it is the powerful and quizzical nature of our very souls that makes us always want to know more each and every day. Logic just happens to be one of the most disruptively quiet topics in philosophy.
So what I'm trying to say is that we are all still looking for ourselves, and we can never find us until someone else introduces us to ourselves. Got it?
2007-01-12 05:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by johnmfsample 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I critique my own reasoning all the time because some things we have accepted as true just because we were taught them and we never question those beliefs. Critiquing your own reasoning is a way of growing and thinking on another level intelectually. I don't think anyone wants to stay at the same level their whole lives?
2007-01-12 05:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by Casey D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, however what is to be gained from this activity? Do we assume that reason analyzing reason can produce some kind of new insight? Or will the analysis end with reason confirming its own process? In other words, if reason is a limited perspective, what can result from an analysis of reason?
2007-01-12 05:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by franc 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how are you able to appreciate something approximately Christians once you do not have faith something approximately there actuality? you're saying Christians have faith because of the fact of something which you dream up or sum as much as being something that sounds logical to you. And yet in view which you do not have faith, there's no way which you will have faith something that a Christian says in answer on your rant. You sum up what you think of you realize approximately somebody after which you ask a query which could no longer be responded properly because of the fact of your loss of workmanship with something which you have been speaking approximately. the place and whilst have you ever considered Christians doing what you're speaking approximately outdoors of your mind's eye?
2016-10-07 01:32:45 · answer #4 · answered by lashbrook 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Though I'm sure I didn't until I realized that it's a blessing to be wrong about some of the things reasoning is capable of asserting.
2007-01-12 05:12:35 · answer #5 · answered by !@#%&! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the time.
This is weird because I was just thinking about this tonight while driving.
When I find my reasoning valid or even remotely logical, I begin to doubt myself. I question myself until I find the 'missing link'.
Let me just put it this way...
Whenever I actually agree with myself, I know there's something wrong.
2007-01-12 16:47:49 · answer #6 · answered by falzalnz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the time!!!! Thats why I'm Krazy!
"Age of reasoning" is All the Time.
PEACE
2007-01-12 05:14:26 · answer #7 · answered by Leelah08 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, but not to get the satisfaction that I'm right, but to understand why I thought what I did and to see if I'm being biased, if I'm being a hypocrite and things like that
2007-01-12 05:37:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do, and all too often. I think that's normal though, to a degree.
2007-01-12 05:13:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ugh, yes....I call that overthinking and have to remind myself to get outside my own head.
2007-01-12 13:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anne Teak 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋