If so, what are they?
2007-12-12 03:30:11 · 12 answers · asked by mikayla_starstuff 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The mind is limited...it can not understand what it does not know.
Reason is of the mind and so has the same limitations.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-12-12 03:39:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. When something reaches the limit of reason it becomes unreasonable. Take religion for example.
2007-12-12 11:35:03 · answer #2 · answered by Sly Phi AM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reason cannot tell you what truly "is". Perception is deceiving.
This is why there are very intelligent scholars in all the religions of the world. They're not having a problem with their reasoning skills... its perception that is the Achilles heel of rationality.
2007-12-12 11:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe Existentalism and Post-modernist western philosophy brings a variety of critiques against reason.
The one that rings in my head is the admonishment of David Hume, one of the first philosophers i read outside of my native tongue.
"Reason is a slave to our passions."
2007-12-12 12:05:53 · answer #4 · answered by D.Chen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reason cannot rationalize the illogical. That is why Christian arguments do not require a shred of proof.
2007-12-12 11:47:45 · answer #5 · answered by =_= 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, for example: can you answer this question with a simple 'no'?
there is no way to reason that out
if you say, "Yes" you have not answered with a simple 'no'
if you say, "no" you have answered with a simple 'no', but you have answered in the negative thereby contradicting yourself
2007-12-12 11:40:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only when people stop questioning things and accept an answer just to end the questions...
2007-12-12 11:32:39 · answer #7 · answered by clint 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you enter into the unreasonable.
2007-12-12 11:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by Rational Humanist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. But it's still better than faith, by far.
2007-12-12 11:34:20 · answer #9 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. If it doesn't make sense, it probably is wrong.
2007-12-12 11:33:05 · answer #10 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋