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Tous_Logous said:
Can too much rationalism be irrational?
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Absolutely.
  1. Some aspects of Truth are completely beyond the mind, so attempting to use the intellect to approach them is absurd.
  2. Any logical/rational system may be internally consistent but still utterly wrong. The mind is like a clock. A clock can tell you the time difference between one hour and the next, but if the clock is set the wrong hour, it will never be able to tell you the correct time. Just as the clock needs to be set, the mind needs to be calibrated by something outside of itself.
 
White_Tree said:
Just as the clock needs to be set, the mind needs to be calibrated by something outside of itself.
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Aristotle thought the basis of that Calibration would be the Golden Mean.

Moderation in all things.

Too much of anything can produce irrational behavior.

Including but not limited to:

Sex
Money
Drink
Work
Education.
Fame
Power

Calibrate them all with the Golden Mean. 👍
 
Tous_Logous said:
Can too much rationalism be irrational?
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There’s a book called “Descarte’s Error” by a neurologist named Antonio Damasio that you may want to read to get information on this. The division between rational and irrational thought might not be as people understand it to be.
 
Scientism, the view that only science can provide rational answers to rational questions, is a classic example of rationalism running amok.
 
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