245 Thinking Rationally Part 3: Anti-Rational Ideas
May 08, 2016•21 min•Ep. 245
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Episode description
Rational thinking transforms your life, by giving you autonomy and the freedom of the individual. Since it spread during the Enlightenment, rational thinking has also transformed society and created the modern world. Yet many influential philosophers explicitly rejected rational thinking, because they understood where it would lead and did not like what they saw. This episode is about anti-rational ideas. I cover how these ideas emerged as a reaction to the Enlightenment, and why such anti-rational ideas are so popular today among contemporary philosophers.
Show Notes:
Show Notes:
- Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks (free pdf and audiobook on author's website)
- Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
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