https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/ It's because rationality that's commi

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/ It's because rationality that's committed to a narrow definition of what rationality means typically leads to irrationality at some terminal point. When people describe themselves as "rationalist" they typically mean "instrumental reason" which is a form of reasoning that has its own bias and baked in values (e.g. western modern values, often supremely meritocratic, technocratic, utilitarian values) which are different from the values powering the methods and forms of reasoning of other cultures and other historical periods. There's a tendency for a superiority complex to creep in where one who takes undue pride in one's "reasoning" sees only one mode of reasoning as the one true reasoning (one true value system). Ancient cultures had value systems that were entirely different than ours, this doesn't make our scientific reasoning "better" it makes our reasonings incommensurable until you commit to some system of shared values as the one true system of values (e.g. self-preservation, but there's nothing saying that's what humanity should value and in fact one could argue that one of the important facets of being human is the capability to reject this value).