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Rationalism is too short-sighted. It only concerns “knowing what” but not “knowing how”. You cannot rationally or deductively explain how to ride a bike or swim
by Vektorceraptor 3y ago
Rationalism is too short-sighted. It only concerns “knowing what” but not “knowing how”. You cannot rationally or deductively explain how to ride a bike or swim. If we take the thought experiment of Mary, who lived all her life in a gray environment and read everything about colors without ever actually seeing them, then we can also say that she may know a lot about colors, but the essentials has not experienced.
There is also another distinction in human nature described by Nietzsche - the Appolinian and the Dionysian. Roughly speaking, the Appolinian can be described as the rationalistic, while the Dionysian as the ecstatic. Unfortunately, since Plato, or even Sokrates and before (the transition from Myth to Science) rationalism has predominated.
Postmodernism was an attempt to pull the rug out from under rationalism. But it actually had the opposite effect. The consequences of postmodernism are as paradoxical as postmodernism itself. The dismantling of norms has become the norm; the disintegration of identity became a new identity; The decomposition of truth itself became truth; etc.