tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post1745920007844063822..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: 9-22-12 HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-54517866798365100002012-10-01T08:58:23.434-06:002012-10-01T08:58:23.434-06:00Well said.Well said.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-1405911140884226692012-09-22T17:00:16.658-06:002012-09-22T17:00:16.658-06:00Hi Gus,
I read the New Statesman article and foun...Hi Gus,<br /><br />I read the New Statesman article and found the following eerily familiar.<br /><br /><i>The true function of such books, of course, is to free readers from the responsibility of thinking for themselves. This is made eerily explicit in the psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, published last March, which claims to show that “moral knowledge” is best obtained through “intuition” (arising from unconscious brain processing) rather than by explicit reasoning. <b>“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason,”</b> Haidt enthuses, in a perverse manifesto for autolobotomy. I made an Olympian effort to take his advice seriously, and found myself rejecting the reasoning of his entire book. </i><br /><br />Dr. Floyd Ferris was more succinct. "Why do you think you think?"<br /><br />c andrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com