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My Two Cents on Reason

If one says that the laws of reason aren’t a learned human construct that serves as a tool to discern the Real but are the very laws create and put into motion this totality in which we dwell, then you have just succeeded in deifying reason. During the French Revolution they installed a goddess of Reason. This wasn’t merely a mockery of Christianity but a profoundly RELIGIOUS act in and of itself. They replaced Yahweh with Athena. They went back to their “old time religion”.     Note to the reader : This note is just one of my ponderings and is not to be taken as statements of fact. Indeed probably ninety percent of my posts are just things that I find interesting, or on the rare occasion where I put out my own statements, I’m just thinking out loud and one shouldn’t assume that I have come to some sort conviction on a subject. Anything however that concerns my faith in Christ should be taken dead seriously because I’m not ashamed of the Gospel.

Why study Hegel?

“If one may foist such a category into systematic philosophy, we may say that the study of the ‘Objective’ and ‘Absolute Spirit’ is the most interesting part of Hegel”

The Encyclopedia Logic by Hegel, G. W. F.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005ORSR9A

True

“As soon as you demand that God’s answers be rational, and that his existence itself be rational, then you have ipso facto denied that he exists and instead you have placed your absolute confidence in reason.”

Hyperreason (The God Series Book 8) by Hockney, Mike
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ARHXAVW

Funny enough I agree with this but the real question is life, nature, the very universe itself reasonable or is reason a human construct that serves as a coping mechanism.

Struggle

“life-as Schelling writes in the Philosophical Investigations: “Where there is no struggle, there is no life”

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004A15UNM

Kant’s Mission

“is, in fact, a call to reason, again to undertake the most laborious of all tasks — that of self-examination — and to establish a tribunal, which may secure it in its well-grounded claims, while it pronounces against all baseless assumptions and pretensions, not in an arbitrary manner, but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws. This tribunal is nothing less than the critical investigation of pure reason”

Complete Woks of Immanuel Kant by Kant, Immanuel
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ENTIKHO

More problems with reason

“But it was found that — although it was affirmed that this so-called queen could not refer her descent to any higher source than that of common experience, a circumstance which necessarily brought suspicion on her claims”

Complete Woks of Immanuel Kant by Kant, Immanuel
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ENTIKHO

The problem with reason

“it finds itself compelled to have recourse to principles which transcend the region of experience, while they are regarded by common sense without distrust. It thus falls into confusion and contradictions, from which it conjectures the presence of latent errors, which, however, it is unable to discover, because the principles it employs, transcending the limits of experience, cannot be tested by that criterion . The arena of these endless contests is called Metaphysic”

Complete Woks of Immanuel Kant by Kant, Immanuel
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ENTIKHO

Why didn’t anybody tell me?

“But for anyone who wants to understand how Hegel’s philosophy was authenticated in his own eyes, and indeed, how this philosophy and its authentication are inseparable for Hegel, the Logic remains indispensable”

Hegel by Taylor, Charles
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3URHC2

Hegel’s Project

“To help to bring philosophy nearer to the form of science—that goal where it can lay aside the name of love of knowledge and be actual knowledge—that is what I have set before me”

The Phenomenology of Spirit (The Phenomenology of Mind) by Hegel, Georg W. F.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TU1E12