In this case at least, a personal "upheaval of thought" cannot be contained within the discourse of reason.
Shakespeare says: HAMLET: …O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
What we have in the White House is a "beast that wants discourse of reason," as Hamlet characterized him some 414 years ago - an empty, cruel, self-seeking demagogue.
The most remarkable achievement of this book is that it has the ability to move these and other important questions to the forefront of the minds of those who read it and begin that paradigm shift through the discourse of reason.
This may not make sense to non-Sikhs - just as chaos theory is beyond classic scientific logic, the sacred is beyond the discourse of human reason.
That's the sad thing about economic discourse, and the reason I keep talking about zombies: the same demonstrably wrong ideas just keep coming back, and back, and back, from the Treasury view on demand to the trust fund bait and switch.
The fact that such statements are not welcomed in American public discourse is one reason why the American model of integration and tolerance works better than the Dutch model, and why the Netherlands continues to be wracked by tensions over Islam and integration years after those tensions forced Ms Hirsi Ali herself to leave.
The second main disqualifier was the liberal idea (present in the narrative of this entry from the time of the religious wars in Europe) that we need a moral discourse based on reason and not religion in order to avoid the hatred and bloodshed that religion seems to bring with it.
Though the state's rights justification has risen among many in the contemporary public discourse, the overarching reason for the Civil War was slavery.
In order to operate within "the logical space of reasons," one must be at home with normative discourse, responsive to reasons as such, sensitive to standards of correctness and appropriateness.
