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Lee explores, in the vast tracts of the novelist's writings, her annotations in her own beloved books, and reports: Santayana, whom she greatly admired, gets one annotation in "The Life of Reason".
She concludes: Adrienne Rich, whom I have always admired as poet and phenomenologist of anger, is a piker compared to some self-styled radical feminists, all too eager to dump the life of reason (along with the idea of authority) into the dustbin of "patriarchal history"..
She concludes: Adrienne Rich, whom I have always admired as poet and phenomenologist of anger, is a piker compared to some self-styled radical feminists, all too eager to dump the life of reason (along with the idea of authority) into the dustbin of "patriarchal history"...
Exemplars of the life of reason, they made philosophy "the humanizing quest for the eternal order, and hence it had been a pure source of humane inspiration and aspiration," until the moderns came along and debased it, making it a utilitarian "instrument" and an ideological "weapon".
It was certainly in place by the time of Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923) but not fully so at the time of The Life of Reason (1905).
It consists in showing that our happiness and well-being lie not in a life enslaved to the passions and to the transitory goods we ordinarily pursue; nor in the related unreflective attachment to the superstitions that pass as religion, but rather in the life of reason.
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As such, we may say in particular of those Biblical prooftexts employed by Saadya in support of the importance of reasoning, that they simultaneously (one might even say, paradoxically) beckon us to (a) the limitations of reasoning, (b) the need for (and consistency with reason of) revealed Knowledge, and even (c) the need to ground a life of reasoned reflection in a life of revealed tradition.
Turns out the atheist godless life of reason--like all human lives--isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
This naturalistic approach to aesthetics is expanded in his philosophical explication of art found in The Life of Reason Reasonn in Art (1905).
It might be that a couple could have most reason to create a boy with a prospect of a good life, even if they could create a girl with a better life, for reasons of sex balancing, or just because this boy will make the lives of other women even better.
My twenties was the worst decade of my life, for reasons beyond my grasp of heaven.
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