While Pseudodoxia uses religious metaphors to explain the processes of reason and error, as well as exploring the truth of biblical stories, Religio Medici uses science and scientific metaphors to understand and explain religious faith, including digressions into alchemy and astronomy.
It is to this end that we further trace the learning path of self-consciousness through the processes of reason (in Chapter 5) before objective spirit can become the explicit subject matter of Chapter 6 (Spirit).
This consists of examining the process of reason itself, of dividing and testing the human knowledge capacity in order to determine how far out its boundaries may be placed" (9.32).
The conversion in disposition Plato speaks of a peristrophe of the soul (cf. Res publica VII, 521c5)—leads the possible intellect to the uncreated and uncreatable ground of the soul, whose movement, as a process of reason, reaches its goal in the absolute one (unialiter unum, a combination suggested by Proclus; Eckhart speaks of the luter pur clar Ein or indistinctum, the undifferentiated).
What does the science of mental functioning have to contribute, to shed light on the objective facts of the phenomenon under the microscope, in the hope, even if a vain one, of accelerating some degree of control of such outbursts by a process of reason?
Democracy, properly understood, is the context in which individuals freely engage in a process of reasoned discussion and deliberation on an equal footing.
Without the ability to participate intelligently in politics one cannot use one's votes to advance one's aims nor can one be said to participate in a process of reasoned deliberation among equals.
It is instead a subjective process of intellect and instinct, reason and gut reaction, facts and feelings.
Accepting that risk perception is not so much a process of pure reason, but rather a subjective combination of the facts and how those facts feel, might be just the step in the human learning curve we need to make.
Similarly, family physicians' satisfaction was not associated with whether they and the psychiatrists had concordance on the process of care, reason for the consultation, or responsibility for follow-up.
The Élysée Palace said legislation would be introduced before the end of the year to facilitate the process "for reasons of public order".
