What are the limits of wise use of strict logical rationality?
At the risk of fangirling Overcoming Bias too much (which scribb1e tells me I might be), I'd say that emotions are just fine for someone who aspires to rationality, or at least, the sort of rationality I'd find interesting, which is working out how the world is.
Speaking of relationships, I don't think rationality has much to say about how happy love "should" make a person (that's something you have to find out about yourself). But it seems rational to say that, yes, everything which is subject to arising is subject to cessation, but it's the bit in between which is interesting. People may get in to short or bad relationships for bad reasons (for example, perhaps they think no-one who wants a long or a good relationship will ever want them, when for most people this isn't true), but they might also get into them with their eyes open, as it were. People may acknowledge the risk of a relationship ending but decide that love is worth it. I wouldn't call that irrational if they're right.
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Date: 2009-02-09 01:27 am (UTC)At the risk of fangirling Overcoming Bias too much (which
Speaking of relationships, I don't think rationality has much to say about how happy love "should" make a person (that's something you have to find out about yourself). But it seems rational to say that, yes, everything which is subject to arising is subject to cessation, but it's the bit in between which is interesting. People may get in to short or bad relationships for bad reasons (for example, perhaps they think no-one who wants a long or a good relationship will ever want them, when for most people this isn't true), but they might also get into them with their eyes open, as it were. People may acknowledge the risk of a relationship ending but decide that love is worth it. I wouldn't call that irrational if they're right.