Sentences with phrase «rationally indefensible»
«Values» becomes an overused code word for «the incomprehensible, rationally indefensible thing that the individual chooses when he or she has thrown off the last vestige of external influence and reached pure, contentless freedom.»
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Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge» of so - called objective facts and «belief» in so - called subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.
In other words, if politics is reducible to technocratic competence then there is something benighted about the clash of interests — out interests seem to be little more than idiosyncratic expressions of our rationally indefensible attachments.