But panic not for he opined only - and that is based upon belief, not
reason. And opinions are based upon beliefs which do not necessarily
entail emotion - it just the old episteme vs, doxa dichotomy. :-)
Of course even if this beast of pure reason was real, there is no
problem. It is not claimed that you must outreason the beast to
enter, merely convince it by the use of pure reason yourself.
Anything else would be unreasonable. But any attempt to use other
than reasonable approaches would be a waste of time for the beast of
pure reason cannot recognise an unreasonable paradigm.
Of course, the existence of paradise is quite unreasonable itself and
therein lies the paradox, and the joke.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 17/03/2007, at 9:34 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> And yet there was a wise man of earlier times who once opined that
> the gates of paradise are guarded by a creature of pure reason, which
> suggests to my non-theological mind that one will not be able to
> enter paradise via the use of reason because one cannot outreason
> pure reason. Therefore, the gates of paradise may be accessed only
> through non-reason, which sometimes passes as emotion, or faith, or
> intuition. Or somesuch.
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