> Since my worthy opponents have apparently withdrawn from the great
> faith debate I'm going to switch sides and argue against reason.
*grin*
> A reasonable list of human qualities might include: Ethics,
> common sense, imagination or creativity, memory or history or
> experience, intuition and reason. The humanist tries to use
> all of these. ... The moment one quality is cut free from the others
> and given precedence over them, this imbalance will bring out the
> winner's negative aspects.
>
> Thus ethics in power quickly turn into a religious dictatorship.
> Common sense couldn't help but subside into pessimistic
> confusion, as if wallowing in the mud. Creativity into anarchy.
> Memory into the worst sort of monarchical dictatorship.
> Intuition into the rule of base superstition. And reason, as we
> have seen over the last half-century, into a directionless, amoral
> dictatorship of structure.
>
> John Ralston Saul -- The Doubter's Companion
>
> Agree or disagree?
This makes sense to me. Having several systems of thought allows checking
of one against the other, to avoid the errors, narrowmindedness, and
monotony of any one.
Eva