[MD] Reason, Tradition, Absolute Truth

[Matt Kundert]

Gene,

Gene said:
By cutting at this argument using the MOQ, the paradox seems to fall away. 
It's a social patterns of values whose purpose is to free up intellectual 
patterns from Society. It's just an example of the intellectual level 
growing out of the social level. It seems quite clear to me. Social backing 
up Intellectual.

Matt:
Presumably, given such an analysis, you would argue against traditionalists 
that their social patterns are attempting to restrict intellectual patterns, 
and therefore are bad.  That analysis is the same one that makes the 
Reason/Tradition distinction, the one I'm trying to call into question.  The 
social level is our traditions that reason has broken away from and that can 
now correct the social patterns.  That's just bad Enlightenment philosophy, 
SOM.

Matt

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