{Faith and Reason}[8th September 1988]

[Redbook5:350][19880908:1730]{Faith and Reason}[8th September 1988]

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It might seem odd to a rationalist of any kind that Faith is seen with Analysis (and Reason) on the right of the circle. In modern times the contrast between religion and science is seen as being between faith and reason – by scientists at least. But it is possible to be religious without faith.

Rationalists are marked by faith in reason – exclusively; at least as a linking framework with which to make sense of experience. Romantics have no such absolute or exclusive faith in anything except the experience of the moment. Am I suggesting that experimental science is romantic? – No: because it is controlled by Reason. But the primacy given to experience – whether outer or inner – in Art, is essentially Romantic.*

*But see [[Redbook5:171][19880618:1855]{The Metaphysic of Metaphysics}[18^th June 1988]] 171

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