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Define the word confidence or faith in reason.

      

Define the word confidence or faith in reason.

  

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Martin
Confidence that in the long run one's own higher interests and those of humankind at large will best be served by giving the freest play to reason by encouraging people to come to their own conclusions through a process of developing their own rational faculties

Faith that (with proper encouragement and cultivation) people can learn to think for themselves, form rational viewpoints, draw reasonable conclusions, think coherently and logically, persuade each other by reason, and become reasonable, despite the deep-seated obstacles in the native character of the human mind and in society.

Confidence in reason is cultivated through experiences in which one reasons one's way to insight, solves problems through reason, uses reason to persuade, and is persuaded by reason.

Confidence in reason is undermined when one is expected to perform tasks without understanding why, to repeat statements without having verified or justified them, to accept beliefs on the sole basis of authority or social pressure

marto answered the question on April 30, 2019 at 09:18


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