Rationality

[...] when has people's political behavior ever been universally rational? Never. 
-- Contrapoints on YouTube channel matt bernsteinLGBT conservatives (w/ contrapoints) | Sep 19, 2023 | youtube.com | 594,014 views Sep 19, 2023 LGBT conservatives: Why? How? Where did they come from? What can we learn from them, and how can we dismantle the LGBT conservative that lives within all of us? Natalie Wynn (aka Contrapoints) helps us psychoanalyze one of the more confusing political positions of our time. Jeffree Star makes an appearance, for better or for worse. Indulge in Natalie’s work: / contrapoints Find us: / abitfruitypod / mattxiv Produced by Samantha Land: / samalander Edited by Justin Bretter: / fieldsobriety Rationality is based on what you do after you assume prepositions. After you assume prepositions, you reason. ‘Rationality’ is a synonym of reason. It refers to the reasoning capacity of the human, or what the human makes reason for it, such as artificial intelligence. Reasoning is commonly regarded as some special way of thinking, but the reality is that all thinking is based on reasoning from presuppositions. In fact, depressed people may experience themselves as not doing reasoning when they have negative thoughts about themselves, yet their negative thoughts are reasoning about themselves. Depression is thus a form of psychosis, i.e. a schizosis, where-in the mind argues against itself, with the effect of feeling mentally bad—needless to say with psychosomatic effects, since the body is a unified system. 
The popularity of these factions is not so much a matter of theoretical sophistication or technological achievement as the result of the dominance of such impoverished concepts of rationality. 
-- Reza Negarestani, 17
Rational addictionGary Becker and Kevin Murphy’s theory of rational addiction, in which they hypothesized that addicts plan their consumption of addictive goods. When deciding whether to smoke a cigarette or take a hit, the theory goes, addicts choose in full knowledge and consideration of the health costs and the future costs of their smoking or drug use due to addiction.It’s tempting to claim that others’ actions are irrational; to delay such judgement involves a healthy degree of humility. After all, an external witness to a person’s actions doesn’t know what that person’s objectives are.History
Traditionally, Socrates has been linked to the view of reason as the most important element in human behavior, the means through which our irrational capacities are tamed.Socrates and the Irrational: | UVA Press (virginia.edu). https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3244Traditionally, Socrates has been linked to the view of reason as the most important element in human behavior, the means through which our irrational capacities are tamed. Yet, one might ask, if his legacy were solely derived from his having been a master reasoner, why would he have been able to maintain his place in our imaginations for so long? In Socrates and the Irrational, James Hans argues that when Socrates speaks for himself, he reveals a far more complex portrait of the nature of human existence than the Platonic conception of him has conveyed. Exploring Socratic thought through four key dialogues—the Ion, the Apology, the Phaedrus, and the Republic—Hans offers a larger vision of both Socrates and human potential that goes beyond the reductive placement of reason on the side of the good and unreason on the side of the bad. Embracing Socrates’ reverence for poets, his reliance on feeling and intuition, his attitude toward death, and his defense of prophecy and love, Hans shows how thoroughly the Socratic idea of reason is based on the affective aspects of bodily existence that traditional approaches to his thought ignore. For those who have a philosophical interest in the foundation of Western thought as well as those whose interests in the humanities encompass the nature of the examined life, Socrates and the Irrational is both an accessible and an erudite journey into the mind of this central figure of our civilization.Traditionally,Socrates and the Irrational: | UVA Press (virginia.edu). https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3244
== Types ==
Rationality for grandiose constructsDemandingness and grandiosity are emphasized because they serve as primary cognitive tendencies in rational-emotive therapy (RET) which appear to drive most other irrational belief systems. The main postulate is that a genetic potential to think irrationally has evolved and is genetically coded in humans because it facilitated adaptive behavioral and emotional responses as a means of securing critical advantages in early childhood development, increased reproductive success, and basic survival.
== Rhizomata ==
* See also e.g. ‘instrumental rationality’.
* Reasoning
* Faculties
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Category:Logic