The Empowerment Of Rationalism

It should be readily apparent that rationalism can grant one person significant power over another [1], for the ability to deconstruct erroneous worldviews is the ability to strike others at their very cores.  Likewise, rationalism brings with it an inner liberation from falsehood that allows someone to experience the deepest individual empowerment: that of possessing knowledge in a world where few even recognize what knowledge itself is.  The source of this empowerment is the stability granted by genuinely knowing truths.

It is the rationalist alone, after all, who observes everything else from the right vantage point.  Only a rationalist can properly comprehend how the pieces of reality interlock to form the different aspects of the truth, for a person who does not seek the light of reason in all things is adrift in epistemological darkness.  Only rationalists have the ability to consider any particular truth in light of all the others, since it is reason that permits a correct understanding of both precise facts on an individual level and the relationship between them.

A non-rationalist can at best stumble upon isolated truths by sheer happenstance, operating without the light of the only intrinsically valid epistemological tool that exists.  The non-rationalist does not know of the empowering effects of submission to reason and cannot know of them apart from that submission.  Many will claim to have a high regard for truth, yet only a tiny minority will choose to submit to the authority of reason, which brings clarity and stability wherever it is embraced.  Grasping that clarity can be one of the most fulfilling and energizing things that one can experience.

Rationalism illuminates external truths, but it also provides an internal empowerment.  Without it, there is nothing but arbitrary belief in the uncertain; with it, there is certainty and immutable firmness.  Only a hypocritical fool rejects rationalism and pretends like he or she cares about truth anyway.  Furthermore, only a fool would regard the world to not be full of such hypocrites.


[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot/com/2018/12/the-power-of-rationalism.html