On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> Because if you're the kind of person who believes in "reason" (or
> science, or the good, or whatever) as the Salvation of Humanity, the
> notion that it is rooted in the nonrational (or the non-good, or non-
> whatever) is terrifying, because it points to the irrationality of
> your own belief.
Why does historicizing something - taking it out of the realm of timeless nature and inserting it into social processes - render it "irrational"?
Doug