Blindly following "reason" and rejecting the "irrational" is a dangerous formula in my opinion. Why? Because when examined with rules of logic, life itself is an illogical, absurd enterprise. We struggle to live knowing that we will one day die. Under these conditions, suicide and murder become legitimate, and we rob ourselves of enjoyment.
"Logic to the point of death," Camus called it.
I am an existentialist. I, myself, am the starting point. HUMANITY is the starting point. Ideologies that threaten or devalue the will to live must be disposed of. Ideologies that promote the will to live are to be promoted. Logic is useful, but once you enshrine it as a deity, you threaten life.
Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates:
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Originally Posted by Nietzsche
The most blinding daylight; rationality at any price; life, bright, cold, cautious, conscious, without instinct, in opposition to the instincts--all this too was a mere disease, another disease, and by no means a return to "virtue," to "health," to happiness. To have to fight the instincts--that is the formula of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
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