- the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- Philosophy: the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience.
- Theology: the doctrine that human reason, unaided by divine revelation, is an adequate or the sole guide to all attainable religious truth.
In today’s society, we observe escalating conflicts in public and private discourse relating to politics, religion, law, and other topics of public interest. Spirited debate done in good faith is rapidly being replaced by myopic arguments driven by ideology and dogma. Social media amplifies this situation by providing platforms within which people can disburse their preferred ideology without cost, or often, thought or knowledge.
This blog attempts to address and comment on matters of public interest in a fashion that avoids dogmatic or ideological slants, using available facts and reason applied in a thoughtful and objective manner.
This is, after all, what it means to be a rationalist.
The Rationalist Blog 