Ep. 65 - Reason With Stories, Philosophize With Your Life (Vision of the Soul Pt. III) - James Matthew Wilson

The Catholic Culture Podcast · Jan 30, 2020 · 57m

Modernity elevated pure, abstract reasoning as the only way to know about reality. Reason having disenchanted everything else, modernity then became disenchanted with reason. The ascendancy of reason over superstitious myths was viewed by the postmodernists as just another myth to be exposed.

The postmodernists were right to see that the dictates of reason were not wholly separate from our lives, self-images and desires, but were colored by the stories we tell about ourselves. But they were wrong to conclude that reason is therefore inherently suspect.

That's because human life really is…