2) What is rationality and why is it important to us as human beings?
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2) What is rationality and why is it important to us as human beings?
2) What is rationality and why is it important to us as human beings?
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Rationality in this sense involves an awareness of the considerations that tempt us to believe and act in certain ways – of our potential reasons – and the ability to evaluate those reasons in accordance with a priori principles that determine whether they are good reasons or not. Being rational helps us human beings be more aware to what is happening to our surroundings.
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The idea of rationality, as we find it paradigmatically exercised by mature human beings, entails capacities that no human being is born with, such as the capacity for thought and judgement, giving and asking for reasons, and above all, language.