13 Facts About Reason

Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.

Reason is often said to be reflexive, or "self-correcting", and the critique of reason has been a persistent theme in philosophy.

Reason was considered of higher stature than other characteristics of human nature, such as sociability, because it is something humans share with nature itself, linking an apparently immortal part of the human mind with the divine order of the cosmos itself.

Reason defined the highest human happiness or well being as a life which is lived consistently, excellently, and completely in accordance with reason.

Reason is for Plotinus both the provider of form to material things, and the light which brings individuals souls back into line with their source.

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Reason formulated such a principle, called the "categorical imperative", which would justify an action only if it could be universalized:.

Reason thus described reason as a group of three autonomous spheres:.

Reason used the word speech as an English version of the Greek word logos so that speech did not need to be communicated.

Some Enlightenment camps took after the Stoics to say Reason should oppose Passion rather than order it, while others like the Romantics believed that Passion displaces Reason, as in the maxim "follow your heart".

Reason has been seen as cold, an "enemy of mystery and ambiguity", a slave, or judge, of the passions, notably in the work of David Hume, and more recently of Freud.

Reason asked what really can be said about what is natural to mankind.

Reason was particularly influenced by the great Muslim philosopher Al-Farabi.