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Reason, Faith and the Road to “Alternative Facts” with Tara Smith
Ayn Rand Institute Live!
English - September 15, 2021 15:30 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsCourses Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Respect for reason has suffered a notable decline in recent decades. This lecture examines one of the central contributors: the attempt to evade the fundamental alternative between reason and faith. It surveys numerous ways in which people disparage reason (sometimes unwittingly) and explains why the prevalent tendency to fudge the reason/faith alternative cannot succeed—and has actually hastened reason’s decline.