Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Reason

The Houyhnhnms' Maxim is, "to cultivate Reason, and to be wholly governed by it." What does this mean

1 comments:

The Kings said...

They believed they "were endowed with a general disposition to all virtues and have no conceptions of what is evil" and that "reason taught them to affirm or deny only where they were certain." There was no wrangling and quarrels and "disputes with plausibility on both sides of a question."