Faith Versus Reason
Many persons who consider themselves to be intellectual conservatives do so from a religious or faith based attitude. They tie capitalism to faith.
Even though they seem to be on the side of reason,they are not. It is an illusion."The faculty that perceives, identifies, and integrates the evidence of reality as provided by man's senses, is reason.To base one's convictions on reason is to base them on the facts of reality.Faith is the acceptance of an idea without evidence or proof, or in spite of evidence to the contrary."
To rest one's advocacy of capitalism on faith , is to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies, which to an Objectivist would be intolorable.
Nathaniel Branden, Objectivist Newsletter, March 1962
Even though they seem to be on the side of reason,they are not. It is an illusion."The faculty that perceives, identifies, and integrates the evidence of reality as provided by man's senses, is reason.To base one's convictions on reason is to base them on the facts of reality.Faith is the acceptance of an idea without evidence or proof, or in spite of evidence to the contrary."
To rest one's advocacy of capitalism on faith , is to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies, which to an Objectivist would be intolorable.
Nathaniel Branden, Objectivist Newsletter, March 1962
