Faith over Logic - Erik Torenberg
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Only for the biggest decisions in life
Faith over Logic Only for the biggest decisions in life Erik Torenberg Jun 02, 2023 42 4 2 Share This week on Upstream, I spoke with Katherine Boyle about building companies, families, careers, and faiths. Fittingly, this week we’ll talk about taking leaps of faith. Recently we’ve talked about rationality and religion , and how de-popularizing religion hasn't made us more rational. We’ve also been emphasizing the limitations of rationality/reason , namely that reason tells us everything except how to live. We cannot derive an “ought” from “is”, as Hume would say. Or as Antonio Garcia Martinez
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