Human, All Too Human, Part 31 summary
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In 31, the argument presents the illogical as necessary to humanity because it supports passions, language, art, religion, and much that makes life valuable. This challenges the goal of a purely logical nature by stressing both the damage such a change entails and the rational person's recurring need for an illogical relation to things.
What happens
- A thinker faces the disturbing recognition that humanity needs the illogical and gains much good from it.
- The argument locates the illogical within passions, language, art, religion, and sources of life's value.
- Removing these illogical foundations causes lasting damage to the valuable things they support.
- The argument rejects confidence in a purely logical nature and stresses what movement toward it costs.
- Even a highly rational person periodically needs an illogical basic relation to things.
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