Exploring the Boundaries of Human Reasoning

The Limits of Human Reason One may ask the question, “What actually is reason?” You can give multiple perceptions to the word’s definition. However, what reason is, in the human life, is the notion where one uses their own intuition through their experiences to therefore trust someone or something. Trust, otherwise known through reasoning, is depicted from faith, where which both work hand-in-hand with each other. Faith involves the act of will, or the commitment of the believer who wishes to be therefore trusted; otherwise to be given faith towards. Pope John Paul II, Camus, Schopenhauer and Pascal all have differing views, but they all show how we cannot lead meaningful lives.

For Pope John Paul II the limits of human reason are only up to the faith and beliefs of the person, for example faith and reasoning. But reasoning, like I just mentioned, comes through evidential intuition, which is attained through experiences that we have with one another. God plays a huge part in life according to

Faith can be seen as miracles or close to it. Reason is essentially the method of hypothesis testing. With testing, an event that wasn 't planned for can sometimes occur, though scientists won’t likely jump to conclusions that that event was a miracle, they will try to come to an answer for what actually happened. Like Pascal says these aren 't the same and they do not contradict one another.

For example the example given in class I would definitely put my life savings up for a 50/50 chance to be a billionaire. So in theory what is difference in putting faith in God? Essentially if there isn 't a God we wont be penalized for having faith in a higher power. “True Faith is not a wager but a relationship. But it can begin with a wager, just as a marriage can begin with a blind date.” (Pascal