It is the standard of the true, the false, and the arbitrary.
Things are what they are, independent of our or anyone else's feelings, ideas, wishes, desires, and emotions.
Or, in the immortal words of Aristotle: A is A. To be, is to be something: finite, limited, and non-contradictory.
Reason is man's means of survival
Reason is man's only means of knowing reality, upon which his survival in reality depends.
Whether man is alone on a desert island, scurrying around with a pack of savages, or living in a city of billions: man must think -- and then act on his thinking, if life is his goal.
The
individual is sovereign
Man is a rational animal, and reality dictates that to survive, man must be rational -- by choice.
Man is a being of free will. Man can choose to think, drift, or evade -- but choose he must. His thoughts determine: his character, his values, his emotions, and his actions, and so his thoughts determine his destiny.
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