On Reason and Belief by Jenn Zhu
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On Reason and Belief
Jenn Zhu
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favor, while some people don’t have good education and
failed to learn about good reasons, or some people are simply
not born as reasonable beings due to some abnormal
biological factors, So it seems that the good education on
birth for infants, secondary school for youth and continual
education for adults in more expanded areas should be
emphasized. And at last, but not least, a good main-stream
culture which promotes a cultured, reasonable and
cooperative social environment is extremely important.
Diversity is necessary, while a pillar of main-stream culture
should be erected to attract all other cultures to it, which
wouldn’t shun the latter, but make them more comfortably fit
into a new cultural environment and become the effective
supporting elements to make a diversified, however, stronger
and unified culture with greater capacity and better influence
among nationalities.
Theoretically speaking, reason is the key to open the door of
problems and fix the problematic relationship among humans.
Probably no one would object that.. The issue is whether or
not that the “reason” held by you would be the same as by
theirs. Everybody would argue that their reasons make more
sense than others’. The solder has reasons of weapon, the
politician has reasons of policy, merchants has reasons of
business, the lawyer has the reasons of law, the educator has
the reasons of education. When people fall into argument,
they are standing on different grounds. Is it because the
grounds of the reasons are different? Probably not, reasons
need apply logic, while the logic of humans are pretty much
the same, as the logic inherent in the mathematics is
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