Leigh Jenco: Are Chinese thinkers irrational – Part 2
This is a discreet (Note 1) follow up: Prof Leigh Jenco let me know that she held to a three part distinction: rational, non-rational and irrational. Western philosophy is rational, while Chinese philosophy is non-rational. Frankly this concept of ‘non-rational’ seems merely a polite version of ‘irrational’. In all my life I have never heard of non-rational thinking. My response to her was: “I think you will find it untenable to maintain a distinction between rational and non rational…