Thursday, April 10, 2008

Reason or Experience????

The Judeo-Christian tradition is profoundly experiential, not to the exclusion of reason, but as the precondition of it.  That is, the material upon which reason exerts itself is precisely those experiences of ours which need ordering and coherence.”
F. Earle Fox.  "The Spiritual Core of Experiential Educations" The Theory of Experiential Education. 

1 comment:

Kin said...

Interesting statement.

I'm not sure I agree yet. This will lead to some thinking on my part. I will return with my answer.