@Reconstructo,
I see 3 main lines of objections to statements like the "real is rational."
The first is significance. A person might say "that might be true but it's really only poetry." I think this person is right, except I also feel that they undervalue "poetry." After all, once we are fed and sheltered, and our loved ones are safe, what is life
for?
The second line comes from a person who fines this sort of issue fascinating, but simply doesn't agree with this or that particular notion.
The third line is, in my book, a dodge, motivated by an allergy to
grand philosophy, an addiction to the
masochistic negation of anything that isn't reductive and puritanical. These self-proclaimed garbage men don't exactly have, in my nostrils at least, the sweetest smell. I think we are as likely to find fanatics in this third group as we are among the metaphysical type. To reject metaphysics out of hand is a metaphysical leap of faith. But that's just the opinion of a poet.
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Let them play among themselves, these haters of poetry. How soon before they are utterly bored with one another? Where will all these negative signs find a home, in such an absence of
ideas?