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Are we dupes or savants to be using reason?

What is the genesis of 'reason' did it emanate like some dazzling insight out of the Enlightenment? I mean, is it reasonable to ask what and where reason originated from. We are post Enlightenment and reason, as some argue is a tenet of the Enlightenment. These day some would argue that reason or common sense are power tools. By way of example when people say 'you are not being reasonable' or 'for goodness sake use your common sense', many now argue that such encouragements are velvet glove power tools. So how did reason originate, surely to come into existence it had to define itself against another reason, whose truth and identity was also assigned by reason, thus giving reason the false appearance of originating from itself. Follow this line of thinking are we are sleep walking into infinite regress till we arrive at the causa sui argument (Reason? it originated from itself) which can't be the case. So 'reason' is not some stand alone thinking tool, it must have emanated from self interested parties and we are ether dupes or savants to employ it, depending on what voices of reason we listen to

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