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. . . splintering faith and reason has also created pathologies of reason. Benedict notes that reason's "turning away from the ultimate questions has rendered it insignificant and boring" precisely because it "has resigned its competence where the keys to life are concerned: good and evil, death and immortality." It also results in absurdities such as scientists arguing that "man . . . does not possess any liberty," while ignoring the fact that scientific research cannot even occur without people freely choosing to pursue it. Reason loses its orientation, Benedict stresses, when "the guiding principle is that man's capability determines what he does": i.e., the non sequitur that if you know how to do something, you are permitted to do it. Many of these thoughts were crystallized in Benedict's famous 2006 Regensburg lecture. Unfortunately, the controversies generated by the somewhat puzzling reactions to this speech distracted attention away from Regensburg's real import. Certainly Islam's theological dilemmas were a focus of the speech, but the Regensburg lecture—which will surely be remembered as being as important an address as Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard speech—also concerned Europe's crisis of faith and reason. . . .
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