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title: "Conclusion"
canonical: "https://spiritual-rationality.org"
pages: 2
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# Conclusion {#top}

*The complete “Conclusion” chapter of https://spiritual-rationality.org, as one markdown file — its index page followed by every page beneath it, in reading order. The whole book in one file: https://spiritual-rationality.org/llms-full.txt*

## Notation {#notation}

Source notation, not standard markdown:

- `::gloss[…]` — definition of the heading above it. Invisible on the site;
  it is the hover card for links to that heading. Read as a definition.
- `::gloss[…]{#id}` — defines a term holding its own anchor. `#id` is the
  link target; the block below is what it annotates.
- `::nogloss` — heading deliberately has no definition.
- `:::note[…]` / `:::info[…]` — callouts (MyST/Docusaurus admonitions).

Footnotes are GFM. Heading anchors are GitHub-style slugs, written out as
`{#id}` in the combined files.

## Contents {#contents}

- [Conclusion](#conclusion)
  - [Spiritual Rationality](#conclusion-spiritual-rationality)

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# Conclusion {#conclusion}

*Page: https://spiritual-rationality.org/book/conclusion — also at `/md/conclusion.md`. Anchors within this section are prefixed `conclusion--`.*

This chapter reiterates and elaborates on the main thesis of the book.

*In this chapter:*

- [🔨 Spiritual Rationality](#conclusion-spiritual-rationality)

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# Spiritual Rationality {#conclusion-spiritual-rationality}

*Page: https://spiritual-rationality.org/book/conclusion/spiritual-rationality — also at `/md/conclusion/spiritual-rationality.md`. Anchors within this section are prefixed `conclusion-spiritual-rationality--`.*

*Spiritual rationality*, in my view, is composed of three main considerations. I want a spirituality which satisfies all of them, and I believe you should too. It should be:

**Sane**: truthful, accurate, not mistaken or false about the world or the contents of our minds, and furthemore conducive to sane communities and sane societies.

**Effective**: able to achieve the goals it advertises, and both calibrated and honest about how successfully it can do that.

**True** (perhaps, **right**, perhaps also just **good**): true to ourselves and to our values, both not denying our values or trying to "transcend" them, but also able to discard chaff, confusion, and ignorance about the nature of experience and value. Moreso, deeply beautiful and aligned with goodness, as best as we yet understand it.

This list is not necessarily comprehensive, and I'm not quite happy with any of these words, but they'll do for now. Once again, as I've said over and over, see also [nebulosity](/md/metaphysics/eternalism-nihilism.md#nebulosity).

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