"Mystical trends... phenomenological emotionalism, the so-called humanistic hermeneutics, and the modern existential philosophy have played a prominet role in the confusion that pervaded European thought. It is no mere coincidence that the most celebrated philosophers of the third Reich were outstanding disciples of Husserl... When reason surrenders it supremacy to dark, equivocal emotions, no dam is able to stem the rising tide of the affective stream" Hlakhic Mind- p.53
"It need hardly be stressed that this reduction of religion into some recondite, subjective current is absolutely perrilous. It frees every dark passion and every animal impulse in man. Indeed, it is of greater urgency for religion to cultivate objectivity than perhaps for any other bracnch of human culture. If G-d is not the source of the most objectified norm, faith in Him is nothing but an empty phrase. Pluralism by no means indictaes escapism and romanticism in knowledge. If cognitive approaches to reality exist apart from the scientific, then they must be based upon strictly logico-epistemological principles. They cannot be permitted to run amok in a subjective world. It is indeed unfortunate that pluralism, originally well intended, has, in certain doctrines, assumed proportions that undermine the most elementary principles of reason. To avert misery and confusiom the human mind would do well were it to approach the subject realm with far greater caution and reseve than it has in the past" Halakhic mind, p.55
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