There have been many self-proclaimed rationalists in the past, and to be sure, there will be many more in the future. Unfortuately, rationalism has often been dismissed as useless due to its nature as a tool: Logic, by definition, is a tool.
However, that is downplaying it rather hyperbolically. Logic is not merely a tool, but it is in fact a system for life, a system by which one can draw conclusions about the environment, society, and universe around them.
The only trouble with logic is that it can be misled; after all, the phrase "garbage in, garbage out" applies just as well to logical processes as it does to computer processes (which, incidentally, are logical). The solution to this problem is clear, however: we must find data which is not "garbage." We must investigate long, hard, and far to find out what goal, ultimately, we are to pursue.
This investigation, this pursuit of knowledge, if successful, can be fed through the tool that is logic.
Perhaps, then, in this way, we will achieve an understanding of something greater.
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