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The edge of reason : a rational skeptic in an irrational world /
"Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: THE JUDGE; chapter one The Eternal God argument; 1. Big pictures, broad brushes; 2. Choose your bedrock; 3. The holism of reason; 4. Between a rock and hard node; 5. Reason as apologetics; 6. The dim light of reason; chapter two Science for humans; 1. Fitting the facts; 2. Scientific method; 3. The feeling of truth; 4. The impurity of science; chapter three Rationality and judgement; 1. Philosophy's dirty secret; 2. Logic and judgement; 3. The constraints of logic.
- 4. Scarce deductionsPART II: THE GUIDE; chapter four Lives of the mind; 1. The thinker and the thought; 2. The stories of our lives; chapter five The challenge of psychology; 1. Hot heads; 2. Not so fast; 3. Gendered reason; 4. One- trick ponies; chapter six Guided by reason; 1. Objectivity; 2. Five characteristics of the objective; 3. The boundaries of the rational; 4. Rational catholicism; 5. Ending the truth wars; PART III: THE MOTIVATOR; chapter seven Rational morality; 1. Rationally bound ethics; 2. Whose reasons?; 3. From facts to values; 4. Reasons for altruism.
- 5. The claims of consistencychapter eight Scientific morality; 1. The Moral Landscape; 2. Science contra morality; 3. Science and morality; chapter nine The claims of reason; 1. Reason's own 'ought'; 2. The rationality of the moral ought; 3. The passion of the philosopher; PART IV: THE KING; chapter ten The rational state; 1. Socrates' mistake; 2. The truth in conservatism; 3. Anarchism and communism; 4. Homo economicus; 5. Fatal traction; chapter eleven Political reason; 1. Political pluralism; 2. Threats to pluralism; 3. Secularism; 4. Secular pluralism renewed; Conclusion: using reason; 1. The uses of skepticism; 2. What is at stake; 3. A user's guide; Notes; Bibliography; Index.