The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada; 1850-1959Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 14.12.1981 - 548 Seiten The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the period after 1950. What is distinctive in Canadian philosophy, say the authors, is the concept of reason and the uses to which it is put. Reason has interacted with experience in a new world and a cold climate to create a distinctive Canadian community. The diversity of political, geographic, social, and religious factors has fostered a particular kind of thinking, particular ways of reasoning and communicating. Rather than one grand, overarching Canadian way of thinking, there are “many faces of reason,” “a kind of philosophic federalism”. The book has two dimensions: “ it is a continuos story which makes a point about the development of philosophical reason in the Canadian context....it is a reference work which may be consulted by readers interested in particular figures, ideas, movements, or periods.” |
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... become more so since its com- pletion . Interest in Canadian schol- arship , both past and present , is increasing yearly , particularly amongst graduate students . Many times I have encountered students in education , history ...
... become free of one's presuppositions only by bringing them clearly to light and by understanding their force . In La trahison des clercs , Julien Benda deplored the sell - out of the intellectuals in our time.2 Instead of keeping their ...
... become more so . Even the teaching of classical languages pro- vided an opportunity to muse on the contrast of pagan and Christian virtue . We are a little embarrassed at the controversies and report them in muted tones but some of the ...
... becomes ( in a fairly intelligible sense ) someone else . If one sees this , some issues about philosophy become clear . One philosophical position is that the proposed substitution of reason for faith and intuition just cannot be made ...
... become too subtle . It might well be that Christianity , as then understood , could not consistently be accommodated ... becomes not a device for rendering one's opponents prostrate or a device for excusing one's own sins but a constant ...
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Reason and Intuition | 61 |
Reason and Morality | 85 |
Reason Authority and the Structure of Experience | 105 |
Reason Culture and Power | 176 |
Reason as Social Understanding | 216 |
Reason as Constitutive of Knowledge and Reality | 269 |
Reason Regionalism and Social Policy | 388 |
The Fragmentation of Reason | 405 |
Reason History and the Social Sciences | 430 |
Faith and Reason | 478 |
The Idea of Reason and the Canadian Situation | 507 |
AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX | 517 |
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530 | |
Reason Religion and the Idea of Nature | 321 |
The SelfTranscendence of Reason and Evolutionary Mysticism | 361 |
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