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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... doctrine than of emotion , brought the tradition of public reasoning with them . The Irish , used to a society in conflict in which the practice of explaining oneself to others was normal enough , came with much the same tradition . The ...
... doctrine and these are all further reasons which bear on the question of why issues in philosophy are not exactly like those in geography or in physics . Even if we stop short of deciding whether all that is finally true or not , such a ...
... - ended version of Hegelian doctrine is found in the writings of men like Peter Kauffman and J. B. Stallo and offers a more authentic American vision . Out of such mixtures of uncritical assumption and critical recon- 14 THE FACES OF ...
... doctrine is almost certainly , historically , less important than the tendency of his philosophy ( like that of the logical positivists ) to cast doubt on the efficacy of reason . Once absolved from the obligation to reason about ...
... doctrine called " the Canadian theory " or some great figure called “ the Canadian philosopher . ” On the contrary , he will find many doctrines , a variety of figures of more or less weight - frequently disagreeing with one another and ...
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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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Reason Religion and the Idea of Nature | 321 |
The SelfTranscendence of Reason and Evolutionary Mysticism | 361 |
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