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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... dian philosophical theories . I was happy to provide assistance . It is our hope that this book will be of use to future scholars , not only of six of the happiest years of my pro- fessional existence. xviii THE FACES OF REASON.
... existence . This book is only part of the work I was able to com- plete in those years . I hope that it shows the results of an atmosphere of serious and critical understand- ing which my colleagues there pro- vided , and that they will ...
... existence of God or about what that existence means to human beings . Experience , education , skill at reasoning in a given area are fre- quent explanations for human disagreement but they generally do not explain the kinds of ...
... existence of God one may well begin to see not just why those argu- ments succeed or fail but why arguments of a whole general kind must succeed or fail . When one does that one is usually falling back on one's logic or one's general ...
... as a unified whole . But this kind of conflict is one of those in which philosophy seems a natural activity . John Stuart Mill responded by investigating the nature of reality , the existence of God 12 THE FACES OF REASON.
Inhalt
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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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