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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... position is that the proposed substitution of reason for faith and intuition just cannot be made . Another is that ... positions - positions which are about the extent ( or manner ) to which one can do philosophy at all . In general ...
... position was that of the positivists . It had appeal in the English - speaking world where the educated élite in the universities had suffered little from the depression and felt itself fairly well protected against the physical ...
... position — so that idealism might be " the German philosophy ” and materialism “ the Greek philosophy . " There are British idealists , Ger- man idealists , Greek idealists , and French idealists of various periods . What is likely to ...
... positions . But it does not really mean much , apart from the details , to say that someone is an idealist or a rationalist ... position . Indeed , a philosophical analysis of it would very likely have made it less believable even if the ...
... position which comes naturally once one accepts a certain view of social change . If one were to look for counter examples , one ought to look , seemingly , to the Liberal Party — an organization which in origin was the champion of ...
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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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