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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... question of what reality is like , or with what it is not like . One who is interested in these questions is surely concerned with the art or science of inference . One's ability to frame questions of such generality is a product of ...
... questions in English Canada is part of the peculiarity which has influenced philosophy in English Canada . Pre- sumably , if the British had cared enough they could have settled the answers to these questions in London and sent young ...
... questions and it seems improbable that value questions depend upon exposure to events and to practice - though it is true that one will frequently come to value activities only after one has learned to do them well . Again , what one ...
... question which is , itself , intelligible has answers upon which reason ( in some sense ) bears and so on . One may call these second - order positions - positions which are about the extent ( or manner ) to which one can do philosophy ...
... 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 vista gives us some insight into the conditions under which ...
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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The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English ... Leslie Armour,Elizabeth Trott Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |