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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... Trott. The Faces of REASON AN ESSAY ON PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE IN ENGLISH CANADA 1850-1950 LESLIE ARMOUR AND ELIZABETH TROTT Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Armour , Leslie , 1931-
... by their proximity in space and time . Geographically , however , Canada includes groups of people not very obviously influenced by that dominant culture— Englishmen in British Columbia , Americans in Alberta , and xxii THE FACES OF REASON.
... reason . We employ reason to extend the reach of our culture , to change it by assigning new meanings , and to resist encroachments by others . A central concern of nearly all ( perhaps all ) philosophers has been with the nature and ...
... reason , the inhabitants of English Canada have generally regarded the English as effete and not worth listening to , have refused to produce anything like a " charismatic ” politician ( would anyone really claim Mitch Hepburn for that ...
... reasons thus figures as a topic linked to every other topic . The single point which we would make if we could make only one point in this book would be this : Dominantly in English Canadian philosophy reason is used as a device to ...
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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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