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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... sense and the circumstances are comprised of events and institutions which we know as English Canada . " Philosophy , " " history , " and even " Canada , ” are problematic terms . The enterprise involved in delineating their relation is ...
... sense . But it would have seemed odd to have ignored Bucke and Lighthall even though many professional philosophers will find their deviation from the accepted canons sufficiently great to justify their omission . We have been concerned ...
... sense of how the line is drawn between illusion and reality . To change one's mind about any of these things is , to an important extent , to change oneself . If one makes enough such changes one becomes ( in a fairly intelligible sense ) ...
... sense that we have been talking about it here , is not common . It has been a part of what we call Western civilization since about 500 B.C. Indian philosophy ( if we confine our attention , again , to philosophy in the same sense ) may ...
... sense of the plurality and confusion that confronted them . Greek philosophy was not a childish form of political philosophy or social economics but an urgent effort to come to grips with an underlying reality for only by finding such a ...
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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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