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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... Social Policy Wilfred Currier Keirstead , John Macdonald , and Herbert Leslie Stewart TWELVE 388 The Fragmentation of Reason Rupert Lodge and Henry Wright THIRTEEN 405 Reason , History , and the Social Sciences George Brett , John ...
... social phenomena — and so we have called it The Faces of Reason . If philosophy is connected with reason and reason is connected with culture , then philosophy has unavoidable social implications . One may become free of one's ...
... social forces which threatened their tightly - knit communities . For many Irishmen , Canada offered an alternative to being on the losing side in economic , social , and religious conflict . For English dissenters and Scottish Baptists ...
... social class not so used to having to explain itself . They turned out to have less influence on the development of the colleges and universities in gen- eral and on academic philosophy in particular than did the Scots , but even they ...
... social or technological change , or even highly traumatic indi- vidual occurrences . One might very easily think that no human being lives under conditions so stable and satisfactory as to render him immune from the temptation to ...
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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