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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... Structure of Experience John Clark Murray SIX 105 Reason , Culture , and Power Jacob Gould Schurman , The Philosopher as Office - Holder 176 SEVEN Reason as Social Understanding John Watson - Part I 216 EIGHT Reason as Constitutive of ...
... structures of logic . ) 3 The project which originated at the University of Waterloo has taken not the two years we supposed , but nearly ten . A grant from the Canada Council helped us begin the task but the manuscript which we hoped ...
... structure in which credal rivals could share a common home also made a certain notion of philosophy and of reason attractive . Men who responded to that intellectual climate would tend to stay and to thrive while others would tend to ...
... structure . Mackenzie King sometimes thought of himself as the businessman's friend . But he also thought of himself as the worker's friend . It is true that he took legal action after 1935 to undo much social reform and to return more ...
... structure . One may never quite demolish another's position ( for he may show how his view follows by another logic ) but one may claim a small measure of increasing clarity . The whole thrust of a communitarian , pluralistic society ...
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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