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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... thought processes of which one happens to approve . And it has never been particularly easy to put one's finger on the distinctive features of life and culture in English Canada . No one has ever been very satisfied with any definition ...
... thought that social change was the outcome of individual effort and that the political surface took precedence over the social sub - structure . Mackenzie King sometimes thought of himself as the businessman's friend . But he also thought ...
... thought of in many different ways : ( 1 ) as a formal foundation out of which knowledge may be spun ; ( 2 ) as a kind of force for determining and showing what ought to be taken seriously and what derided ; ( 3 ) as a device , arbitrary ...
... thought that there was anything odd in posing this confrontation . For the most part , however , philosophers in Canada saw the conflict as one to be resolved . Surely there were different principles which must be accorded different ...
... thought retained both its vitality and its openness to enlarged understandings . The coming of another world war seems not to have changed the mood appreciably , at least so far as the written record goes . It is difficult to establish ...
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 |