Download or read book The Meaning of Rationalism written by Charles Watts and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meaning of Rationalism and Other Essays written by Charles Watts and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays written by Michael Oakeshott and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of 'reason' in rationalist politics. Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly 'scientific' or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. "Rationalism in politics," says Oakeshott, "involves a misconception with regard to the nature of human knowledge." History has shown that it produces unexpected, often disastrous results. "Having cut himself off from the traditional knowledge of his society, and denied the value of any education more extensive than a training in a technique of analysis," the Rationalist succeeds only in undermining the institutions that hold civilized society together. In this regard, rationalism in politics is "a corruption of the mind."
Download or read book The Meaning of Rationalism and Other Essays written by Charles WATTS (Secretary of the National Secular Society.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays In Rationalism written by Charles Robert Newman and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the realm of intellectual inquiry with Charles Robert Newman's "Essays in Rationalism," a thought-provoking collection that challenges conventional wisdom and invites readers to explore the boundaries of reason and logic. In this captivating anthology, Newman delves into a diverse range of topics, offering incisive analysis and compelling arguments that shed light on some of the most pressing questions of human existence. From the nature of truth and morality to the limits of scientific knowledge, each essay provides readers with a window into Newman's rigorous intellect and keen philosophical insight. Themes of skepticism, empiricism, and the pursuit of truth permeate the pages of "Essays in Rationalism," as Newman grapples with the complexities of the human condition and the challenges of navigating a world shaped by competing ideologies and conflicting worldviews. Through his meticulous reasoning and clear-eyed analysis, Newman challenges readers to critically examine their own beliefs and assumptions, urging them to embrace the principles of rational inquiry and intellectual honesty. With each essay, he invites readers on a journey of self-discovery and enlightenment, encouraging them to think deeply and engage critically with the world around them. Critically acclaimed for its clarity, depth, and originality, "Essays in Rationalism" is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, logic, and the pursuit of knowledge. Newman's insights continue to resonate with readers of all backgrounds, inspiring lively debate and further exploration of the fundamental questions that shape our understanding of the universe. Don't miss your chance to engage with the ideas and arguments presented in "Essays in Rationalism." Let Newman's compelling prose and rigorous reasoning challenge your assumptions and expand your horizons. Grab your copy now and embark on a journey of intellectual discovery that will leave you questioning the very foundations of your beliefs.
Download or read book The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-01-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss's previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss's mature work. "[These essays] display the incomparable insight and remarkable range of knowledge that set Strauss's works apart from any other twentieth-century philosopher's."—Charles R. Kesler, National Review
Download or read book Pragmatism and Four Essays from the Meaning of Truth written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Was History written by Anthony Grafton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed. Elegant and accessible, What Was History? is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.
Download or read book White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice written by Ruth Garrett Millikan and published by Bradford Book. This book was released on 1995 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Millikan's extended argument for a biological view of the study of cognition in Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories caught the attention of the philosophical community. Universally regarded as an important, even brilliant, work, its complexity and dense presentation made it difficult to plumb. This collection of essays serves both as an introduction to that much discussed volume and as an extension and application of Millikan's central and controversial themes, especially in the philosophy of psychology. The title essay, referring to the White Queen's practice of exercising her mind by believing impossible things, discusses meaning rationalism and argues that rationality is not in the head, indeed, that there is no legitimate interpretation under which logical possibility and necessity are known a priori. Nor are there any laws of rational psychology. Rationality is not a lawful occurrence but a biological norm that is effected in an integrated head-world system under biologically ideal conditions. In other essays, Millikan clarifies her views on the nature of mental representation, explores whether human thought is a product of natural selection, examines the nature of behavior as studied by the behavioral sciences, and discusses the issues of individualism in psychology, psychological explanation, indexicality in thought, what knowledge is, and the realism/antirealism debate.
Download or read book Experience and its Modes written by Michael Oakeshott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world.
Download or read book Post Rationalism written by Tom Eyers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, Luce Irigaray, André Green and Jacques-Alain Miller. The Cahiers served as a testing ground for the combination of diverse intellectual sources indicative of the period, including the influential reinvention of Freud and Marx undertaken by Lacan and Althusser, and the earlier post-rationalist philosophy of science pioneered by Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Alexandre Koyré. This book is a wide-ranging analysis of the intellectual foundations of structuralism, re-connecting the work of young post-Lacanian and post-Althusserian theorists with their predecessors in French philosophy of science. Tom Eyers provides an important corrective to standard histories of the period, focussing on the ways in which French epistemological writing of the 1930s and 1940s - especially that of Bachelard and Canguilhem - laid the ground for the emergence of structuralism in the 1950s and 1960s, thus questioning the standard historical narrative that posits structuralism as emerging chiefly in reaction to phenomenology and existentialism.
Download or read book Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism written by Corine Pelluchon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Leo Strauss's critique of modernity and his return to tradition, especially Maimonides, help us to save democracy from its inner dangers? In this book, Corine Pelluchon examines Strauss's provocative claim that the conception of man and reason in the thought of the Enlightenment is self-destructive and leads to a new tyranny. Writing in a direct and lucid style, Pelluchon avoids the polemics that have characterized recent debates concerning the links between Strauss and neoconservatives, particularly concerns over Strauss's relation to the extreme right in Germany. Instead she aims to demystify the origins of Strauss's thought and present his relationship to German and Jewish thought in the early twentieth century in a manner accessible not just to the small circles devoted to the study of Strauss, but to a larger public. Strauss's critique of modernity is, she argues, constructive; he neither condemns modernity as a whole nor does he desire a retreat back to the Ancients, where slaves existed and women were not considered citizens. The question is to know whether we can learn something from the Ancients and from Maimonides—and not merely about them.
Download or read book Out of Error written by David Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there has been some modest advance, since Karl Popper's death in 1994, in the general understanding of his critical rationalist theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, there is still widespread resistance both to it and to the recognition of the magnitude of his contribution. Popper long ago diagnosed the logical problems of traditional enlightenment rationalism (as did some irrationalists), but instead of pretending that they are readily solved or embracing irrational defeatism (as do postmodernists), he provided a cogent and liberating rationalist alternative. This book promotes, defends, criticizes, and refines this alternative. David Miller is the foremost exponent of the purist critical rationalist doctrine and here presents his mature views, discussing the role that logic and argument play in the growth of knowledge, criticizing the common understanding of argument as an instrument of justification, persuasion or discovery and instead advocating the critical rationalist view that only criticism matters. Miller patiently and thoroughly undoes the damage done by those writers who attack critical rationalism by invoking the sterile mythology of induction and justification that it seeks to sweep away. In addition his new material on the debate on verisimilitude is essential reading for all working in this field.
Download or read book Essays in Rationalism written by Newman Charles Robert and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical Reason written by Julian Nida-Rümelin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice beyond consequentialism. He argues that consequentialism as a general theory of rational action fails and that this does not force us into the dichotomy teleology vs deontology. The unity of practical reason can be saved without consequentialism. In the process, he presents insightful criticism of standard models of action and rational choice. This will help readers discover a new perspective on the theory of rationality. The approach is radical: It transcends the reductive narrowness of instrumental rationality without denying its practical impact. Actions do exist that are outlined in accordance to utility maximizing or even self-interest maximizing. Yet, not all actions are to be understood in these terms. Actions oriented around social roles, for example, cannot count as irrational only because there is no known underlying maximizing heuristic. The concept of bounded rationality tries to embed instrumental rationality into a form of life to highlight limits of our cognitive capabilities and selective perceptions. However, the agent is still left within the realm of cost-benefit-reasoning. The idea of social preferences or meta-preferences cannot encompass the plurality of human actions. According to the author they ignore the plurality of reasons that drive agency. Hence, they coerce agency in fitting into a theory that undermines humanity. His theory of structural rationality acknowledges lifeworld patterns of interaction and meaning.
Download or read book Essays in Rationalism written by Charles Robert Newman and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the intellectual realm of reason and inquiry with "Essays in Rationalism" by Charles Robert Newman. This captivating collection of essays serves as a beacon of clarity and insight in a world often clouded by superstition and dogma. Newman, renowned for his sharp intellect and unwavering commitment to rational thought, offers readers a profound exploration of the human capacity for reason and the pursuit of truth. Spanning a wide range of topics, from science and philosophy to ethics and politics, each essay in this collection is a testament to Newman's rigorous analytical approach and profound understanding of the human condition. With incisive wit and eloquent prose, he dismantles fallacies, challenges assumptions, and champions the principles of critical thinking and intellectual freedom. "Essays in Rationalism" is not merely a collection of academic treatises; it is a call to arms for all those who value reason and evidence over blind faith and ignorance. Whether you are a seasoned philosopher or a curious seeker of knowledge, Newman's essays will inspire you to question, to inquire, and to embrace the transformative power of rational thought. Prepare to embark on a journey of intellectual discovery and enlightenment as you delve into the pages of "Essays in Rationalism." Let Newman be your guide as you navigate the complexities of the modern world with clarity, integrity, and a steadfast commitment to truth.
Download or read book New Essays on the Rationalists written by Rocco J. Gennaro and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
