The Retreat of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Retreat of Reason write by Anthony Browne. This book was released on 2006. The Retreat of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses political correctness and the freedom of debate.
The Retreat of Reason
The Retreat of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Retreat of Reason write by Ingmar Persson. This book was released on 2005-11-03. The Retreat of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar Persson's book resumes this project, which has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. But his conclusions are very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity, and our responsibility,Persson shows that the aim of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting the maximization and just distribution of fulfilment for all. Persson also argues that neither the aim of living rationally nor any of the fulfilmentaims can be rejected as less rational than any other. We thus face a dilemma of either having to enter a retreat of reason, insulated from everyday attitudes, or making reason retreat from its aspiration to be the sole controller of our attitudes.The Retreat of Reason explores three areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment. Persson contends that living rationally requires us to give up, first, our temporal biases; secondly, our bias towards ourselves; and, thirdly, our responsibility to the extent that it involves the notion of desert and desert-entailing notions. But giving up these attitudes is so overwhelmingly hard that the effort to do so not only makesour own lives less fulfilling, but also obstructs our efficient pursuit of the moral aim of promoting a maximum of justly distributed fulfilment.Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. The Retreat of Reason challenges and disturbs some of our most fundamental ideas about ourselves.
Science and the Retreat from Reason
Science and the Retreat from Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science and the Retreat from Reason write by Manjit Kumar. This book was released on 2016. Science and the Retreat from Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Science and the Retreat from Reason
Science and the Retreat from Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science and the Retreat from Reason write by John Gillott. This book was released on 1997. Science and the Retreat from Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks for the roots of the public's waning faith in science. Providing a clear and accessible introduction to key areas of modern scientific thought, the authors challenge our new fear and loathing of science.
The Retreat of Reason
The Retreat of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Retreat of Reason write by Ingmar Persson. This book was released on 2005-11-03. The Retreat of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar Persson's book resumes this project, which has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. But his conclusions are very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity, and our responsibility, Persson shows that the aim of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting the maximization and just distribution of fulfilment for all. Persson also argues that neither the aim of living rationally nor any of the fulfilment aims can be rejected as less rational than any other. We thus face a dilemma of either having to enter a retreat of reason, insulated from everyday attitudes, or making reason retreat from its aspiration to be the sole controller of our attitudes. The Retreat of Reason explores three areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment. Persson contends that living rationally requires us to give up, first, our temporal biases; secondly, our bias towards ourselves; and, thirdly, our responsibility to the extent that it involves the notion of desert and desert-entailing notions. But giving up these attitudes is so overwhelmingly hard that the effort to do so not only makes our own lives less fulfilling, but also obstructs our efficient pursuit of the moral aim of promoting a maximum of justly distributed fulfilment. Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. The Retreat of Reason challenges and disturbs some of our most fundamental ideas about ourselves.
