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The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 1062 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
"The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress" by George Santayana consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science. The work is considered to be the most complete expression of Santayana's moral philosophy, which is strongly influenced by the materialism of Democritus and the refined ethics of Aristotle, with a special emphasis on the natural development of ideal ends.
The Nightmare of Reason
Author | : Ernst Pawel |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 142993333X |
A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.
The Life of Reason; Or, the Phases of Human Progress
Author | : Santayana George |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780526351077 |
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The Retreat of Reason
Author | : Ingmar Persson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2005-11-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199276900 |
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.
Technosystem
Author | : Andrew Feenberg |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0674971787 |
We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.
The Life of Reason Or the Phases of Human Progress (Classic Reprint)
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2015-07-05 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781330726631 |
Excerpt from The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress Experience has repeatedly confirmed that wen known maxim of Bacon's, that a little philoso new phy inclineth man's mind to atheism, certainly but depth in philosophy bringeth men's imam minds about to religion. In every age the most comprehensive thinkers have found in the religion of their time and country something they could accept, interpreting and illustrating that religion so as to give it depth and universal application. Even the heretics and atheists, if they have had profundity, turn out after a while to be forerunners of some new orthodoxy. What they rebel against is a religion alien to their na ture; they are atheists only by accident, and rela tively to a convention which inwardly offends them, but they yearn mightily in their own souls after the religious acceptance of a world interpreted in their own fashion. So it appears in the end that their atheism and loud protestation were in fact the hastier part of their thought, since what embold ened them to deny the poor world's faith was that they were too impatient to understand it. Indeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.