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" The ideal of rationality : "
Stephen Nathanson.
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701319
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b523508
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| Main Entry
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Nathanson, Stephen,1943-
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The ideal of rationality : : a defense, within reason /\ Stephen Nathanson.
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Chicago :: Open Court,, 1994.
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xv, 256 p. ;; 23 cm.
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0812692616 (cloth)
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: 0812692624 (pbk.)
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: 9780812692617 (cloth)
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: 9780812692624 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.
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Part I. The Life of Reason. 1. The Classical Ideal --- 2. John Barth's Critique of Pure Reason ---- Part II. Defects of the Classical Ideal. 3. Reason and Deliberation --- 4. Reason, Nihilism, and Objectivity --- 5. Reason, Knowledge, and Truth --- 6. The Ethics of Belief: A Jamesian View ---- Part III. Means/ End Rationality. Introduction ---- 7. The Means/End Conception of Rationality --- 8. Reasons, Motives, and Morality --- 9. Irrational Desires --- 10. Rational and Irrational Ends ---- Part VI. Acting for the Best. 11. Pleasures and Values --- 12. Evaluating Ideals --- 13. Rationality Within Reason ---- Part V. Afterwords. Afterword I: Rationality Revisited --- Afterword II: An Interview with the Author ---Afterword III: Rationality: Doubts and Theories --- Afterword IV: Final Thoughts.
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The Ideal of Rationality presents an evaluation of all the main varieties of rationalism, in clear and jargon-free language. Different notions of rationality - such as means-end, conception, hedonism, and the evil-avoidance view - are examined and rejected, in favor of the theory that to act rationally is to 'act for the best', a theory Nathanson characterizes as "critical pluralism". Among present-day thinkers whose ideas are scrutinized are Richard Brandt, Bernard Gert, Gilbert Harman, John Kekes, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, and John Rawls.
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Rationalism.
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Reason.
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149/.7
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B833.N37 1994
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