Reason and culture : the historic role of rationality and rationalism
著者
書誌事項
Reason and culture : the historic role of rationality and rationalism
（New perspectives on the past）
Blackwell, 1992
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全40件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Bibliography: p. [183]-185
Includes index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
-
ISBN 9780631134794
内容説明
Since the 17th century, Western society has had a turbulent relationship with Reason. Descartes set out to reorganize all his opinions in the light of Reason, allowing, as Pascal bitterly reproached him, nothing else. In the course of the centuries which followed, the relationship with Reason became the object of a vigorous, often passionate debate. David Hume declared Reason to be impotent: Immanuel Kant observed that men suffered from 'misology' as the result of their disappointed expectations from Reason: G.W.F. Hegel declared that the main insight of philosophy consisted of the realization that Reason masterminded and guided all history.The debate has not remained restricted to philosophy. Max Weber, the most influential modern sociologist, was obsessed with the distinctive role of Reason in Western society, and the part it played in engendering industrialism. Social anthropologists have been preoccupied both with the universality and the diversity of conceptual thought. Emile Durkheim taught them to ask why all men were rational, whilst Max Weber taught sociologists to ask why some men were more rational than others.
This book brings together the philosophical, historical and sociological discussions of rationality and strives to make clear the underlying issues and the continuity of the debate in the various disciplines.
目次
1. Reason and Culture: The Legacy of Descartes 2. The Roots of Compulsion: The Legacy of Durkheim 3. The Confrontations of Reason: The Heirs of Descartes 4. The Mundane Enemies of Reason: From Hegel to Freud 5. Ailments of Reason: The Descent from Popper 6. Counter Currents: Some Consequences of Wittgenstein 7. Rationality as a way of life: Reason and the Emergence of Modern Society 8. Prometheus Perplexed: Rationality and Subjectivity 9. Recapitulation.
- 巻冊次
-
: pbk ISBN 9780631137115
内容説明
The disparity between the history of the idea of rationality - from Hobbes to Rawls - and what constitutes and has constituted "reasonable" behaviour form the subject of this book. The institutions of state - government, the law, the military - are based, in the West, on the principle that human beings, if not always reasonable, are at any rate capable of being rational: those who serve the state usually believe that their actions and decisions are also informed by this principle. This is the theory, but how then do we explain, for example, why it has so frequently happened that two countries supposedly acting in their own self-interest embark on a war which does both parties considerable harm? In the course of his investigation, Professor Gellner examines and compares the institutions and ideas of secular societies in which reason is believed to inform belief with those of avowedly theocratic (including Moslem) societies where belief informs reason.
目次
1. Reason and Culture: The Legacy of Descartes 2. The Roots of Compulsion: The Legacy of Durkheim 3. The Confrontations of Reason: The Heirs of Descartes 4. The Mundane Enemies of Reason: From Hegel to Freud 5. Ailments of Reason: The Descent from Popper 6. Counter Currents: Some Consequences of Wittgenstein 7. Rationality as a way of life: Reason and the Emergence of Modern Society 8. Prometheus Perplexed: Rationality and Subjectivity 9. Recapitulation.
「Nielsen BookData」 より
