Ideal of Rationality: A Defense, Within Reason
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Ideal of Rationality: A Defense, Within Reason
By (Author) Stephen Nathanson
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
25th February 2000
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
121
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 165mm, Height 241mm
659g
Description
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.
