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Redefining Reason

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Author : Bradley W. Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-11-16

Redefining Reason written by Bradley W. Patterson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-16 with Social Science categories.

Throughout the twentieth century, Western thinkers engaged in a politically charged, often highly personal and acrimonious debate over the mental and rational capacity of people from traditional nonliterate societies. The issue was a question of whether or not humanity was, at bottom, psychologically and rationally unified and equal as a species. Redefining Reason offers the first in-depth, critical history of that debate and its repercussions in modern Western thought and society. Divided into three sections, this book first sets the twentieth-century “primitive” mentality debate within its historical context so that it may be better understood. It then focuses on some of the highlights of the debate. The next section suggests that this debate was, in reality, a chapter itself in (or in an aspect of) a much larger story: the story of what may be appropriately referred to as the hyperrationalization of human society. To conclude, this book follows the debate into the twenty-first century and offers the clarification and resolutions developed in earlier chapters to contemporary students, scholars, and educated lay readers.

Redefining Reason

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Author : Bradley William Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-01

Redefining Reason written by Bradley William Patterson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01 with History categories.

Throughout the twentieth century, Western thinkers engaged in a politically charged, often highly personal and acrimonious debate over the mental and rational capacity of people from traditional non-literate societies. At issue was the question of whether or not humanity was, at bottom, psychologically and rationally unifi ed and equal as a species. Redefining Reason offers the fi rst in depth, critical history of that debate and its repercussions in modern Western thought and society. This debate, of course, is as old as humanity itself, and one that was never formally announced, coordinated or neatly staged. In tracing it through the twentieth century, this book focuses on what was the most thoughtful, interesting, and cogent phase of an ancient controversy in the Western world. This book is called the story of a "primitive" mentality/rationality debate because that is what it was called most commonly by those who participated in it. While as readers will see, there was nothing uniquely "primitive" about the mentality of people from traditional oral societies; to deprive the twentieth-century debate of its own terms and questions would be to lose sight of what it was. Divided into three sections, this book fi rst sets the twentieth century "primitive" mentality debate within its historical context so that it may be better understood. It then focuses on some of the highlights of the debate. The next section suggests that this debate was, in reality, itself but a chapter in (or aspect of ) a much larger story: the story of what may be appropriately referred to as the "hyperrationalization" of human society. To conclude, this book follows the debate into the twenty-fi rst century and offers the clarifi cation and resolutions developed in earlier chapters to contemporary students, scholars, and educated lay readers.

Coming Full Circle

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Author : Parth Atrey
language : en
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Release Date : 2017-06-01

Coming Full Circle written by Parth Atrey and has been published by Greenleaf Book Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with Religion categories.

Coming Full Circle: Redefining God in the Age of Reason takes us on a journey that explores how conceptions of God have evolved over 5,000 years of human history. This evolution takes us from the Vedic Rtá, to Plato’s “forms,” Spinoza’s “substance,” and Einstein’s “mind of God.” In the process, we are treated to the wisdom of the ages. Parth Atrey leads us to the incredible realization that our modern definition of God is completely consistent with the definition of God put forth by our most ancient ancestors. We have come full circle. Parth discusses the importance of faith and why it often trumps rationality. He shows why it is important to define God in a way that satisfies both our rational and our emotional needs. Reconciling rationality with deeply held faith and belief brings us full circle again, back to our most ancient religious roots. It also provides the only path to reducing religious conflict, eliminating superstition, and making this world a more peaceful place for all of humanity. ​Join this fascinating journey through the annals of time and through faith, belief, and rationality, and emerge with a refreshing perspective and perhaps your own personal definition of God! redefining-god.com

Redefining The French Republic

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Author : Alistair Cole
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2006-06-12

Redefining The French Republic written by Alistair Cole and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-12 with Political Science categories.

This text investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. It draws on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data.

Just Methods

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Author : Alison M. Jaggar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17

Just Methods written by Alison M. Jaggar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Education categories.

The supplemented edition of this important reader includes a substantive new introduction by the author on the changing nature of feminist methodology. It takes into account the implications of a major new study included for this first time in this book on poverty and gender (in)equality, and it includes an article discussing the ways in which this study was conducted using the research methods put forward by the first edition. This article begins by explaining why a new and better poverty metric is needed and why developing such a metric requires an alternative methodological approach inspired by feminism. Feminist research is a growing tradition of inquiry that aims to produce knowledge not biased by inequitable assumptions about gender and related categories such as class, race, religion, sexuality, and nationality."Just Methods" is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines. Rather than being concerned with particular techniques of inquiry, the interdisciplinary readings in this book address broad questions of research methodology. They are designed to help researchers think critically and constructively about the epistemological and ethical implications of various approaches to research selection and research design, evidence-gathering techniques, and publication of results.A key theme running through the readings is the complex interrelationship between social power and inequality on the one hand and the production of knowledge on the other. A second and related theme is the inseparability of research projects and methodologies from ethical and political values."

Redefining Linguistics Rle Linguistics A General Linguistics

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Author : Hayley G. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-03

Redefining Linguistics Rle Linguistics A General Linguistics written by Hayley G. Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that process, explain why a redefinition is needed, and how it should proceed. In the case of linguistics the subject is also the subject matter. Many linguists have ignored the problem of definition, simply regarding linguistics as the ‘science of language itself’. What, though, is ‘language itself’? Is it a language, ie English, Swahili? Or, language in a more general sense? The primary goal of a redefinition of linguistics should be to demonstrate that language is not an objective matter. Linguistics is, and should be, the study of whatever is linguistically pertinent. A linguistics redefined would look at how we interpret and construct our day-to-day communication acts, what views of language are shared by and opposed by societies, and the source and roles that these views play in our living and learning experience. These papers argue the case for such a redefinition more explicitly than has ever been done before in modern linguistic theory. Such a redefined perspective, precisely because it is a perspective, subject to ‘outside’ influence, and in constant dialogue with the perspective of the other human sciences, must be endlessly redefined.

Return To Good And Evil

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Author : Henry T. Edmondson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005-03-28

Return To Good And Evil written by Henry T. Edmondson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.

While Flannery O'Connor is hailed as one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century American south, few appreciate O'Connor as a philosopher as well. In Return to Good and Evil, Henry T. Edmondson introduces us to a remarkable thinker who uses fiction to confront and provoke us with the most troubling moral questions of modern existence. 'Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul, ' O'Connor once said, in response to the nihilistic tendencies she saw in the world around her. Nihilism--Nietzche's idea that 'God is dead'--preoccupied O'Connor, and she used her fiction to draw a tableau of human civilization on the brink of a catastrophic moral, philosophical, and religious crisis. Again and again, O'Connor suggests that the only way back from this precipice is to recognize the human need for grace, redemption, and God. She argues brilliantly and persuasively through her novels and short stories that the Nietzschean challenge to the notions of good and evil is an ill-conceived effort that will result only in disaster. With rare access to O'Connor's correspondence, prose drafts, and other personal writings, Edmondson investigates O'Connor's deepest motivations through more than just her fiction and illuminates the philosophical and theological influences on her life and work. Edmondson argues that O'Connor's artistic brilliance and philosophical genius reveal the only possible response to the nihilistic despair of the modern world: a return to good and evil through humility and grace.

The Undertow Of Reason

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Author : Nicholas Powers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The Undertow Of Reason written by Nicholas Powers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Slaves' writings categories.

Redefining Security In The Middle East

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Author : Tami Amanda Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2002

Redefining Security In The Middle East written by Tami Amanda Jacoby and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

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The Journey So Far

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Author : Peter Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2003

The Journey So Far written by Peter Hicks and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.

An accessible Christian survey of the history of philosophy, tracing the journey of human thought about God, the world, and humanity's relation to both.