The Politics Of Practical Reason
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The Politics Of Practical Reason
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Author : Mark Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-06-09
The Politics Of Practical Reason written by Mark Ryan and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-09 with Religion categories.
Ought we conceive of theological ethics as an activity that draws from a community's vision of human goodness and that has implications for the kind of person each of us is to be? Or, can students of the discipline map the ethical implications of what Christians confess about God, themselves, and the world while remaining indifferent to these claims? Habituated by modern moral theories such as consequentialism and deontology, Mark Ryan argues, we too often assume that Christian ethics makes no claim on the character of its students and teachers. It is rather like yet another department store within the shopping mall of ideas and ideologies to which advanced education provides access. By arguing that theological ethics is an activity by nature "political," the author endeavors to show us that to do Christian ethics is to be habituated into ways of talking and seeing that put us on a path toward the good. The author thus affirms the claim that theological ethics is a life-changing practice. But why is it so? This book endeavors to display a philosophical basis for this claim, by articulating the political character of practical reason. Through rigorous conversation with G. E. M. Anscombe, Charles Taylor, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Jeffrey Stout, Ryan provides an account of practical reasoning that enables us to rightly conceive theological ethics as a discipline that ought to change our lives.
Politics Of Practical Reasoning
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Author : Ricca Edmondson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Politics Of Practical Reasoning written by Ricca Edmondson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Philosophy categories.
The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as objects rather than other selves — in ways that are fundamentally unreasonable. This book examines what follows from seeing people as deliberating and acting in ways that intertwine a variety of emotional and evaluative processes and effects of virtue or character. From this point of view, practical arguing involves not just cognition, emotion, and virtue, but also practices, including imaginative practices. Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse and Argument uses these ideas to interrogate ways in which reasoning is bound up with the interrelated lives that human beings lead in their everyday, public and political worlds. We build here on efforts to re-concretize practical reasoning in modern traditions linked to phenomenology and Wittgensteinian thought, also referring back to Aristotle and the Stoics in classical times. Medieval theologians and philosophers such as Aquinas confront the same issue, as do Enlightenment thinkers such as Smith and Kant. Using the history of philosophical thought as one of our major sources, the contributors sympathize with the link underscored between interpretation, tradition and reasoning by Gadamer, the stress placed on communicative and emancipatory action by Habermas, and MacIntyre’s notion of praxis as highlighting deliberation within communities. All these approaches respond to practical reasoning as practical. Building on these points of view, the volume both explores what practical reasoning itself means, and applies it to particular questions: what it means to respond to arguments about meaningful work or disability, or how to debate institutional ethics or art. None of these debates is susceptible to exclusively cognitive or technical solutions; this does not mean abandoning them to unreason. Practical and political reasoning is examined here from an appropriately broad spectrum of approaches, founded in a concern for what human reasoning can justifiably be expected to involve, and what justifying it can reasonably be expected to achieve.
Practical Reason
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Author : Stephan Körner
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-10
Practical Reason written by Stephan Körner and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book covers a wide spectrum of connected topics in the field of practical and moral thinking. It contains papers and discussions on the logic of practical reasoning and moral obligation; on the decision-theoretical approach to morality; on the relation between practical and theoretical reason; and on the political aspects of morality. The contributors are, for the most part, well-known philosophers who have not been content with merely restating their positions, but have sued this as a forum for proposing new ideas. The value of the collection lies not only in the originality of the contributions on the various topics mentioned but equally in its demonstration of the interrelations among these topics.
The Political Implications Of Kant S Theory Of Knowledge
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Author : G. Lahat
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-29
The Political Implications Of Kant S Theory Of Knowledge written by G. Lahat and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-29 with Political Science categories.
Based on an insightful and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowledge, this book explores the political implications of Kant's philosophical writings on knowledge. It suggests that Kant offers a stable foundation for the reconsideration of the idea of progress as crucial in matters of political management at the outset of the 21st Century.
The Right To Justification
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Author : Rainer Forst
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-27
The Right To Justification written by Rainer Forst and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-27 with Philosophy categories.
Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt School's newest generation of philosophers, conceives of an "autonomous" construction of justice founded on what he calls the basic moral right to justification. Forst begins by identifying this right from the perspective of moral philosophy. Then, through an innovative, detailed critical analysis, he ties together the central components of social and political justice freedom, democracy, equality, and toleration and joins them to the right to justification. The resulting theory treats "justificatory power" as the central question of justice, and by adopting this approach, Forst argues, we can discursively work out, or "construct," principles of justice, especially with respect to transnational justice and human rights issues. As he builds his theory, Forst engages with the work of Anglo-American philosophers such as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Amartya Sen, and critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth. Straddling multiple subjects, from politics and law to social protest and philosophical conceptions of practical reason, Forst brilliantly gathers contesting claims around a single, elastic theory of justice.
Critique Of Practical Reason
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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-06-11
Critique Of Practical Reason written by Immanuel Kant and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-11 with Philosophy categories.
This 1788 work, based on belief in the immortality of the soul, established Kant as a vindicator of the truth of Christianity. It offers the most complete statement of his theory of free will.
Constructions Of Reason
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Author : Onora O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1989
Constructions Of Reason written by Onora O'Neill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.
This book traces the alleged incoherences to attempts to assimilate Kant's ethical writings to modern conceptions of rationality, actions and rights.
Practical Reason And Norms
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Author : Joseph Raz
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1999-09-09
Practical Reason And Norms written by Joseph Raz and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-09 with Philosophy categories.
Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity. Rules are a structure of reasons to perform the required act and an exclusionary reason not to follow some competing reasons. Exclusionary reasons are explained, and used to unlock the secrets of orders, promises, and decisions as well as rules. Games are used to exemplify normative systems. Inevitably, the analysis extends to some aspects of normative discourse, which is truth-apt, but with a diminished assertoric force.
Practical Reasoning About Final Ends
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Author : Henry S. Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-02-28
Practical Reasoning About Final Ends written by Henry S. Richardson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-02-28 with Philosophy categories.
This book argues against philosophical opponents, that we can determine our ends or goals rationally.
Constructing Authorities
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Author : Onora O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Constructing Authorities written by Onora O'Neill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Law categories.
This book is a collection of essays by Onora O'Neill and forms an illuminating commentary of Kant's fundamental philosophical strategy.