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Theme for Reason / James Ward Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2393Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1957Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691626789
  • 9781400879250
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 100
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter One: Orientation -- Chapter Two: The Problem in Political Philosophy -- Chapter Three: The Problem in Moral Philosophy -- Chapter Four: Outline of a Solution for Political and Moral Philosophy -- Chapter Five: The Present State of Philosophy: Analysis -- Chapter Six: The Present State of Philosophy: The Grand Tradition -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary: Philosophers have often bluntly said, and more often tacitly assumed that careful and reasonable men will confine themselves to two very rigid ways of talking. Vile must either show that what we say is a theorem deducible from assumed axioms and postulates, or we must show that what we say is made probable by evidence. This book is at heart an attack upon the idea that rationality requires any such straitjacket, and it repudiates the dichotomy between "analytic" philosophy and philosophy "in the grand tradition." Rationality is here conceived as a subtle and complex temper of deciding, most needed precisely where what we have to say cannot be stuffed into the two narrow pigeonholes in question.Originally published in 1957.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter One: Orientation -- Chapter Two: The Problem in Political Philosophy -- Chapter Three: The Problem in Moral Philosophy -- Chapter Four: Outline of a Solution for Political and Moral Philosophy -- Chapter Five: The Present State of Philosophy: Analysis -- Chapter Six: The Present State of Philosophy: The Grand Tradition -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subjects

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Philosophers have often bluntly said, and more often tacitly assumed that careful and reasonable men will confine themselves to two very rigid ways of talking. Vile must either show that what we say is a theorem deducible from assumed axioms and postulates, or we must show that what we say is made probable by evidence. This book is at heart an attack upon the idea that rationality requires any such straitjacket, and it repudiates the dichotomy between "analytic" philosophy and philosophy "in the grand tradition." Rationality is here conceived as a subtle and complex temper of deciding, most needed precisely where what we have to say cannot be stuffed into the two narrow pigeonholes in question.Originally published in 1957.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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