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The Authority of Reason

Author : Jean E. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521556149
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Authority of Reason written by Jean E. Hampton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging and provocative book argues against much contemporary orthodoxy in philosophy and the social sciences by showing why objectivity in the domain of ethics is really no different from the objectivity of scientific knowledge. Many philosophers and social scientists have challenged the idea that we act for objectively authoritative reasons. Jean Hampton takes up the challenge by undermining two central assumptions of this contemporary orthodoxy: that one can understand instrumental reasons without appeal to objective authority, and that the adoption of the scientific world view requires no such appeal. In the course of the book Jean Hampton examines moral realism, the general nature of reason and norms, internalism and externalism, instrumental reasoning, and the expected utility model of practical reasoning. The book is sure to prove to be a seminal work in the theory of rationality that will be read by a broad swathe of philosophers and social scientists.

The Social Authority of Reason

Author : Philip J. Rossi, SJ
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483363
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Social Authority of Reason written by Philip J. Rossi, SJ and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Social Authority of Reason, Philip J. Rossi, SJ argues that the current cultural milieu of globalization is strikingly reflective of the human condition appraised by Kant, in which mutual social interaction for human good is hamstrung by our contentious "unsociable sociability." He situates the paradoxical nature of contemporary society—its opportunities for deepening the bonds of our common human mutuality along with its potential for enlarging the fissures that arise from our human differences—in the context of Kant's notion of radical evil. As a corrective, Rossi proposes that we draw upon the social character of Kant's critique of reason, which offers a communal trajectory for human moral effort and action. This trajectory still has power to open the path to what Kant called "the highest political good"—lasting peace among nations.

Apostles of Reason

Author : Molly Worthen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190630515
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Apostles of Reason written by Molly Worthen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative history of modern American evangelicalism, Molly Worthen offers a dramatic rethinking of the evangelical movement, arguing that it has been defined not by shared doctrines or politics, but by the struggle to reconcile head knowledge and heart religion in an increasingly secular America. -- Back cover.

Reason and Authority in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Gerald R. Cragg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107635055
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Reason and Authority in the Eighteenth Century written by Gerald R. Cragg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1964, this book examines the influence of reason and authority upon English thought in the eighteenth century. The text relates these two concepts to movements in religious and political thought, beginning with Locke's views on faith and reason before going through various areas and finishing with the beginnings of Romanticism. The age of the Enlightenment is seen as constituted, on the one hand, by an attempt to relate all significant intellectual movements to reason and, on the other, an attempt to devise proper restraints on the authority of reason. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy, social and political thought, and eighteenth-century English history.

The Problem of Political Authority

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137281669
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Political Authority written by Michael Huemer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority.

Epistemic Authority

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190278269
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Authority written by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives an extended argument for epistemic authority from the implications of reflective self-consciousness. Epistemic authority is compatible with autonomy, but epistemic self-reliance is incoherent. The book argues that epistemic and emotional self-trust are rational and inescapable, that consistent self-trust commits us to trust in others, and that among those we are committed to trusting are some whom we ought to treat as epistemic authorities, modelled on the well-known principles of authority of Joseph Raz. Some of these authorities can be in the moral and religious domains. The book investigates the way the problem of disagreement between communities or between the self and others is a conflict within self-trust, and argue against communal self-reliance on the same grounds as the book uses in arguing against individual self-reliance. The book explains how any change in belief is justified--by the conscientious judgment that the change will survive future conscientious self-reflection. The book concludes with an account of autonomy. -- Información de la editorial.

Constructing Authorities

Author : Onora O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316453782
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Authorities written by Onora O'Neill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together the central lines of thought in Onora O'Neill's work on Kant's philosophy, developed over many years. Challenging the claim that Kant's attempt to provide a critique of reason fails because it collapses into a dogmatic argument from authority, O'Neill shows why Kant held that we must construct, rather than assume, the authority of reason, and how this can be done by ensuring that anything we offer as reasons can be followed by others, including others with whom we disagree. She argues that this constructivist view of reasoning is the clue to Kant's claims about knowledge, ethics and politics, as well as to his distinctive accounts of autonomy, the social contract, cosmopolitan justice and scriptural interpretation. Her essays are a distinctive and illuminating commentary on Kant's fundamental philosophical strategy and its implications, and will be a vital resource for scholars of Kant, ethics and philosophy of law.

An Inquiry Into the Principles of Church-authority; Or, Reasons for Recalling My Subscription to the Royal Supremacy

Author : Robert Isaac Wilberforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Principles of Church-authority; Or, Reasons for Recalling My Subscription to the Royal Supremacy written by Robert Isaac Wilberforce and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Inquiry Into the Principles of Church-authority ; Or, Reasons for Recalling My Suscription to the Royal Supremacy

Author : R. I. Wilberforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Principles of Church-authority ; Or, Reasons for Recalling My Suscription to the Royal Supremacy written by R. I. Wilberforce and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cages of Reason

Author : Bernard S. Silberman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226757374
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Cages of Reason written by Bernard S. Silberman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending political, historical, and sociological analysis, Bernard S. Silberman offers a provocative explanation for the bureaucratic development of the modern state. The study of modern state bureaucracy has its origins in Max Weber's analysis of the modes of social domination, which Silberman takes as his starting point. Whereas Weber contends that the administration of all modern nation-states would eventually converge in one form characterized by rationality and legal authority, Silberman argues that the process of bureaucratic rationalization took, in fact, two courses. One path is characterized by permeable organizational boundaries and the allocation of information by "professionals." The other features well-defined boundaries and the allocation of information by organizational rules. Through case studies of France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain, Silberman demonstrates that this divergence stems from differences in leadership structure and in levels of uncertainty about leadership succession in the nineteenth century. Silberman concludes that the rise of bureacratic rationality was primarily a response to political problems rather than social and economic concerns. Cages of Reason demonstrates how rationalization can have occurred over a wide range of cultures at various levels of economic development. It will be of considerable interest to readers in a number of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, and public administration. "Silberman has produced an invaluable, densely packed work that those with deep knowledge of public administrative development will find extremely rewarding." —David H. Rosenbloom, American Political Science Review "An erudite, incisive, and vibrant book, the product of intensive study and careful reflection. Given its innovative theoretical framework and the wealth of historical materials contained in it, this study will generate debate and stimulate research in sociology, political science, and organizational theory. It is undoubtedly the best book on the comparative evolution of the modern state published in the last decade."—Mauro F. Guillen, Contemporary Sociology

Authority

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007283
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Authority written by Frank Furedi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Who is in authority?' is a question we can no longer answer with confidence. This history of authority explains why.

The Order of Public Reason

Author : Gerald Gaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521868563
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Order of Public Reason written by Gerald Gaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative and important work, Gerald Gaus advances a revised, and more realistic, account of public reason liberalism, showing how, in the midst of fundamental disagreement about values and moral beliefs, we can achieve a moral and political order that treats all as free and equal moral persons. The first part of this work analyzes social morality as a system of authoritative moral rules. Drawing on an earlier generation of moral philosophers such as Kurt Baier and Peter Strawson as well as current work in the social sciences, Gaus argues that our social morality is an evolved social fact, which is the necessary foundation of a mutually beneficial social order. The second part considers how this system of social moral authority can be justified to all moral persons. Drawing on the tools of game theory, social choice theory, experimental psychology, and evolutionary theory, Gaus shows how a free society can secure a moral equilibrium that is endorsed by all, and how a just state respects, and develops, such an equilibrium.

Authority and Social Work

Author : Shankar A. Yelaja
Publisher : Toronto University of Toronto Press 1971
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Authority and Social Work written by Shankar A. Yelaja and published by Toronto University of Toronto Press 1971. This book was released on 1971 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social workers tend to regard the exercise of authority as inimical to the values and ethnics of their profession, yet authority is inherent in every social work relationship. This collection of readings brings together the best, published articles bearing on this basic problem which continues to concern social scientists. It contains twenty-six articles and essays examining in depth, and from different points of view, the concept and use of authority. The articles were carefully selected from the voluminous literature on the topic, and are presented here in a form that will be meaningful and interesting to student and field worker alike. The readings are organized into two parts: in the first, an analysis of the concept of authority is made with the help of social and behavioural science literature; in the second, the conceptual understanding is related to social work practice. Among the authors represented are Erich Fromm, Carl J. Friedrich, Chester I. Barnard, Max Weber, Elliot Study, Kurt and Elizabeth de Schweinitz, and Fritz Redl. The collection was designed as a text for students of social work, but it will be of equal benefit to practising social workers, and to others in the humanitarian professions.

Democratic Authority

Author : David Estlund
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831547
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Authority written by David Estlund and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good decisions. In Democratic Authority, David Estlund offers a groundbreaking alternative based on the idea that democratic authority and legitimacy must depend partly on democracy's tendency to make good decisions. Just as with verdicts in jury trials, Estlund argues, the authority and legitimacy of a political decision does not depend on the particular decision being good or correct. But the "epistemic value" of the procedure--the degree to which it can generally be accepted as tending toward a good decision--is nevertheless crucial. Yet if good decisions were all that mattered, one might wonder why those who know best shouldn't simply rule. Estlund's theory--which he calls "epistemic proceduralism"--avoids epistocracy, or the rule of those who know. He argues that while some few people probably do know best, this can be used in political justification only if their expertise is acceptable from all reasonable points of view. If we seek the best epistemic arrangement in this respect, it will be recognizably democratic--with laws and policies actually authorized by the people subject to them.

Deliberative Democracy

Author : James Bohman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522410
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Deliberative Democracy written by James Bohman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.

The Myth of Morality

Author : Richard Joyce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139430939
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Morality written by Richard Joyce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, and demands that it does not make. Should we therefore do away with morality, as we did away with other faulty notions such as witches? Possibly not. We may be able to carry on with morality as a 'useful fiction' - allowing it to have a regulative influence on our lives and decisions, perhaps even playing a central role - while not committing ourselves to believing or asserting falsehoods, and thus not being subject to accusations of 'error'.

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465502
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. It presents new frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Shiʿism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse.