The Social Authority Of Reason

Author : Philip J. Rossi, SJ
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791483367

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The Social Authority of Reason by Philip J. Rossi, SJ Pdf

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.

Author : Jean E. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521556147

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The Authority of Reason by Jean E. Hampton Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Isaac Wilberforce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Authority
ISBN : OXFORD:600090918

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

Author : Gerald R. Cragg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107635050

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Reason and Authority in the Eighteenth Century by Gerald R. Cragg Pdf

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.

Author : Molly Worthen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190630515

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Apostles of Reason by Molly Worthen Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Simon Laden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191631306

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Reasoning by Anthony Simon Laden Pdf

Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision. Philosophers, social scientists, and others who discuss and analyze reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to figure things out, solve problems, and reach judgments. But there is a different activity we engage in that we call reasoning. We reason in the course of living together, when we are responsive to those with whom we live and neither commanding nor deferring to them, neither manipulating nor ignoring them. Analysis of this second kind of activity has relied on the tools and frameworks developed to make sense of the first kind of activity. In this book, Anthony Simon Laden invites his readers to approach this activity of reasoning on its own terms. He claims that if we are to truly see and appreciate the role and value of reasoning in living together, we need a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning. According to the social picture of reasoning developed here, reasoning is a species of conversation, and like casual conversation is social and ongoing. It is neither defined nor determined by its end, although it is governed by a set of characteristic norms. It consists of inviting others to accept that our words can speak for them as well. Reasoning: A Social Picture proposes an attractive new approach to thinking about how to live together, reasonably.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814774144

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Authority by Joseph Raz Pdf

Authority is one of the key issues in political studies, for the question of by what right one person or several persons govern others is at the very root of political activity. In selecting key readings for this volume Joseph Raz concerns himself primarily with the moral aspect of political authority, choosing pieces that examine its justification, determine who is subject to it and who is entitled to hold it, and whether there are any general moral limits to it. The readings—by such modern political thinkeres as Robert Paul Wolff, H. L. A. Hart, G. E. M. Anscombe, and Ronald Dworkin—examine the basic moral issues and provide an essential introduction to the debate about the nature of authority for all students of political theory.

Author : Mark J. Boone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793612991

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Reason, Authority, and the Healing of Desire in the Writings of Augustine by Mark J. Boone Pdf

In Reason, Authority, and the Healing of Desire in the Writings of Augustine, Mark Boone explains the theology of desire developed in a cross-section of Augustine’s On the True Religion, On the Nature of Good, On Free Choice of the Will, On the Teacher, On the Usefulness of Believing, On the Good of Marriage, Enchiridion, and Confessions. Throughout his writings and in many ways, Augustine develops a Platonically informed, yet distinctively Christian, account of desire. Human desire should respond to the goodness inherent in things, loving the greatest good above all and great goods more than lesser goods. Above all, we should love God and souls. Sin, an inappropriate desire for lesser goods, is healed by the redemption of Christ.

Author : Onora O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107116313

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Constructing Authorities by Onora O'Neill Pdf

This book is a collection of essays by Onora O'Neill and forms an illuminating commentary of Kant's fundamental philosophical strategy.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3823341642

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Aesthetics and contemporary discourse by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Benjamin McMyler
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199794331

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Testimony, Trust, and Authority by Benjamin McMyler Pdf

Testimony, Trust, and Authority develops and defends an interpersonal theory of testimony according to which a speaker's testimony provides an audience with a distinctively second-personal reason for belief.

Author : Thomas Fossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197645703

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Facing Authority by Thomas Fossen Pdf

"When your friends call on you to take to the streets and demand the fall of the regime, this presses a practical predicament that we all address, often implicitly, in our everyday lives: is this regime legitimate? Facing Authority investigates the ways in which this question of legitimacy can be addressed in theory and practice, in the face of disagreement and uncertainty. Instead of asking "what makes authorities legitimate?" in the abstract, it examines how the question of legitimacy manifests itself in practice. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so? And what does it mean to do this well? Facing Authority proposes that judging legitimacy is not a matter of applying moral knowledge, provided by political philosophy, but of engaging in various forms of political contestation-contestation over the representation of power (what is the nature of the regime?), collective selfhood (who am I, and who are we?), and the meaning of events (what happened here-a coup, or a revolution?). These questions constitute the heart of the question of legitimacy, but thus far they have been neglected by theorists of legitimacy. This book offers a new way of thinking about political legitimacy and practical judgment, interweaving philosophical analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with concrete examples of struggles for legitimacy, from the German Autumn to the Arab Spring. The result is a pragmatist alternative to predominant moralist and realist approaches to legitimacy in political philosophy"--

Author : Josef Weinzierl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509965069

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Demoicratic Authority by Josef Weinzierl Pdf

What is the nature of EU's authority? This fascinating book explores this question, and is much needed given the increased scrutiny of the EU's actions in the face of growing nationalism and various other internal and external challenges. By setting out an original account of the preferred moral standard to evaluate such authority, ie demoicratic authority, it illustrates how that standard affects the practical reasoning of those subject to the EU's authority. Theoretically significant, the book also has important practical value as legitimacy challenges in the EU increase. Constitutional lawyers and theorists, as well as political scientists will welcome this innovative new work.

Author : Thomas Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351315029

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Authority and Its Enemies by Thomas Molnar Pdf

Ideological warfare against authority, especially in the world of higher education, broke out in the 1960s, and continues into the 1990s. No source or symbol of authority escaped untouched?neither parents nor teachers nor the cop on the beat. While the hippies have gone underground or disappeared entirely, the assault on legitimate authority continues unabated. As familiar institutions crumble before our eyes, befuddled liberals and conservatives alike throw up their hands in despair. In Authority and Its Enemies, Thomas Molnar asserts that the Western world is reeling from an overdose of freedom without order or authority.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190278267

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Epistemic Authority by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Pdf

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.