| Description |
1 online resource (575 pages) |
| Contents |
PORTRAITS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES FROM THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; ONE: Backgrounds and Themes; TWO: Reason and Authority; THREE: Reason and Intuition; FOUR: Reason and Morality; FIVE: Reason, Authority, and the Structure of Experience; SIX: Reason, Culture, and Power; SEVEN: Reason as Social Understanding; EIGHT: Reason as Constitutive of Knowledge and Reality; NINE: Reason, Religion, and the Idea of Nature; TEN: The Self-Transcendence of Reason, and Evolutionary Mysticism; ELEVEN: Reason, Regionalism, and Social Policy; TWELVE: The Fragmentation of Reason |
| Summary |
The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the period after 1950. What is distinctive in Canadian philosophy, say the authors, is the concept of reason and the uses to which it is put. Reason has interacted with experience in a new world and a cold climate to create a distinctive Canadian community. The diversity of political, geographic, social, and religious factors has |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Canada -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Trott, Elizabeth
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| ISBN |
9780889208957 |
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0889208956 |
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