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 fostered a particular kind of thinking, particular ways of reasoning and communicating. Rather than one grand, overarching Canadian way of thinking, there are “many faces of reason,” “a kind of philosophic federalism”.
The book has two dimensions: “it is a continuos story which makes a point about the development of philosophical reason in the Canadian context.... it is a reference work which may be consulted by readers interested in particular figures, ideas, movements, or periods.”
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- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 191
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780889208957 0889201072
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- B981
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- A75 1981eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxvi, 548 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326851 (OCoLC)243567100 (CaOOCEL)402662
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- PORTRAITS 8
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 16
- NOTES FROM THE AUTHORS 18
- PREFACE 22
- ONE: Backgrounds and Themes 28
- TWO: Reason and Authority 59
- THREE: Reason and Intuition 88
- FOUR: Reason and Morality 112
- FIVE: Reason, Authority, and the Structure of Experience 132
- SIX: Reason, Culture, and Power 203
- SEVEN: Reason as Social Understanding 243
- EIGHT: Reason as Constitutive of Knowledge and Reality 296
- NINE: Reason, Religion, and the Idea of Nature 348
- TEN: The Self-Transcendence of Reason, and Evolutionary Mysticism 388
- ELEVEN: Reason, Regionalism, and Social Policy 415
- TWELVE: The Fragmentation of Reason 432
- THIRTEEN: Reason, History, and the Social Sciences 457
- FOURTEEN: Faith and Reason 505
- FIFTEEN: The Idea of Reason and the Canadian Situation 534
- AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX 544
- A 544
- B 545
- C 545
- D 545
- E 546
- F 546
- G 546
- H 546
- I 546
- J 546
- K 547
- L 547
- M 547
- N 548
- P 548
- R 548
- S 548
- T 549
- V 549
- W 549
- Y 549
- TITLE INDEX 550
- A 550
- B 550
- C 550
- D 551
- E 551
- F 552
- G 552
- H 552
- I 552
- J 553
- K 553
- L 553
- M 553
- N 554
- O 554
- P 554
- Q 555
- R 555
- S 555
- T 555
- U 556
- V 556
- W 556
- GENERAL INDEX 557
- A 557
- B 557
- C 559
- D 560
- E 561
- F 561
- G 562
- H 563
- I 563
- J 564
- K 564
- L 565
- M 566
- N 568
- O 568
- P 568
- Q 569
- R 569
- S 570
- T 572
- U 573
- V 573
- W 573
- Y 574
- Z 575
