LEADER 04984oam 2200721I 450 001 9910791187703321 005 20230803023431.0 010 $a1-317-85228-1 010 $a1-138-87100-1 010 $a1-315-83024-8 010 $a1-317-85229-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315830247 035 $a(CKB)2550000001313508 035 $a(EBL)1702130 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001295308 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11731540 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001295308 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11336768 035 $a(PQKB)10328926 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1702130 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1702130 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10879584 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL616761 035 $a(OCoLC)881416437 035 $a(OCoLC)882251659 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001313508 100 $a20180331e20131962 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReason and analysis /$fBrand Blanshard 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (504 p.) 225 1 $aMuirhead Library of Philosophy: Metaphysics ;$vII 300 $aFirst published 1962 by Brand Blanshard. 311 $a0-415-29590-4 311 $a1-306-85510-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter I The Revolt Against Reason; 1. Reason in its nuclear sense is the grasp of necessity; 2. It has lost respect through a cultural revolution; 3. Which Has Had Many Causes; 4. The decline has continued over several decades; 5. Philosophy at the turn of the century was dominated by idealistic rationalism; 6. Which has now almost wholly vanished; 7. The attack on it was opened by realists; 8. And continued by naturalists 327 $a9. Instrumentalism sought to replace contemplative reason by practical intelligence10. Logical empiricism discountenanced the rational knowledge of nature; 11. Linguistic philosophy has shifted interest away from speculative thought; 12. Existentialism is deeply sceptical of reason; 13. In theology the current emphasis is on the inadequacy of reason; 14. In psychology, Freud reduced the work of reason largely to rationalization; 15. Making reason the veneer of powerful non-rational impulses; 16. In sociology belief in an objective reason gave way to cultural relativity 327 $a17. Which was applied by Mannheim to reason itself18. In politics, the trust in reasonableness was a casualty of two wars; 19. And of three anti-rational dictatorships; 20. Irrational nationalism remains a major peril; 21. In literary criticism the appeal to sanity appears outmoded; 22. And there is a wide acquiescence in meaninglessness; 23. The most popular revivals from the past are those of anti-rationalists; 24. The subject of this book is the revolt against reason in philosophy; Chapter II The Idea of Reason in Western Thought; 1. Reason is taken to differentiate man from the animals 327 $a2. When so taken, reason has four distinguishable components3. Its chief early application is in the connection of means with ends; 4. The free use of theoretic reason seems to have been achieved first by the Greeks; 5. And depended on their notion of form; 6. (1) Form as essence meant logical definition; 7. (2) Form as end involved implicit purpose; 8. (3) Form as law made possible a knowledge of the connection of concepts, which was; 9. (i) Certain; 10. (ii) Novel; 11. (iii) Independent of sense; 12. (iv) Universal; 13. (v) Objective; 14. (vi) Independent of time 327 $a15. (4) Form as system implied a world of interlinked concepts16. The exercise of reason was, for the Greeks, a condition of the good life; 17. The Greek conception of reason has been dominant in western thought; 18. Descartes held certainty to be the product of reason alone; 19. He analysed the method of reason as pursued in mathematics; 20. This method could be applied universally, in spite of inner obstacles; 21. And even more formidable ones in nature; 22. Spinoza's rationalism had richer motives than that of Descartes; 23. Progress in reason was for him the end of life 327 $a24. The advance was from the contingent knowledge of common sense 330 $aFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 410 0$aMuirhead library of philosophy ;$vII. 606 $aReason 606 $aLogical positivism 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 615 0$aReason. 615 0$aLogical positivism. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 676 $a146.4 700 $aBlanshard$b Brand$f1892-1987.,$049730 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791187703321 996 $aReason and analysis$9838737 997 $aUNINA