Reason and Morality

by Joanna Overing (editor)

This clear, critical examination makes Hegels arguments fully accessible. "Hegel"'s system is considered as a whole and examines the wide range of problems that it was designed to solve.

What is the place of reason, and conversely, of the unreasonable, the contradictory, the emotional, and the chaotic in social life? What is the nature of a general human rationality? Are there such things as incommensurable world views? How efficacious are typologies of "modes of thought" or "cognitive styles"? Is modern Western thought cognitively "superior" How possible are value-free investigative methods? How valid is the assumption of the absolute authority of hierarchical oppositions forthcoming from the paradigm of rationality? These are some of the controversies addressed by the contributors to this volume, which draws together papers from the 1984 Malinowski Centennial Conference of the ASA.

Genres: Philosophy

277 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1978

Reviews

[Kathryn Darragh · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent discussion and defence of ethical rationalism, though Gewirth arguably fails to adequately address the challenges presented by Kantian consequentialism.