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Reason and Culture: The Historic Role of Rationality and Rationalism (New Perspectives on the Past)
Reason and Culture The Historic Role of Rationality and Rationalism - New Perspectives on the Past
Author: Ernest Gellner
The disparity between the history of the idea of rationality - from Hobbes to Rawls - and what constitutes and has constituted "reasonable" behaviour form the subject of this book. The institutions of state - government, the law, the military - are based, in the West, on the principle that human beings, if not always reasonable, are at any rate ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780631137115
ISBN-10: 0631137114
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Blackwell Pub
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