Armstrong argues that twentieth century fundamentalism “is a reaction against the scientific and secular culture that first appeared in the West, but which has since taken root in other parts of the world” (xiii).
Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower.
Like Habermas , Wells optimistically posits a kind of regulatory role for discourse in our disputes about rationality , describing discourse as an organizing form of human action : " Discourse secures assent , organizing rational ...
Aristotle's view does not restrict rationality to science , nor does it exclude rationality from rhetoric , but Aristotle restricts necessary and absolutely true knowledge to science . The Aristotelian view will suffer the impact of ...
... but nonetheless very useful , collection of bibliographical review essays on the history of rhetoric are contained in Winifred Bryan Horner , ed . , The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric ( Columbia ...
. This work will be useful to all who wonder what to do about the largely negative results of postmodern thought.Ó ÑJoseph C. Flay The Resources of Rationality addresses the postmodernist assault on the claim of reason and develops a ...
Hickey, Dona J. Developing a Written Voice. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1993. Porter, James. Audience and Rhetoric: An Archaeological Composition of the Dis-course Community. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1993. See also ELBOW, PETER; ...
Because, as market discourse never tires of expounding, humans are animals whose efforts at rational behavior often fail ... I reimagine reason as that which must be practiced, negotiated, and transformed as a living, embodied training.
In fact , our everyday life is the one area where we have most of our beliefs : beliefs about other people , about our ... Precisely in this sense rationality and rhetoric will thus always be inextricably bound together , because it is ...
The present volume examines Santaraksita's Tattvasamgraha and Kamalasila's extensive commentary on it, works that cover all conceivable problems in Buddhist thought and portray Buddhism as a supremely rational faith.