The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations

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Is rationality a well-defined human universal such that ideas and behaviour can everywhere be judged by a single set of criteria? Or are the rational and the irrational simply cultural constructs? This study provides an alternative to both options. The universalist thesis underestimates the variety found in sound human reasonings exemplified across time and space and often displays a marked Eurocentric bias. The extreme relativist faces the danger...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108420044

ISBN13:9781108420044

Release Date:December 2017

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:132 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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Philosophy

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