Présentation de l'éditeur
Whistler the painter proclaimed that a picture must be reckoned as the outcome, not of so many days labour, but of the education of a lifetime. In the same order of ideas I may call this Treatise on Reason the labour of a lifetime: for I cannot easily remember the time when I was not interested in one or other of the questions with which it is concerned. This is said only for the sake of anyone who may know work of the author in other fields. I believe that the second and third chapters of my First Book constitute something like a system. And it will be found upon reflection that most of the chapters that follow and almost all the practical conclusions of the Second Book do in fact rest upon those two chapters as their logical basis. Nevertheless this Pursuit of Reason is not offered as a system; but first of all as a pure exercise of the faculty of reasoning. As I have said again elsewhere, it is addressed first of all to those (though few) to whom the act of reasoning appears both as a pleasure and a duty. And by reasoning I understand something different from mere controversial argument. In its present form this treatise was written in the winter of 1908 9.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Originally published in 1910, this is a volume of philosophy by an author who found his main calling in the creation of novels, Charles Francis Keary (1848–1917). Unusual in its relatively personal exploration of ideas, together with its accessible, literary style, the text nonetheless maintains an academically rigorous approach to its exploration of the boundaries of reason. The fundamental premise is that mental processes generally thought to be based on intuition can, more accurately, be seen to find their basis in reasoning; this premise, in turn, forms the basis for an exposition of Keary's philosophy of life and religion. This is a highly readable, and critically underrated, book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy and theology.
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