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The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age - Couverture rigide

Hancock, Ralph

 
9781442207370: The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 144220737X ISBN 13 : 9781442207370
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2011

Synopsis

Can we run our lives and govern our societies by reason? The question provoked Socrates to redirect philosophic inquiry in a political direction, and it has remained fundamental to Western thought. Martin Heidegger explored this problem in his profound critique of the Western metaphysical tradition, and Leo Strauss responded to Heidegger with an attempt to recover the classical idea of the rule of reason.

In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are for us inseparable.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ralph C. Hancock is professor of political science at Brigham Young University.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
144220737X
ISBN 13 
9781442207370
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
346
Coordonnées du fabricant
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