Titlebook: Rationality: The Critical View; Joseph Agassi (Professor of Philosophy),Ian Charle Book 1987 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987 1

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What is Literature?e never moved to inquire what literature is: they have a rough notion which suffices. Without a specific problem with our present notion of literature we are not only not moved to ask what it really is, but if by some chance we were so moved, we would have a difficult time answering the question, fo

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Utopia and the Architectsoned — for lack of what H.G. Wells would call a “time machine” — in the present? The future is open; we do not know what it will bring. Yet, “planners have to imagine the future as a matter of routine. Whether you are building a motorway, a chemical works or a school, you are making a forecast of t

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Theories of Rationalityan individual human being is, due to birth defect, poor schooling and confusing opinions, he still can pass with ease intelligence tests that the cleverest cat, dog, horse, or chimpanzee has no chance of ever passing. Yet this fact only annoys philosophers who discuss rationality. In particular it a

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0924-4530 nalitYl) the goal­ directed action of an agent with given aims and circumstances, where among his circumstances we included his knowledge and opinions. On this level the magician‘s treatment of illness by incantation is as rational as any traditional doctor‘s blood-letting or any modern one‘s use of

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Epistemology and Politics only philosophy that affords a theoretical justification of democracy in its temper of mind’ (p. 20), I shall argue that empiricism, at any rate as formulated by Hume, affords a theoretical condemnation of the kind of democracy we enjoy in the West.

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What is Literature?r in order to recognize a superior theory of what literature is, we need to know what is wrong or problematic about the notion we already have. The kind of answer we want depends upon the kind of problem we want to solve. How do problems with a commonsense notion of literature arise?

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