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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Practical Reason"”.
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How moral knowledge motivates: a practical reason account
… and act morally we recognise and respond to reasons that are there whether we recognise them or not. This is the claim defended in this thesis. It has two aspects. The first is that acts of moral judgement aspire, sometimes successfully, to moral knowledge. This is moral cognitivism. The …
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Sidgwick, Common Sense, and the Dualism of Practical Reason
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Between God and Man: Community's Place in Virtue, Practical Reason, and Transcendent Good
… with the fundamental ethical perspective of the practical deliberator who experiences his practical deliberations as a continuous, unified, and constantly revised activity which begins with inchoate intimations of goodness and proceeds better or worse to understand and pursue the goodness which …
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Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote
… instrumental rationality to the exclusion of practical reason and probabilistic ways of knowing. Bureaucratic modernity signifies a decrease in choices that can be legitimized in public on some basis other than calculative-methodological-procedural thought. Guidance for civic and marketplace …
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Aristotle on Practical Reasoning: Perception, Reason and Action in Aristotle’s Thought
<p>This study aims to clarify Aristotle’s practical reason and how his flexible but, nonetheless nonarbitrary ethical teaching works. By doing so, I hope to provide an alternative way of understanding practical reason in contradistinction to a modern view of practical reason and its assumptions …
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Hyperkrasia: structures of agency in self-oppression
… I propose that, in hyperkrasia, an agent’s practical reason becomes authoritarian. This category is then further developed throughout the thesis, drawing on Augustine, Foucault, and Merleau-Ponty. Augustine’s notion of a corrupted will provides an account of how choice can be compromised …
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Kant With Foucault: On The Dangers Of The Theoretical Reification Of The Subject To Freedom And The Need For A Practical Psychology
… Kant's distinction between theoretical and practical reason, noting that practical reason could think the subject as a free soul rather than as a naturally-determined object. I then divided the sciences of the subject into four general types to determine which science could think the subject …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… basis of acting from duty must come from practical reason alone, and that when we act from duty we must exclude sensibility from the determining grounds of choice. In what way, then, is respect for the law a feeling? And what place does this feeling have—if any—in Kant’s ethics? The aim of …
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C. S. Lewis and the Premodern Rhetorical Tradition: The Abolition of Man as Rhetoric and Philosophy of Education
… for developing the habits that are necessary for practical reason and meaningful communal interaction. However, through the worldview of scientism, modern education replaces the authority of this human tradition with the authority of method and technique. When modern education uses the authority …
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Kant on Personhood
… to deterministic natural laws? As an idea of practical reason, it should be impossible to apply
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Moral competence and the psychopath.
… evidence to suggest that conscious deliberative reasoning can influence those emotional and intuitive processes and thus determine the content of moral judgment. Whilst empirical research helps to identify important capacities that underpin moral judgment, it is uncertain which of those …
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One and the same reason
… about the relationship between theoretical and practical reason. I argue that these two kinds of reason are unified in important respects. In Chapter One I argue that there is a single, fundamental kind of reasoning (roughly, unrestrained self-reflection) and that theoretical and practical …
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An Intellectual History of Roger Scruton's Thought
… the analytic philosophy of the emotions, and of practical reason, after the later Wittgenstein. Scruton is part of that tradition of reading the Philosophical Investigations through an Aristotelian lens. Scruton’s philosophy of culture is a special case of the general rehabilitation of the …
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Making Sense of Faultless Disagreement
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of faultless disagreement: situations in which it seems that neither of two opposing sides has made a mistake in upholding their respective positions. I explore the way in which we ought to conceive of the nature of the kinds of claims that give rise to …
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The nature of synthetic judgements a priori and the categorical imperative
… and natural science in the Critique of Pure Reason, where he dealt with them at length. After showing that there can be no subject-object distinction with regard to synthetic judgements a priori, in either mathematics or natural science, I apply this moral to Kant's formulations of the …
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A Solution to "The Problem of Socrates" in Nietzsche's Thought: An Explanation of Nietzsche's Ambivalence Toward Socrates
… thought, especially in terms of his view of reason. The most influential interpretation of Nietzsche's relationship to Socrates comes from Kaufmann, who claims that Nietzsche's view of Socrates is one of pure admiration. More recently, scholars such as Nehamas have corrected Kaufmann's flawed …
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An Epicurean Kant
… summum bonum , his use of the postulates of pure practical reason, and his deployment of the concept of selbstzufriedenheit (self-satisfaction) as distinct from the Hellenistic notion of ataraxia. My suggestion is that Kantian virtue takes up the Stoic view of an orderly universe, but requires the …
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Knowing and doing, well and good
… that this control turns out to be Anscombean practical knowledge, the special knowledge an agent can have of what she is doing, how, and why. The second chapter considers how my view about the knowledge-action relationship differs from those advocated by 'shifty epistemologists'-theorists who …
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A Polynomial Chaos Approach to Control Design
… approach. This method was created for the practical reason that uncertainty in parameters tends to be inherent in system models. As such, the development of new methods utilizing probability density functions (PDFs) was desired. From a more theoretical viewpoint, the utilization of …
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ARISTOTELIAN-INSPIRED MODEL FOR CURTAILING ACADEMIC DISHONESTY IN THE UNITED STATES
… and proper intellect as necessary elements in practical reason. Chapter three provides a summary of empirical research into the prevalence of academic dishonesty and the internal and external factors influencing academic dishonesty. This assemblage of data suggests that an effective sustainable …
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