Passionate Reason

Passionate Reason
Title Passionate Reason PDF eBook
Author C. Stephen Evans
Publisher Indiana University Press (Ips)
Pages 232
Release 1992-11-22
Genre Philosophy
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Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth.

Passionate Reason

Passionate Reason
Title Passionate Reason PDF eBook
Author C. Stephen Evans
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 228
Release 1992-11-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780253114402

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Johannes Climacus, SÃ ̧ren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Philosophical Fragments, "invents" a religion suspiciously resembling Christianity as an alternative to the assumption that humans possess the Truth within themselves. Through this literary device, Climacus raises in a fresh and audacious way age-old questions about the relation of Christian faith to human reason. Is the idea of a human incarnation of God logically coherent? Is religious faith the product of a voluntary choice? In a comprehensive discussion of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, C. Stephen Evans elucidates Kierkegaard's novel explanation that the tension between faith and reason must be understood as a consequence of the passionate character of reason itself. Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth.

Passion and Reason

Passion and Reason
Title Passion and Reason PDF eBook
Author Richard S. Lazarus
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 340
Release 1994
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780195104615

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Passion and Reason describes how readers can interpret what lies behind their own emotions and those of their families, friends, and co-workers, and provides useful ideas about how to manage our emotions more effectively.

Of the passions

Of the passions
Title Of the passions PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher
Pages 582
Release 1826
Genre
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The Tactical Uses of Passion

The Tactical Uses of Passion
Title The Tactical Uses of Passion PDF eBook
Author Frederick George Bailey
Publisher
Pages 298
Release 1983
Genre Psychology
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The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature

The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature
Title The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature PDF eBook
Author Susanna Morton Braund
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 278
Release 1997-08-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0521473918

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Essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature. Building on work on Hellenistic theories of emotion and on philosophy as therapy, they look closely at the interface between ancient philosophy (especially Stoic and Epicurean), rhetorical theory, conventional Roman thinking and literary portrayal. There are searching studies of the emotional thought-world of a range of writers including Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, Statius, Tacitus and Juvenal. Issues of debate such as the ethical colour of Aeneas's angry killing of Turnus at the end of the Aeneid are placed in a broad and illuminating perspective. Written in clear and non-technical language, with Greek and Latin translated, the volume opens up a fascinating area on the borders of philosophy and literature.

The Outer Limits of Reason

The Outer Limits of Reason
Title The Outer Limits of Reason PDF eBook
Author Noson S. Yanofsky
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 419
Release 2016-11-04
Genre Science
ISBN 026252984X

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This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. “A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world—including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve: • perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense • different levels of infinity • the bizarre world of the quantum • the relevance of relativity theory • the causes of chaos theory • math problems that cannot be solved by normal means • statements that are true but cannot be proven Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.