Against Rationalism
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چکیده
Rationality and the issues associated with it have always occupied a central place within the Western philosophical tradition. Moreover, as the humanities and social sciences have found themselves under assault from post-modernists and deconstructionists, the role of rationality has also become a pressing problem well beyond the borders of philosophy. In this paper I am going to take issue with one of the most familiar ways in which rationality has been conceived within the Western tradition of thought. Rationalism, as I shall call it, embodies a particular conception of the nature of human action, choice and well-being. The purpose of the paper is to call that conception into question and to suggest the possibility of alternatives. But I should make clear at the outset one thing that my purpose is not. It is not my intention to mount an attack on the notion of rationality itself, either the general notion or the idea of rationality in ethics. On the contrary. My hope is that these notions can be defended better once we rid ourselves of certain prejudicial conceptions regarding human nature. To put it briefly, I should like to free rationality from rationalism.
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