In Defense of Reason
Author | : Yvor Winters |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Yvor Winters |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Laurence BonJour |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521597456 |
A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.
Author | : Victor Reppert |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2009-09-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830874651 |
Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis. Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.
Author | : Yvor Winters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Yvor Winters |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical works--Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, and The Anatomy of Nonsense--of the period in which he worked out his famous and influential critical position. The works together show an integrated position which illuminates the force and importance of the individual essays. With The Function of Criticism, a subsequent collection, In Defense of Reason provides an incomparable body of critical writing. The noted critic bases his analysis upon a belief in the existence of absolute truths and values, in the ethical judgment of literature, and in an insistence that it is the duty of the writer--as it is of very man--to approximate these truths insofar as human fallibility permits. His argument is by theory, but also by definite example--the technique of the "whole critic" who effectively combines close study of specific literary works and a penetrating investigation of aesthetic philosophies.
Author | : Jerry Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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A theoretical defense of advertising, based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. The author defends advertising because it appeals to the self-interest of consumers and promotes the profit-making gains of the capitalists.
Author | : Joel Stein |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1455591467 |
From Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite. "I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate as a baby full of soft-boiled eggs." —Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn't economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street, academics, policy papers, Davos, international treaties and the people who think they're better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump represented something far more appealing, which was beating up people like Joel Stein. In a full-throated defense of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein fights against populism. He fears a new tribal elite is coming to replace him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send the country hurtling backward to a time of wars, economic stagnation and the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats. To find out how this shift happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists. All the while using the biggest words he knows.
Author | : Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2009-10-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1844674290 |
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Author | : Kelly James Clark |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1990-03-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780802804563 |
Clark provides a penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism--that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. His assertion is that this demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational. His work bridges the gap between technical philosopher and educated layperson.
Author | : Sir Philip Sidney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1595 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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