Synopsis
This book offers a fresh perspective on the concept of reason, considered in terms of human action and its varieties, as the author explores how reason is exercised and experienced in the real world. Its chapters include a genealogy of reason, an examination of practical reason, and a theory of communicative reason. The author argues that there are many forms of reason, each with its own distinct features and limitations. This book provides a wide-ranging account of the concept of reason, drawing on a variety of sources, and will be of interest to readers in philosophy, sociology, and political theory.
About the Author
Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.
Lecky was an Irish historian.
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