In Eclipse of Reason, Horkheimer discusses how the Nazis were able to
project their agenda as "reasonable", but also identifies the
Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the
instrumental dimension of reasoning.It is broken into five sections:
Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise
and Decline of the Individual and On the Concept of Philosophy and
deals with the concept of reason within the history of western
philosophy.Horkheimer defines true reason as rationality, which can
only be fostered in an environment of free, critical thinking. He
details the difference between objective, subjective and instrumental
reason, and states that we have moved from the former through the
centre and into the latter (though subjective and instrumental reason
are closely connected). Objective reason deals with universal truths
that dictate that an action is either right or wrong. It is a concrete
concept, and a force in the world that requires specific modes of
behaviour.
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9781446547977
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2014
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Read Books Ltd.
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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