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Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal

Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal Paperback - 2004

by Fogelin, Robert

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  • Title Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal
  • Author Fogelin, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2004-12-16
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006309080
  • ISBN 9780195177541 / 0195177541
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.05 x 0.53 in (20.35 x 12.83 x 1.35 cm)
  • Reading level 1270
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.33

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Summary

Human beings are both supremely rational and deeply superstitious, capable of believing just about anything and of questioning just about everything. Indeed, just as our reason demands that we know the truth, our skepticism leads to doubts we can ever really do so. In Walking the Tightrope of Reason, Robert J. Fogelin guides readers through a contradiction that lies at the very heart of philosophical inquiry. Fogelin argues that our rational faculties insist on a purely rational account of the universe, yet at the same time, the inherent limitations ofthese faculties ensure that we will never fully satisfy that demand. As a result of being driven to this point of paradox, we either comfort ourselves with what Kant called "metaphysical illusions" or adopt a stance of radical skepticism....

First line

To the best of my knowledge (and somewhat to my surprise), Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal.

About the author

Robert Fogelin is Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His many books include Pyrrhonian Reflections, Wittgenstein and Hume's Skepticism.