Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Of the great aims of liberal education critical reasoning (the combination of the attitude and the capacity to ask the right questions and to think things through) has always been the most pursued and the hardest to impart. It is pursued because it is a presupposition of the others or of the correct exercise of the others. It is hard because it involves an art, a science, and a way of life. A way of life is lived and an art is learned by doing. Still what this book aims to do is to ground critical thinking on that part of the science of logic that is secure, propositional a...

Is it possible that I desire more intensely to act according to my second best judgment than I desire to act according to my leading one, at the very same instance? Is this (hypothetical) incoherence recognizable in our ordinary moral deliberations? If yes, it is worth adjusting our intuitions and philosophical insight so that such incoherence is seen to fall in some place it deserves between the moral and the rational...