In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education

by Israel Scheffler

Book Overview

This collection of essays defends the ideal of rationality, but insists that rationality is not to be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference, but taken rather as the capacity to grasp principles and purposes and to evaluate them in the light of relevant reasons.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415903645
• ISBN13: 9780415903646
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"