1st Edition

Reason and Goodness

By Blanshard, Brand Copyright 1961
    452 Pages
    by Routledge

    452 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This book is the second in a series of three, which discuss successively the position of reason in the theory of knowledge, in ethics, and in theology. Blanshard is concerned with the vindication of reason against philosophical attacks. Each of the three books is designed to stand by itself.

    Chapter I The Tension between Reason and Feeling in Western Ethics; Chapter II Stoicism and the Supremacy of Reason; Chapter III St Francis and the Supremacy of Feeling; Chapter IV The Dialectic of Reason and Feeling in British Ethics; Chapter V Subjectivism; Chapter VI Deontology; Chapter VII Instrumentalism; Chapter VIII Emotivism; Chapter IX The Linguistic Retreat from Emotivism; Chapter X Three Theories of Goodness; Chapter XI Human Nature and Goodness; Chapter XII ‘Good’, ‘Right’, ‘Ought’, ‘Bad’; Chapter XIII Thought and Desire; Chapter XIV Reason and Politics; Chapter XV The Rational Temper;

    Biography

    Brand Blanshard