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The Faces of Reason

An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada1850-1950

By: Leslie Armour,Elizabeth Trott

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The Faces of Reason

An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada1850-1950

By: Leslie Armour,Elizabeth Trott

The Faces of Reason traces the history of philosophy in English Canada from 1850 to 1950, examining the major English-Canadian philosophers in detail adn setting them in the context of the main currents of Canadian thought. The book concludes with a brief survey of the period after 1950. What is distinctive in Canadian philosophy, say the authors, is the concept of reason and the uses to which it is put. Reason has interacted with experience in a new world and a cold climate to create a distinctive Canadian community. The diversity of political, geographic, social, and religious factors has fostered a particular kind of thinking, particular ways of reasoning and communicating. Rather than one grand, overarching Canadian way of thinking, there are “many faces of reason,” “a kind of philosophic federalism”. The book has two dimensions: “it is a continuos story which makes a point about the development of philosophical reason in the Canadian context.... it is a reference work which may be consulted by readers interested in particular figures, ideas, movements, or periods.”

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889208956

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9780889208957

Necessary Knowledge

Piagetian Perspectives on Constructivism

By: Leslie Smith

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Necessary Knowledge

Piagetian Perspectives on Constructivism

By: Leslie Smith

Originally published in 1993, this monograph addresses a central problem in Piaget’s work, which is the temporal construction of necessary knowledge. The main argument is that both normative and empirical issues are relevant to a minimally adequate account of the development of modal understanding. This central argument embodies three main claims. One claim is philosophical. Although the concepts of knowledge and necessity are problematic, there is sufficient agreement about their core elements due to the fundamental difference between truth-value and modality. Any account of human rationality has to respect this distinction. The second claim is that this normative distinction is not always respected in psychological research on the origins of knowledge where emphasis is placed on the procedures and methods used to gain good empirical evidence. An account of the initial acquisition of knowledge is not thereby an account of its legitimation in the human mind. The third claim relates to epistemology. Intellectual development is a process in which available knowledge is used in the construction of better knowledge. The monograph identifies features of a modal model of intellectual construction, whereby some form of necessary knowledge is always used. Intellectual development occurs as the reduction of modal errors through the differentiation and coordination of available forms of modal understanding. Piaget’s work continues to provide distinctive and intelligible answers to a substantive and outstanding problem.

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351

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Routledge

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1351710850

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The Heart of Judgment

Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative

By: Leslie Paul Thiele

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The Heart of Judgment

Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative

By: Leslie Paul Thiele

The Heart of Judgment explores the nature, historical significance, and continuing relevance of practical wisdom. Primarily a work in moral and political thought, it also relies extensively on research in cognitive neuroscience to confirm and extend our understanding of the faculty of judgment. Ever since the ancient Greeks first discussed practical wisdom, the faculty of judgment has been an important topic for philosophers and political theorists. It remains one of the virtues most demanded of our public officials. The greater the liberties and responsibilities accorded to citizens in democratic regimes, the more the health and welfare of society rest upon their exercise of good judgment. While giving full credit to the roles played by reason and deliberation in good judgment, the book underlines the central importance of intuition, emotion, and worldly experience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139458965

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9781139458962

Beautiful Sublime

The Making of ‘Paradise Lost,’ 1701-1734

By: Leslie Moore

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Beautiful Sublime

The Making of ‘Paradise Lost,’ 1701-1734

By: Leslie Moore

Sublime' and 'Milton' - no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton's genius 'wonderfully turned to the Sublime', John Dennis calls Milton 'the sublimist of all our poets', while Jonathan Richardson concludes that Milton's mind 'is truly poetical. Great, strong, elegant and sublime'. Modern critics look askance at these 'sublime Miltonists', who are charged with forcing Paradise Lost, they took what was essentially a Restoration term and challenged it with an alternative aesthetic category - the beautiful. Though beauty did mark a certain generic stability (in a Burkean sense), it came increasingly to represent generic transformation, which in its most radical form recast the notion of a 'sublime Milton'. It is this play of oxymorons - sublime epic and beautiful sublime - that marks the brilliance of the early eighteenth century' criticism of Paradise Lost. To explore the early-eighteenth-century view of the 'sublime Milton', the author analyzes the work of five readers of Paradise Lost during the years 1701-34: Joseph Addison, the only writer of the five who attained any lasting fame; John Dennis, by far the most important - and overlooked - of the early Miltonists; Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, author of a brilliant parody of Book 8 and of even more remarkable accounts of Eve; Jane Adams, a lyric poet from Scotland who re-imagined the domestic hierarchy of Adam and Eve; and Jonathan Richardson, who attempted the first Christian interpretation of Paradise Lost and who authored the first biography of Milton as a 'sublime poet'. Together these critics represent the richness, cohesion, and variety of the interpretive community reading Paradise Lost in the first decades of the eighteenth century.

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Stanford University Press

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0804766118

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9780804766111

Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment

By: Leslie Ellen Brown

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Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment

By: Leslie Ellen Brown

During the Scottish Enlightenment the relationship between aesthetics and ethics became deeply ingrained: beauty was the sensible manifestation of virtue; the fine arts represented the actions of a virtuous mind; to deeply understand artful and natural beauty was to identify with moral beauty; and the aesthetic experience was indispensable in making value judgments. This book reveals the history of how the Scots applied the vast landscape of moral philosophy to the specific territories of beauty - in nature, aesthetics and ethics - in the eighteenth century. The author explores a wide variety of sources, from academic lectures and institutional record, to more popular texts such as newspapers and pamphlets, to show how the idea that beauty and art made individuals and society more virtuous was elevated and understood in Scottish society.

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284

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Routledge

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1317178335

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9781317178330

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

Vol. I

By: Leslie Stephen

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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

Vol. I

By: Leslie Stephen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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486

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3385436907

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The Germ of Justice

Essays in General Jurisprudence

By: Leslie Green

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The Germ of Justice

Essays in General Jurisprudence

By: Leslie Green

General jurisprudence is the theory of law in general, identifying features that law has wherever and whenever legal institutions exist. But it is no hermetic inquiry. Law depends on, and has consequences for, politics and morality. In The Germ of Justice, one of the subject's prominent exponents disentangles these relationships. Professor Leslie Green probes three clusters of problems: the nature of law as a social construction, the relations between law and morality, and the demands that law makes of its officers and its subjects. Along the way, Green asks what jurisprudence can learn from the social sciences, how it is related to the humanities, how it might make progress, and why it is of value. This wonderful and accessible text engages leading theories of law and key works of Hume, Kelsen, Hart, Dworkin, Finnis, and Raz. The Germ of Justice is a must-have work in contemporary jurisprudence and a powerful contribution to political theory and moral philosophy.

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417

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Oxford University Press

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0192886967

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9780192886965

The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

A History of Liberty and Freedom from the Ancient Celts to the New Millennium

By: Alexander Leslie Klieforth,Robert John Munro

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The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

A History of Liberty and Freedom from the Ancient Celts to the New Millennium

By: Alexander Leslie Klieforth,Robert John Munro

The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights is a history of liberty from 1300 BC to 2004 AD. The book traces the history of the philosophy and fight for freedom from the ancient Celts to the medieval Scots to the Scottish Enlightenment to the creation of America. The work contends that the roots of liberty originated in the radical political thought of the ancient Celts, the Scots' struggle for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Scottish declaration of independence (Arbroath, 1320) that were the primary basis of the American Declaration of Independence and the modern human rights movement.

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452

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University Press of America

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0761827919

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9780761827917

The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

Volume 1

By: Leslie Stephen

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The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

Volume 1

By: Leslie Stephen

Reproduction of the original: The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Leslie Stephen

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3752424028

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Right Place, Right Time

By: Leslie McKelvey

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Right Place, Right Time

By: Leslie McKelvey

Beth is a wildlife photographer who witnesses a shootout and the violent deaths of four men. When those responsible realize they've not only been seen but also photographed they give chase, determined to tie up loose ends. Beth dashed through the woods, intent on reaching safety.. Special Agent Bristol, heard gunshots and saw a woman running for her life and recognized those who are chasing her and realizes that things are worse than they seem. A vicious cartel with a mole at the FBI has put a target on Beth's back, and there is no one they can trust. Unable to call for backup, Bear must keep Beth safe until they can figure out who the inside man is. As they struggle to stay one step ahead of both corrupt law enforcement and the killers they learn to trust one another, and realize there is more between them than just friendship born of necessity. Can they overcome the obstacles they face, or will they win the fight to live, only to lose the battle to love?

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320

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Lulu.com

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193655657X

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9781936556571

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)

Volume 2

By: Leslie Stephen

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The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)

Volume 2

By: Leslie Stephen

Reproduction of the original: The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) by Leslie Stephen

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The English Utilitarians

By: Leslie Stephen

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The English Utilitarians

By: Leslie Stephen

A three-volume examination of the rise of English utilitarianism and its leading proponents, published in 1900.

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1108041000

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Book's by Leslie Hume

The Faces of Reason

The Faces of Reason

Necessary Knowledge

Necessary Knowledge

The Heart of Judgment

The Heart of Judgment

Beautiful Sublime

Beautiful Sublime

Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment

Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century

The Germ of Justice

The Germ of Justice

The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

Right Place, Right Time

Right Place, Right Time

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)

The English Utilitarians

The English Utilitarians

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