Practical Intellect and Substantial Deliberation In Seeking an Expre
This book presents an anti-intellectualist view of how the cognitive-mental dimension of human intellect is rooted in and interwoven with our embodied-internal components including emotion, perception, desire, etc., by investigating practical forms of thi
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Practical Intellect and Substantial Deliberation In Seeking an Expressive Notion of Rationality
Practical Intellect and Substantial Deliberation
Cheng Yuan
Practical Intellect and Substantial Deliberation In Seeking an Expressive Notion of Rationality
Cheng Yuan Department of Philosophy Capital Normal University Beijing, China
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To my father Xiaoping Yuan (袁小平) who has always stood by me and sometimes put up with me
Abstract
Under the influence of “pervasively reflective-intellectual culture” (B. Williams), our understanding of deliberation as well as the notion of rationality behind it seems highly intellectualized and therefore distorted. These understandings of deliberation, as author holds, have deviated its meaning too far in comparing with its antecedent concept such as “phronesis” and “prudentia.” Moreover, they result in a series of separations and oppositions (e.g., “rational” and “irrational”; “ideal rationality” and “real rationality”) and produce a very impoverished concept of human rationality. In contrast, another group of philosophers whom the author stands alongside with and consults like Bernard Williams, John McDowell, David Wiggins, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Oakeshott, Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taylor, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Larmore, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and many other philosophers, in a broad sense, are all suspicious of the theoretical motivation that reduces deliberation int
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