The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason Volume 76 Ober Josiah
Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutationsThe Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private…
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Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutationsThe Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, The Greeks and the Rational traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece.In this book, Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated and systematic ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits--that not every decision can be reduced to mechanistic calculations of optimal outcomes. Ober finds contemporary echoes of this tradition in the application of game theory to
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The Destruction of Reason
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us
The Age of Reason
The Magic of Discovery