How might reason be used to advance and serve the cause of social justice? In this interview, my guest Dr. Jeffrey Nicholas (Providence College) and I discuss his book Reason, Tradition, and the Good: Alasdair Macintyre and Frankfurt School Critical Theory, which takes up this very question. As the title of the book leads one to expect, Dr. Nicholas seeks to synthesize elements from Macintyre’s thought and Frankfurt School Critical Theory to develop an account of reason adequate to the task of building a just society.
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Pragmatic arguments seek to justify a belief or course of action on prudential grounds. Pascal’s Wager is perhaps the most well-known example of such...
David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) were Enlightenment philosophers who sought to place constraints upon human cognition, and are thought by many to...