The essay demonstrates the influence of Pascal on the thought of the contemporary American political theorist, Peter Lawler. Pascal's reflections on the paradoxical nature of the human condition ...informs Lawler's alternative to both modern optimistic rationalism and modern skeptical despair. Pascal's thought helps Lawler to make sense of the creature that finds itself alternately at home, and lost, in the cosmos. It also provides him with the resources to engage philosophy on its own terms without sacrificing theological conviction.
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A Sceptical Theory of Scientific Inquiry: Problems and Their Progress presents a striking re-interpretation of Popper's 'critical rationalism'. Briskman stresses methodological argument rather than ...metaphysics, develops a 'Popperian' response to the Meno Paradox, and takes further Briskman's approach to problems concerning creativity.
En el presente artículo analizaré el uso que hace Descartes del argumento heraclíteo de “el sol de los sentidos y el sol de la razón”, procedente del fragmento DK 22 B3, con el fin de establecer si ...dicho argumento responde a un “escepticismo heraclíteo” o si, por el contrario, puede asociarse a un “racionalismo heraclíteo”.
The contributors here show that Leibniz's 'rationalism' is not restricted to a concern with expanding and applying a logical and mathematical model of thought and action. They show the variety of ...models Leibniz's rationalism develop, combine, and make use of.
This article will follow approximately the following strategy. I will first show briefly what the logic of Weber's work with genetic – as opposed to classificatory – concepts consists of and what ...possibilities it opens up for historical theoretical consideration. I will then trace some possible results of the application of this work to the concepts of "rationalism" ("Western rationalism") and "capitalism" ("modern capitalism"). Particular emphasis will be placed on some specific configurations (historical encounters) that such work on rationalism and capitalism has come across, but I will show that these – mongrel in character – formations also highlight fields of possible disintegration. All this, as I will summarize in the end, allows further light to be shed on the interrelationship between rationality and capitalism. Finally, rather as a promise for future work, I will briefly consider a different (Schumpeter's) vision of the relationship between rationality and capitalism, which nevertheless stems from Weberian contexts.
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