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The Ambivalences of Rationality - Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations (Hardcover)
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The Ambivalences of Rationality - Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations (Hardcover)
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Is rationality a well-defined human universal such that ideas and
behaviour can everywhere be judged by a single set of criteria? Or
are the rational and the irrational simply cultural constructs?
This study provides an alternative to both options. The
universalist thesis underestimates the variety found in sound human
reasonings exemplified across time and space and often displays a
marked Eurocentric bias. The extreme relativist faces the danger of
concluding that we are all locked into mutually unintelligible
universes. These problems are worse when certain concepts, often
inherited from ancient Greek thought, especially binaries such as
nature and culture, or the literal and the metaphorical, are not
examined critically. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from
philosophy to cognitive science, this book explores what both
ancient societies (Greece and China especially) and modern ones (as
revealed by ethnography) can teach us concerning the heterogeneity
of what can be called rational.
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