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Politics of Practical Reasoning - Integrating Action, Discourse, and Argument (Paperback)
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Politics of Practical Reasoning - Integrating Action, Discourse, and Argument (Paperback)
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The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political
matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing
really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue
seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too
often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as
objects rather than other selves - in ways that are fundamentally
unreasonable. This book examines what follows from seeing people as
deliberating and acting in ways that intertwine a variety of
emotional and evaluative processes and effects of virtue or
character. From this point of view, practical arguing involves not
just cognition, emotion, and virtue, but also practices, including
imaginative practices. Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating
Action, Discourse and Argument uses these ideas to interrogate ways
in which reasoning is bound up with the interrelated lives that
human beings lead in their everyday, public and political worlds.
We build here on efforts to re-concretize practical reasoning in
modern traditions linked to phenomenology and Wittgensteinian
thought, also referring back to Aristotle and the Stoics in
classical times. Medieval theologians and philosophers such as
Aquinas confront the same issue, as do Enlightenment thinkers such
as Smith and Kant. Using the history of philosophical thought as
one of our major sources, the contributors sympathize with the link
underscored between interpretation, tradition and reasoning by
Gadamer, the stress placed on communicative and emancipatory action
by Habermas, and MacIntyre's notion of praxis as highlighting
deliberation within communities. All these approaches respond to
practical reasoning as practical. Building on these points of view,
the volume both explores what practical reasoning itself means, and
applies it to particular questions: what it means to respond to
arguments about meaningful work or disability, or how to debate
institutional ethics or art. None of these debates is susceptible
to exclusively cognitive or technical solutions; this does not mean
abandoning them to unreason. Practical and political reasoning is
examined here from an appropriately broad spectrum of approaches,
founded in a concern for what human reasoning can justifiably be
expected to involve, and what justifying it can reasonably be
expected to achieve.
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