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Tyranny of Reason - The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook (Hardcover)
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Tyranny of Reason - The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook (Hardcover)
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The astonishing success of the natural sciences in the modern era
has led many thinkers to assume that similar feats of knowledge and
power should be achievable in human affairs. That assumption, and
the accompanying notion that the methods of modern science ought to
be applied to social and political questions, have been at the
heart of a number of prominent philosophical schools in the modern
age, and much of the politics of the past century. Is the
application of scientific logic to the study of human affairs
philosophically defensible? Does it aid or hinder our efforts at a
genuine understanding of the human world? Why have so many modern
ideologies, including those responsible for some of the greatest
atrocities of the 20th century, advanced themselves under the
banner of science? Why, in other words, do we assume that modern
science holds the key to an understanding of human affairs? Are we
right to make this assumption? And what does the assumption mean
for contemporary society and politics? Tyranny of Reason, which is
designed for the interested lay reader and for undergraduate or
beginning graduate students in the social sciences, attempts to
answer these important questions in the context of the history of
philosophy.
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