A History of Reasonableness: Testimony and Authority in the Art of Thinking

by Rick Kennedy

A defense of the social operation of thinking, with an emphasis on testimony and authority.

This book describes a lost tradition that can be called reasonableness. The tradition began with Aristotle, was recommended to Western education by Augustine, flourished in the schools of the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, then got lost in the academic and philosophic shuffles of the twentieth century. Representative of the tradition is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461522
• ISBN13: 9781580461528
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"