For the Sake of Argument: Practical Reasoning, Character, and the Ethics of Belief

by Eugene Garver

Book Overview

What role does reason play in our lives? What role should it play? And are claims to rationality liberating or oppressive? For the Sake of Argument addresses questions such as these to consider the relationship between thought and character. Eugene Garver brings Aristotle's Rhetoric to bear on practical reasoning to show how the value of such thinking emerges when members of communities deliberate together, persuade each other, and are persuaded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226283976
• ISBN13: 9780226283975
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"