The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations

by G.E.R. Lloyd

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108420044
• ISBN13: 9781108420044
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.6"