the retreat of reason a dilemma in the philosophy of life dec 2005

... constitutes the other sense of the retreat of reason ,namely that of reason retreating (from the ruling position in one’s personality). The extent of this withdrawal of reason will vary in relation ... fit neither of these ends, butthey may all the same have at least the function of mitigating the sensation of pain. Thereis experimental evidence indicating that, if the stimulation of other ... own life. The examination of the rationality of attitudes in Part II dissolves this air of paradoxby distinguishing between rational attitudes in the sense, roughly, of attitudes beingbased...

... beginningwith the early Church Fathers and culminating in the greatScholastics. But, at last, its generative ideas—sin and salvation,nature and grace, unity, infinity, and kingdom—had donetheir ... ?What guarantees the truth of sense-data? What lies behind the observable order of phenomena? What is the relation of the mind to the brain? How can we know other selves?—Allthese are familiar problems ... reaped in the nextseason of the human understanding.2. Symbolic Transformation The vitality and energies of the imagination do notoperate at will; they are fountains, not machinery.D. G. JAMES,...

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... said as well: in many cases the individual agents of a system aren't that intelligent at all, but the combination and co-operation of them leads to the intelligence and smartness of an ... Because of the rapid spread, however, the original innovator may gain little market advantage and so may have little reason to innovate in the first place. Patents or other methods of ensuring ... professional magazines indicate that these problems are not appearing on the Internet only: large companies that own databases with gigabytes of corporate information stored in them (so-called...