
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Life of Reason

Related Topics

deductive reasoning

The Critique of Pure Reason

A Momentary Lapse of Reason

case based reasoning

Reasons and Persons

The Age of Reason

Abductive reasoning

Reasonable Doubt

Reason magazine

Harry Reasoner

Reason Asimov

In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Dallas Willard ARTICLES
		Reason is our ability to bring that peculiar structure of truth with which a child is familiar before consciousness, and, in simpler cases at least, to gain insight into or understanding of it and of the necessary relations between propositions and their truth values.
		The main point in all of this, to my mind, is simply that the reasonable person--the one who acts in accordance with reason in life as well as in their academic or other profession--is the one who governs his or her beliefs and assertions by insight into truth and logical relations.
		Being reasonable, or living the life of reason, as here explained must be incorporated into our moral identity, must be a part of what we understand as being a good person, if it is the have power to direct our lives and govern our thinking and speaking.
	www.dwillard.org /articles/artview.asp?artID=33 (4469 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life of Reason, by George Santayana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reason is as old as man and as prevalent as human nature; for we should not recognise an animal to be human unless his instincts were to some degree conscious of their ends and rendered his ideas in that measure relevant to conduct.
		Reason and humanity begin with the union of instinct and ideation, when instinct becomes enlightened, establishes values in its objects, and is turned from a process into an art, while at the same time consciousness becomes practical and cognitive, beginning to contain some symbol or record of the co-ordinate realities among which it arises.
		Reason accordingly requires the fusion of two types of life, commonly led in the world in well-nigh total separation, one a life of impulse expressed in affairs and social passions, the other a life of reflection expressed in religion, science, and the imitative arts.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/5/0/0/15000/15000-h/15000-h.htm (9924 words)

	LIVES OF REASON & SPIRIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Such a survey would be a biography of reason, in which I should neglect the external occassions on which ideas and beliefs arise and study only the changing patterns which they form in the eye of thought.
		No doubt when I wrote The Life of Reason I was taken up with rational ethics and interested (as I still am) in the theory of government and the pro's and cons's of religious institutions.
		this is not a substitute for the life of reason, but the cream or concomitant ultimate actuality of what the organized life of reason produces in consciousness.
	members.aol.com /tpdtpd/gslife.htm (791 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		REASON IN ART Volume V. Volume One of "The Life of Reason" GEORGE SANTAYANA he gar noy enhergeia zohe This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged republication of volume one of _The Life of Reason; or the Phases of Human Progress_, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905.
		As life is a better form given to force, by which the universal flux is subdued to create and serve a somewhat permanent interest, so reason is a better form given to interest itself, by which it is fortified and propagated, and ultimately, perhaps, assured of satisfaction.
		The principle of their reasoning, where they chose to apply it, was always this, that ideas whose materials could all be accounted for in consciousness and referred to sense or to the operations of mind were thereby exhausted and deprived of further validity.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/5/0/0/15000/15000.txt (19189 words)

	Recovery of the life of Reason: The Principles of Completeness, Formation and Foundation (Part 2)
		In the first place, the practically forgotten experiential context on which the meaning of Reason depends had to be restored.
		Moreover, as far as that was possible in the brief space, I have tried to establish the inner coherence of pieces of analysis which in the sources are scattered over a vast body of literature.
		Beyond its function as a technical aid in mastering contemporary phenomena of intellectual disorder, the diagram had the important psychological effect of overcoming the students' sense of disorientation and lostness in the unmanageable flood of false opinions that presses in on them every day.
	www.fritzwagner.com /ev/recovery_of_reason2.html (662 words)

	[No title]
		Thus this law of reason makes the deer that Indian's who hath killed it; it is allowed to be his goods, who hath bestowed his labour upon it, though before it was the common right of every one.
		To turn him loose to an unrestrained liberty, before he has reason to guide him, is not the allowing him the privilege of his nature to be free; but to thrust him out amongst brutes, and abandon him to a state as wretched, and as much beneath that of a man, as their's.
		This shews the reason how it comes to pass, that parents in societies, where they themselves are subjects, retain a power over their children, and have as much right to their subjection, as those who are in the state of nature.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /publications/projects/digitexts/locke/second/locke2nd.txt (7590 words)

	§31. George Santayana; "The Life of Reason". XVII. Later Philosophy. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For this reason as well as for the unique value of his work, no account of American philosophy should omit a consideration of George Santayana.
		Another excuse for departing from the prudent policy of avoiding in history any treatment of those still alive and active, is that at this date (1919) it does not seem that Santayana’s future career will belong to America.
		The conditions of academic life, in which nearly all of our philosophers are placed, are certainly not favourable for sustained, deliberate, and thorough composition.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/227/1031.html (282 words)

	Benedict De Spinoza [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Life under the sway of the passions is a life of bondage.
		This is because the strength of the active affects, which pertain to reason, is a function of the strength of the mind alone, whereas the strength of the passive affects, the passions, is a function of the strength of their external causes, which in many cases is greater.
		It is a life of one who lives by the guidance of reason rather than under the sway of the passions.
	www.iep.utm.edu /s/spinoza.htm (10542 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : My Life in Whimsicality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Through history, man has developed reason and elaborated on the possibilities and realities of reason: man has rendered faith, truth, and morality, and has upheld them and marveled at them.
		Reason is whimsical because reason itself, manifested as righteousness, is nonexistent.
		This is life as we uphold it; this is my life in whimsicality.
	www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1804243 (237 words)

	Libertarians for Life
		Libertarians for Life was founded in 1976 to show why abortion is a wrong, not a right.
		Our reasoning is expressly scientific and philosophical rather than either pragmatic or religious, or merely political or emotional.
		Libertarianism's basic principle is that, under justice, each of us has the obligation not to aggress against (violate the rights of) anyone else -- for any reason (personal, social, or political), however worthy.
	www.l4l.org (253 words)

	Reason: Illegal Cities: Life among the Third World’s squatters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The physical conditions of life were most difficult in the Kibera settlement of 500,000 in Nairobi.
		It is a wonderful story of the vitality and creativity of ordinary people who have managed to survive and sometimes even prosper in the face of government indifference if not hostility.
		Robert H. Nelson, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, is the author of Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government (Urban Institute Press).
	www.reason.com /0508/cr.rn.illegal.shtml (1512 words)

	Reason: The Life-Preserver President:How long can Republicans stay afloat?
		If they lose it, or if terrorism loses salience, then the life preserver is gone, and Republicans sink.
		The trouble with a life preserver, after all, is that you neglect to swim.
		Jonathan Rauch is a senior writer and columnist for National Journal and a frequent contributor to Reason.
	www.reason.com /rauch/072505.shtml (1246 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During his whole mortal life on earth, including the two or three years of His active ministry, Christ lived as a devout Jew, Himself observing, and insisting on His followers observing, the injunctions of the Law (Matt., xxiii, 3).
		Christ's clear and definite teaching, moreover, about the life to come, the final judgment resulting in an eternity of happiness or misery, the strict responsibility which attaches to the smallest human actions, is in great contrast to the current Jewish eschatology.
		To the Jews they dwelt upon the marvellous fulfilment of the prophesies in Christ, showing that, in spite of the manner of His life and death, He was actually the Messias, and that their redemption from sin had really been accomplished by His sacrifice on the Cross.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03712a.htm (8642 words)

	George Santayana Quotes - The Quotations Page
		Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
		Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
		In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence.
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes/George_Santayana (538 words)

	Meaning of Life
		Perhaps the question is not so much about the meaning of life, but about living it; answering the question “How should I live?” and finding something beyond yourself to help discover an answer.
		When his mother died, Wettstein found comfort in a God—not in terms of life after death or the unreality of death which he feels are illusions, but in terms of meaning.
		In one of their conversations, the professor spotted an ant hill and remarked that without God, his life would be as meaningless as the lives of the ants on the hill.
	www.philosophytalk.org /pastShows/MeaningofLife.htm (776 words)

	§32. Detachment. XVII. Later Philosophy. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		“The life of reason is a heritage and exists only through tradition.” 37 Traditional forms may, indeed, cramp our life, and a vital mind like Shelley will revolt, but the end or good is not freedom but some more congenial form.
		Perhaps the most characteristic of Santayana’s views is his estimate of the value of modern science for the life of reason or civilization.
		In part this is doubtless due to the unfortunate manner in which his principal book, The Life of Reason, is written—a manner which does not attract the public and repels the professional philosopher.
	www.bartelby.com /227/1032.html (1380 words)

	Philosophy and the Good Life : Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Philosophy and the Good Life : Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics Review: This book is a wonderful resource for someone interested in philosophical discourse about the good life, and more specifically about how the tension between reason and passion enters into that discourse.
		In "Philosophy and The Good Life" John Cottingham starts with the question: "can philosophy enable us to lead better lives?" In the first section of the book, he chronicles why this challenge to "provide an authentic blueprint for human flourishing", seemingly the most basic of philosophical endeavors, had mostly been ignored in recent philosophical discourse.
		"Life's greatest pleasures are reserved for "those whom the passions can move most deeply"." To Aristotle's concept of habituation Descartes thus adds the eerily modern notion of a "therapy" for the passions.
	www.textkit.com /0_0521478901.html (798 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Can we know God by natural reason in this life? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Further, the knowledge of natural reason belongs to both good and evil, inasmuch as they have a common nature.
		But because they are His effects and depend on their cause, we can be led from them so far as to know of God "whether He exists," and to know of Him what must necessarily belong to Him, as the first cause of all things, exceeding all things caused by Him.
		Reason cannot reach up to simple form, so as to know "what it is"; but it can know "whether it is."
	www.newadvent.org /summa/101212.htm (462 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| Beyond Reason: 8 great problems that reveal the limits of science, by AK Dewdney
		Beyond Reason: 8 great problems that reveal the limits of science, by AK Dewdney
		Some barriers, says AK Dewdney, are to be marvelled at: they give thought and reason shape.
		This is a dazzling book that demonstrates why mathematics describes physical reality in a way words could never do.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/opinion/story/0,12981,1250722,00.html (376 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: In Pursuit of Reason: the Life of Thomas Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Noble Cunningham's one-volume life is somewhat dispassionate, giving only a little sense of Jefferson's greatness, but it covers the essential episodes in the Founding Father's life with admirable balance and conciseness.
		As such, it compromises on a detailed discussion on any one aspect of Jefferson's life, but this is understandable, given the limited scope of the book.
		Overall, the book tries to encompass Jefferson's personal as well as political life in its contents.Thus it compromises with many aspects.Yet it is a fairly good book overall.It is written in lucid style and would be useful to anyone wanting to obtain a bird's eye view of the life and career of Thomas Jefferson.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345353803 (1075 words)

	George Santayana -Reason in Science Life of Reason Vol 5 - Kathleen Eagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reason in Science Life of Reason Vol 5
		1: Reason in Science Life of Reason Vol 5.
		Reason s Muse Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy Women in Culture and Society.
	www.reviewofbooks.net /301625reason_science_life_reason_5.html (60 words)

	Second Treatise of Civil Government, by John Locke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The present Edition of this Book has not only been collated with the first three Editions, which were published during the Author's Life, but also has the Advantage of his last Corrections and Improvements, from a Copy delivered by him to Mr.
		And for the same reason Esau went from his father, and his brother, and planted in mount Seir, Gen.
		An acre of land, that bears here twenty bushels of wheat, and another in America, which, with the same husbandry, would do the like, are, without doubt, of the same natural intrinsic value: but yet the benefit mankind receives from the one in a year, is worth 5l.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /l/l81s/l81s.html (8049 words)

	LIFE - A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime
		LIFE - A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime
		People come into your life for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime.
		They are there for the reason you need them to be.
	autumn.www1.50megs.com /life.html (216 words)

	Positive Atheism's Big List of George Santayana Quotations
		A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
		Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
		Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/santayana.htm (1024 words)

	Powell's Books - In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Noble E Cunningham
		In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
		He was a complex and compelling man: a fervent advocate of democracy who enjoyed the life of a southern aristocrat and owned slaves, a revolutionary who became president, a believer in states' rights who did much to further the power of the federal government.
		Drawing on the recent explosion of Jeffersonian scholarship and fresh readings of original sources, IN PURSUIT OF REASON is a monument to Jefferson that will endure for generations.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0345353803 (128 words)

	PEOPLE COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A REASON!
		When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
		They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.
		Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
	www.powerhouse04.blinkz.com /stories/view/18811.htm (340 words)

	Santayana Quotes - Literary Quotes About Santayana and Practically Everything Else
		Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
		Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
		- George Santayana, "The Life of Reason" ($), In Time/Past
	quotes.prolix.nu /Authors/?Santayana (78 words)

	A Voice of Chaos in a World of Reason :: GOD.RACING.LIFE \| The Life of Bryan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The reason why the real threat is the far right is that they have the Bible.
		The Bible is one of the greatest works produced in the world.
		The people who all they have is the Bible actually are set up for life.
	www.bryanwatts.com (2781 words)

	The Life of Reason (Great Books in Philosophy) - Hotel Resource Book Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While he shared the intellectual accomplishments of many philosophers of the century--equal to any in the so-called "analaytic" tradition--he did not share their spiritual pursuits.
		Philosophy for him was a search for a kind of enlightenment that could not be found in the dustbins of "epistemology." If you think "knowing that" is the end of human life,...
		The Life of Reason is a marvelously executed, exceptionally elegant philosophical tour de force.
	www.hotelresource.com /bookstore/asinsearch_1573922102.html (283 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)