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Książka Rationality: The Critical View J. Agassi

Rationality: The Critical View

Autor: J. Agassi, I.C. Jarvie
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: Springer
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In our papers on the rationality of magic, we distinghuished, for purposes of analysis, three levels...

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Autor
J. Agassi, I.C. Jarvie
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
strony
480
EAN
9789024732753
ISBN
9024732751
Enbook ID
01969425
Wydawca
Springer
Waga
1930
Wymiary
155 x 235 x 31

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In our papers on the rationality of magic, we distinghuished, for purposes of analysis, three levels of rationality. First and lowest (rationalitYl) the goal directed action of an agent with given aims and circumstances, where among his circumstances we included his knowledge and opinions. On this level the magician's treatment of illness by incantation is as rational as any traditional doctor's blood-letting or any modern one's use of anti-biotics. At the second level (rationalitY2) we add the element of rational thinking or thinking which obeys some set of explicit rules, a level which is not found in magic in general, though it is sometimes given to specific details of magical thinking within the magical thought-system. It was the late Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard who observed that when considering magic in detail the magician may be as consistent or critical as anyone else; but when considering magic in general, or any system of thought in general, the magician could not be critical or even comprehend the criticism. Evans-Pritchard went even further: he was sceptical as to whether it could be done in a truly consistent manner: one cannot be critical of one's own system, he thought. On this level (rationalitY2) of discussion we have explained (earlier) why we prefer to wed Evans Pritchard's view of the magician's capacity for piece-meal rationality to Sir James Frazer's view that magic in general is pseudo-rational because it lacks standards of rational thinking.

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