Within Reason Rationality and Human Behavior

Name: Within Reason Rationality and Human Behavior
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ISBN: 9780375703225

ISBN-10: 0375703225

ISBN-13: 9780375703225

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Authors: Donald Calne

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It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous? In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B. Calne investigates the phenomenon of rationality from an astonishingly wide array of scientific, sociological, and philosophical perspectives--and shows that although reason evolved as a crucial tool for human survival, it is an aspect of mind and brain which has no inherent moral or spiritual qualities and one whose relationship to our thoughts and actions may not be as central as we…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Donald B. Calne is director of the Neurodegenerative Disorders Center at Vancouver Hospital and professor of neurology at the University of British Columbia. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction



A Definition of Reason



Language and Speech



Social Behavior



Ethics



Commerce



Government



Reason for Religion



Reason Against Religion



Art



Science



Behavior and the Brain



Mind


Epilogue


Works Cited


Index