Acquiring reason.
In the last decades, there has been a far‐reaching debate about whether reason is a natural power of the human animal or a socio‐historical achievement. This paper brings out and criticizes two paradigmatic views of reason entangled in that dilemma: the substantive view which construes reason as a p...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 1393 - 1409 |
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