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The Greeks and the Rational
- The Discovery of Practical Reason
Engelsk Hardback
The Greeks and the Rational
- The Discovery of Practical Reason
Engelsk Hardback

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Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations   The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, The Greeks and the Rational traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece.   In this book, Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated and systematic ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits—that not every decision can be reduced to mechanistic calculations of optimal outcomes. Ober finds contemporary echoes of this tradition in the application of game theory to political science, economics, and business management. The Greeks and the Rational offers a striking revisionist history with widespread implications for the study of ancient Greek civilization, the history of thought, and human rationality itself.  
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
488
ISBN-13:
9780520380165
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520380169
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
29 nov 2022
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
29 nov 2022
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