TY - BOOK ID - 2913398 TI - Pragmatic liberalism and the critique of modernity PY - 1999 VL - *21 SN - 052164013X 0521649730 1139173243 9780521649735 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Mind KW - Raison KW - Rationaliteit KW - Rationality KW - Rationalité KW - Reason KW - Rede KW - Reason. KW - Ethics, Modern KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Intellect KW - Rationalism KW - MacIntyre, Alasdair C. KW - Rorty, Richard. KW - Taylor, Charles, KW - Rorti, Ričard KW - Rorty, R. M. KW - Rorty, Richard, KW - MacIntyre, A. C. KW - Rorty, Richard McKay KW - Taylor, Charles KW - Ethics [Modern ] KW - 20th century KW - Philosophy [Modern ] KW - Rorty, Richard KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Ethics, Modern - 20th century. KW - Philosophy, Modern - 20th century. KW - MacIntyre, Alasdair UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2913398 AB - In this book Gary Gutting offers a powerful account of the nature of human reason in modern times. The fundamental question addressed by the book is what authority human reason can still claim once it is acknowledged that our fundamental metaphysical and religious pictures of the world no longer command allegiance. If ethics and science remain sources of authority what is the basis of that authority? Gutting develops answers to these questions through critical analysis of the work of three dominant philosophical voices in our time: Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor. His own position is defined as 'pragmatic liberalism'. ER -