Reason in Action (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521442633)

Did Adam and Eve act rationally in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree? That can seem to depend solely on whether they had found the best means to their ends, in the spirit of the "economic" theories of rationality. In these essays, culled in revised form from twenty-five years' work, Martin Hollis argues that social action cannot be understood by viewing human beings as abstract individuals with preferences in search of satisfaction, or by divorcing practical reason from questions of the rationality of norms, principles, practices and ends.

Author: Martin Hollis
ISBN-10: 052144263X
ISBN-13: 9780521442633
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/1996
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.79h x 5.65w x 0.81d