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Reason

The capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information

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  • A woman representing Wisdom (?) giving to a philosopher (Aristotle?) the key to the treasure-house of Reason, to distinguish man from the beasts. Etching.

Works from the collections

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    Ethical hermeneutics : rationality in Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of liberation / by Michael Barber.

    Barber, Michael D., 1949- | Date: 1998
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    Powers of the rational : science, technology, and the future of thought / Dominique Janicaud ; translated by Peg Birmingham and Elizabeth Birmingham.

    Dominique Janicaud | Date: [1994]
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    Rhetoric in(to) science : style as invention in inquiry / Heather Brodie Graves.

    Graves, Heather, 1958- | Date: [2005]
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    Critique of pure reason / Immanuel Kant.

    Immanuel Kant | Date: 1934
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    Aristotle's De anima in focus / [edited by] Michael Durrant.

    | Date: 1993
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Related topics

Intelligence
Thinking
Brain
Psychology
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Science - Philosophy
Rationalism
Ancient

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