Date: 	Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:16:24 -0400
From: "kenneth.mackendrick" <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
Subject: HAB: Practical, Theoretical, and Emphatic Reason



hey ya'll,

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the difference 
between practical and theoretical reason.  Agnes Heller has a 
wonderful article in Rasumsen, ed., Universalism vs. 
Communitarianism about the difference.

For Heller - theoretical reason involves the whole of 
philosophy - and attitude toward the ideal - the whole.  
practical reason is our day to day attitude toward people and 
things.  she keeps them both quite separate.

my thoughts on emphatic reason seem to exist in the 
transition between these two forms.  from practical to ideal 
(which, i suspect, can only be accomplished emphatically).

any thoughts?,
ken




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