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Reason in Action : Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521447799
  • ISBN-10: 0521447798
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: December 1995
  • Dimensions: 8.39 x 5.36 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.76 pounds
  • Page Count: 296

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