Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal

Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-218

  Fogelin, Robert ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute relativism; Kant; Paradox; Rational account; Rational faculties; Rational life; Skepticism; Truth; Truth claims

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EID: 84921383980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177541.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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