

Reason and Rationality
Author: Jon Elster
Narrator: John Lescault
Unabridged: 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Published: 07/15/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Movements
Author: Jon Elster
Narrator: John Lescault
Unabridged: 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Published: 07/15/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Movements
Terrific (if slight) exploration of the many paradoxes inherent in both ‘reason’ and ‘rationality’. Can’t wait to dig into Elster’s larger texts.......more
To get the most out of this book, you really need to insert what rational choice theory is and it’s influence on so much scholarship. With that knowledge, this is a nice short and sensible critique of rationality as framed in much research, and why it doesn’t align with the ways in which humans actu......more
An excellent summation what is at issue in many of life's inherent problems.......more
Waiter, this dish is awful, and the portions are too small.......more
En su último párrafo, se resume el libro. "¿Cuáles son, en definitiva, las funciones de la razón y de la racionalidad en los comportamientos humanos? Son las funciones del preceptor y del consejero del príncipe, respectivamente. El preceptor le enseña al príncipe a promover el bien público a largo pl......more