Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and their Social Conditions [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 17 (1):144-144 (1963)
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The purpose of this book is to assess the merit of applying technical or economic rationality to social, legal and political problems. Diesing describes reason as calculation, discovery and application of rules to cases, and creative. Tentatively relating each type of rationality to one aspect of reason, he finally declares that creative reason "facilitates the study of social and political rationality, which are more difficult to characterize in terms of the other conceptions of reason."--C. E. B.

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