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The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason (Sather Classical Lectures 76) by Josiah Ober is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason (Sather Classical Lectures 76) about?
Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, The Greeks and the Rational traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece. In this b
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Josiah Ober
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520380172
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Ancient & Medieval Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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