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Self-trust

A Study of Reason, Knowledge and Autonomy

  • Hardback
  • 216 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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Keith Lehrer offers an original philosophical view of principal aspects of the human condition, such as reason, knowledge, wisdom, autonomy, love, consensus, and consciousness. Three unifying ideas run through the book. The first is that what is uniquely human is the capacity for metamental ascent, the ability to consider and evaluate first-order mental states (such as beliefs and desires) that arise naturally within us. A primary function of this metamental ascent is the resolution of personal and interpersonal conflict, essential to such central human goods as wisdom, autonomy, and consensus. The second unifying idea is that we have a system for such reflective evaluation which yields acceptance (in relation to beliefs) or preference (in relation to the objects of desires). The third unifying idea is that there are 'keystones' of evaluation in this system: loops of trustworthiness that are themselves supported by the structure that they hold together. Self-trust is the basis of our trustworthiness, on which reason, knowledge, and wisdom are grounded.
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  • Author

    Keith Lehrer

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 1997

  • Weight

    427g

  • Page Count

    216

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198236658

  • ISBN-10

    0198236654

  • Eden Code

    4562787

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