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Reason:: Its Power and Limitations, Uses and Abuses in Science, the humanities, Ethics and Religion
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In this book by John Hendry the author explains in a straightforward way how reason works together with our other faculties. He explores what it can do for us in different fields of enquiry, how and where it runs out on us, what the practical and political implications are, and how we might reasonably respond.
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