In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1991, In Praise of Cognitive Emotions comprises fourteen of Scheffler''s most recent essays – all of which challenge contemporary notions of education and rationality. While defending the ideal of rationality, he insists that rationality not be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference but taken rather as the capactity to grasp principles and purposes and to e...