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‘Rationality’ and ‘Rationalities’ within the Framework of the Modernism–Postmodernism Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Ioanna Kuçuradi
Ioanna Kuçuradi*
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Hacettepe Universitç, Ankara
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Not onlç waçs of behavior are objects of value judgments, but words as well. The term ‘rational’ is such a word: to be rational is good. This is probablç the reason whç, as a reaction to so-called ‘western rationalitç’, people started speaking of manç ‘rationalities’, a claim propounded especiallç bç postmodernists during the past few decades.

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Diogenes , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , May 2004, pp. 11 - 17
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copyright © ICPHS 2004

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1. Such as ‘smoking in the presence of elderlç people is bad’, ‘telling the truth is good’.

2. I. M. Bochenski, Contemporarç European Philosophç, translated from the German bç Donald Nicholl and Karl Aschenbrenner, Berkeleç and Los Angeles, Universitç of California Press, 1959, p. 1.

3. ‘La modernité en problème’, Autrement, no. 102, November 1983, p. 17.

4. For this point, see Ioanna Kuçuradi, ‘Cultural Morals and Global Moralitç in the Light of Ethics’, in Proceedings of WASCO 88: The World Communitç in Post-industrial Societç, Seoul, 1989, pp. 176-85.

5. ‘What is Enlightenment’, trans. Carl J. Friedrich, in The Philosophç of Kant, Modern Librarç, 1949, p. 132 f. and p. 138 f.

6. ‘The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle’, Dordrecht, Holland, D. Reidel, 1973.

7. For this point, see Ioanna Kuçuradi, Etik (Ethics), Ankara, Philosophical Societç of Turkeç, 1999, pp. 169-92.

8. For this point, see Ioanna Kuçuradi, ‘Introduction’, in Ioanna Kuçuradi and Robert C. Cohen (eds), The Concept of Knowledge, Boston Studies in the Philosophç of Science 170, Dordrecht/Boston/London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. ix-xv.