Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-zzh7m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-29T20:12:36.149Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Contemplation versus Reason1 An Inquiry into Human Knowledge in the Light of Theory of Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

André Mercier
Affiliation:
Former Vice-Chancellor, The University of Bern

Extract

What is Contemplation? What is Reason?

Will the answers to these questions allow one to compare and distinguish them on a common level? If this comparison and this distinction succeed and are to lead us to a better understanding of human knowledge, how do we have to conceive of that human knowledge itself? And, finally, if this is to be done in the light of a theory of values, what are values, and which values are there?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Lecture delivered at King's College, London, March 16, 1972.