How Long to Read Walking the Tightrope of Reason

How Long Does it Take to Read Walking the Tightrope of Reason?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Walking the Tightrope of Reason by Robert Fogelin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Human beings are both supremely rational and deeply superstitious, capable of believing just about anything and of questioning just about everything. Indeed, just as our reason demands that we know the truth, our skepticism leads to doubts we can ever really do so. In Walking the Tightrope of Reason, Robert J. Fogelin guides readers through a contradiction that lies at the very heart of philosophical inquiry. Fogelin argues that our rational faculties insist on a purely rational account of the universe, yet at the same time, the inherent limitations of these faculties ensure that we will never fully satisfy that demand. As a result of being driven to this point of paradox, we either comfort ourselves with what Kant called "metaphysical illusions" or adopt a stance of radical skepticism. No middle ground seems possible and, as Fogelin shows, skepticism, even though a healthy dose of it is essential for living a rational life, "has an inherent tendency to become unlimited in its scope, with the result that the edifice of rationality is destroyed." In much Postmodernist thought, for example, skepticism takes the extreme form of absolute relativism, denying the basis for any value distinctions and treating all truth-claims as equally groundless. How reason avoids disgracing itself, walking a fine line between dogmatic belief and self-defeating doubt, is the question Fogelin seeks to answer. Reflecting upon the ancient Greek skeptics as well as such thinkers as Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Whitman, this book takes readers into--and through--some of philosophy's most troubling paradoxes.

How long is Walking the Tightrope of Reason?

Walking the Tightrope of Reason by Robert Fogelin is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Walking the Tightrope of Reason Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Walking the Tightrope of Reason aloud.

What Reading Level is Walking the Tightrope of Reason?

Walking the Tightrope of Reason is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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