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Douglas V Porpora - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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religion rationality and experience a response to the new rational choice theory of religion
Sociological Theory, 2004Co-Authors: Colin Jerolmack, Douglas V PorporaAbstract:This paper is a critical response to the newest version of the rational choice theory of religion (RCTR). In comparison with previous critiques, this paper takes aim at RCTR's foundational assumption of psychological egoism and argues that the thesis of psychological egoism is untenable. Without that thesis, the normative aspects of religious commitment cannot be reduced validly to Instrumental Reason. On neither conceptual nor empirical grounds therefore can religion or religious commitment be defined comprehensively in terms of exchange theory. With the failure of psychological egoism as a point of departure, the paper articulates an alternative theory of religion, one based on the epistemic rationality grounded in religious experience and religious emotion.
Robin Truth Goodman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Habermasian Public Sphere: Women’s Work within the Critique of Instrumental Reason
Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public, 2020Co-Authors: Robin Truth GoodmanAbstract:As a tradition that understands public and private spheres as absolutely exclusive of one another, the liberal philosophical tradition relies on a metaphor of the social contract, where the strengthening of public decisions and collective life should happen at the expense of individual freedoms: Individuals trade a portion of their private liberties in exchange for public security protections to their person and property. Against such liberal tenets, however, the diminishing of powers in the public sector has not led to increased personal freedoms but rather the contrary. The privacy of citizens promised under liberalism—civil liberties and private expression, for example—has been compromised as much as the functionality and existence of the public sphere. The reduction of power, confidence, and investments in public regulatory and institutional bodies—for example, from welfare to education, from the overturning of the Glass-Steagull Act to the failure of the Federal Reserve system and the Security and Exchange Commission to enforce mechanisms of disclosure and accountability, from media consolidation to the squelching of public media sponsorship for minorities and local broadcasting on the public airwaves—has not led to the elevation of power in private initiative and responsibility.
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the habermasian public sphere women s work within the critique of Instrumental Reason
2010Co-Authors: Robin Truth GoodmanAbstract:As a tradition that understands public and private spheres as absolutely exclusive of one another, the liberal philosophical tradition relies on a metaphor of the social contract, where the strengthening of public decisions and collective life should happen at the expense of individual freedoms: Individuals trade a portion of their private liberties in exchange for public security protections to their person and property. Against such liberal tenets, however, the diminishing of powers in the public sector has not led to increased personal freedoms but rather the contrary. The privacy of citizens promised under liberalism—civil liberties and private expression, for example—has been compromised as much as the functionality and existence of the public sphere. The reduction of power, confidence, and investments in public regulatory and institutional bodies—for example, from welfare to education, from the overturning of the Glass-Steagull Act to the failure of the Federal Reserve system and the Security and Exchange Commission to enforce mechanisms of disclosure and accountability, from media consolidation to the squelching of public media sponsorship for minorities and local broadcasting on the public airwaves—has not led to the elevation of power in private initiative and responsibility.
Henri Gueninparacini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the moral potential of individualism and Instrumental Reason in accounting research
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2013Co-Authors: Bertrand Malsch, Henri GueninparaciniAbstract:The dominance of positivism in accounting research is at the root of a deep malaise felt by many scholars. Although the methodological limitations of positivist research, as well as the political and cultural foundations of its hegemony, have regularly been highlighted in the literature, the merits of interdisciplinarity are still denied by the major institutions dominating the field. The present paper argues that the case in favor of academic pluralism is nonetheless worth pursuing, because not only it represents a central feature of the interdisciplinary identity, but also because it provides support to those engaged in a relentless (and sometimes successful) bid for greater openness in accounting research. The paper's main goal is to promote and further this endeavor by moving the line of argument off the beaten track of methodology and domination in order to focus on morality. The largely unexplored terrain of morality can be used as a basis for original arguments supportive of intellectual pluralism that may help to raise awareness of alternative research avenues and possibilities – though it is important not to harbor unrealistic hopes. Drawing on Charles Taylors’ view of modernity, we highlight the richer moral background from which the current stress in the discipline on individualistic values and Instrumental Reason took its rise. As a result, we provide the accounting mainstream with the perspective of an alternative framework for its research agenda by (re)adopting an ethic of compassion. Merchant's (2008) analysis of the marginalization of interdisciplinary research in North America will be used as a critical basis and starting-point for our argument.
Fred Alford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reason and reparation a kleinian account of the critique of Instrumental Reason
Theory and Society, 1990Co-Authors: Fred AlfordAbstract:Critical theory is critical because it reflects on the circumstances of its own existence. It is critical too because it takes utopia seriously, which means, in part, never short-circuiting the distance between reality and Utopia. Reparative Reason, it has been argued, is no substitute for this philosophical project, but a source of support for it, one better suited to the concerns of the Frankfurt School than eros. What both reparative Reason and the reparative impulse require is guidance as to the most deserving objects of our care and concern. Critical theory can provide this guidance.
Colin Jerolmack - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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religion rationality and experience a response to the new rational choice theory of religion
Sociological Theory, 2004Co-Authors: Colin Jerolmack, Douglas V PorporaAbstract:This paper is a critical response to the newest version of the rational choice theory of religion (RCTR). In comparison with previous critiques, this paper takes aim at RCTR's foundational assumption of psychological egoism and argues that the thesis of psychological egoism is untenable. Without that thesis, the normative aspects of religious commitment cannot be reduced validly to Instrumental Reason. On neither conceptual nor empirical grounds therefore can religion or religious commitment be defined comprehensively in terms of exchange theory. With the failure of psychological egoism as a point of departure, the paper articulates an alternative theory of religion, one based on the epistemic rationality grounded in religious experience and religious emotion.