Description:
Nicholas addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a society in which people can attain fulfillment.
Brief description:
Jeffery Nicholas is assistant professor of philosophy and Catholic social thought at Providence College. He is cofounder and executive secretary of the International Society of MacIntyrean Enquiry.
Review Quotes:
"Jeffery L. Nicholas is interested in what he calls a substantive conception of reason that is tradition-based, non-formal, non-instrumental and capable of undoing modernity's differentiation of scientific, moral and aesthetic spheres of rationality. . . . Nicholas's elucidation and defense of his view comprises a critique of subjective reason that relies on Max Horkheimer's work, a criticism of Jurgen Habermas's communicative reason, and an explanation of substantive reason that looks to Alasdair MacIntyre." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews