Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Symbol, Logik; Kultur

Kurzinhalt: Logik der Symbole; Institution, Kultur

Textausschnitt: () How do such symbols or symbolic meanings operate? What is the logic of symbols by which we persuade ourselves, or allow others to motivate us, to act in a certain way?
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Institutions are what people do; culture is why they do it.
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Just as the nineteenth century brought about a reversal in the priority of practical intellect over speculative intellect, in the twentieth century we have come to realize that symbolic emotional reasoning has a priority over cognitive or theoretical reasoning.