Rationality in Fundamentalist and Anti-Fundamentalist Phi-losophy

Subject Areas : علوم سیاسی

Mohammad Kamalizadeh ¹ , Mir Ghasem Seyedinzadeh ² , Hassan Sadeghian Komar-e Olya ³

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Received: 2010-12-06 Accepted : 2011-05-25 Published : 2011-06-01

Keywords: Neo-Liberalism, Fundamentalist Rationality, Anti-fundamentalist Rationality, Otherness, Practical Expediency, Communicative Rationality,

Abstract :

In this article, after reviewing the difference between fundamentalist and anti-fundamentalist philosophy, the features of the rationality will be explained from the perspective of five anti-fundamentalist philosophers (Habermas, Richard Rorty, MacIntyre, Michel Foucault and Hayek). The common point stated by all these philosophers is that they all criticize metaphysics and doubt about the basis of fundamentalist narrative on the world that rely on two predicates: first, the world has rational constitution and it is possible to reduce it to precise mathematical relations and second, that basis of the world is reflected totally in the mind of human beings.