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UNDERSTANDING RATIONALITY IN HOBBES AND HUME

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Chung H.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2014
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vol. 69
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issue 8
687 – 696
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Many commentators think that Hobbes was committed to an instrumental view of rationality which foreshadows that of David Hume. The Humean conception of instrumental rationality is a conjunction of the following two claims: (a) no preferences or desires can properly be said to be irrational in themselves, and (b) the role of reason or rationality can be only confined to informing the agent with true beliefs about the world, and revealing the most effective means that could satisfy the agent’s current ends whatever they happen to be. In this paper, the author argues that, unlike what many people think, a careful reading of Hobbes shows that he was committed to neither of these claims.
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ON RATIONALITY OF SUICIDE (Racjonalnosc instrumentalna samobójstwa)

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Stepnik A.
Edukacja Filozoficzna
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2009
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issue 48
101-108
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The text is a discussion with Roman Piotr Godlewski's argument against rationality of suicide, comprised in his article Ontological Mistake of Suicide. The autrhor tries to bring the tacit premises of his argument out and demonstrate that the premises are questionable. The objection of his consideration is to prove that Godlewski's argument is inconclusive and suicide can be rational (in instrumental sense).
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