{"product_id":"reason-and-spontaneity-a-new-solution-to-the-problem-of-fact-and-value-9781922169389","title":"Reason and Spontaneity: A New Solution to the Problem of Fact and Value","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest renowned for his ground-breaking work as a British sinologist in classical Chinese thought, A. C. Graham (1919-1991) wrote a number of non-historical philosophical works. \u003cem\u003eThe Problem of Value\u003c\/em\u003e (Quirin Press 2019), initially published in 1961, was his first foray in this fruitful vain. As such it can be said that it both represented and was a precursor to his wide-ranging exploration on the nature of thought itself. Through linguistic analysis Graham clarifies the various approaches and types of reasoning \"by which each of us seeks his own answers.\" Along the way he takes up the challenge first raised by linguistic philosophers such as Wittgenstein and explores such essential human themes as the nature of egoism; morals; poetry; myth; cosmology; mysticism; and Zen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the editors Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames point out in their introduction to \u003cem\u003eHaving a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality\u003c\/em\u003e (a volume of critical reflections on the work of Graham published by the SUNY Press, 2018): \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Graham's self-declared \"hobby horses\" was the topic of spontaneity in Chinese philosophy in which he saw a novel solution to the Western fact\/value dichotomy. Graham began to elaborate on spontaneity in an early monograph, The Problem of Value (1961), gave it a full reconsideration in his Reason and Spontaneity (1985), and ended up bumping into this topic wherever he looked...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReason and Spontaneity: A New Solution to the Problem of Fact and Value\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Graham rejects both Kantian rationalism and romantic irrationalism in favor of a notion of self in which awareness integrates reason and spontaneity\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Raphals \"Reason and Spontaneity Reconsidered\" in Defoort \u0026amp; Ames, Eds., 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuirin Press is proud to announce that as part of our commitment to A.C. Graham's \"hobby horse,\" following the publication of this second monograph, we plan to re-publish Graham's remaining title in the series of works on his own \"thinking about thinking: \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnreason Within Reason: Essays on the Outskirts of Rationality\u003c\/em\u003e (mid 2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraham, Angus Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"A. C. Graham (1919 - 1991) was Professor of classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, a noted sinologist who specialized in Chinese philosophical thought and the textual and linguistic problems of Chinese philosophical literature.\"","brand":"Quirin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861761364242,"sku":"9781922169389","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f82d257-acb0-41c6-9a0b-29c779a5a3f1.jpg?v=1737605452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reason-and-spontaneity-a-new-solution-to-the-problem-of-fact-and-value-9781922169389","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}