TY - BOOK AU - Sandel,Adam Adatto TI - The place of prejudice: a case for reasoning within the world SN - 9780674416222 AV - BJ1031 .S26 2014eb U1 - 170/.42 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Ethics KW - Reasoning KW - Prejudices KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Ethics & Moral Philosophy KW - bisacsh KW - Social KW - Political KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260) and index; Introduction; Prejudice reconsidered --; The case against prejudice --; The case for situated understanding : Heidegger on being-in-the-world --; Situated agency : the implication of being-in-the-world for freedom --; The role of prejudice in the study of history : Gadamer on past and present --; The role of prejudice in moral judgment : a hermeneutic reading of Aristotle --; Prejudice and rhetoric N2 - Today we associate prejudice with ignorance and bigotry and consider it a source of injustice. So how can prejudice have a legitimate place in moral and political judgment? In this ambitious work, Adam Sandel shows that prejudice, properly understood, is not an unfortunate obstacle to clear thinking but an essential aspect of it. The aspiration to reason without preconceptions, he argues, is misguided UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=778930 ER -