The capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information

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A woman representing Wisdom (?) giving to a philosopher (Aristotle?) the key to the treasure-house of Reason, to distinguish man from the beasts. Etching.

Ethical hermeneutics : rationality in Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of liberation / by Michael Barber.

Powers of the rational : science, technology, and the future of thought / Dominique Janicaud ; translated by Peg Birmingham and Elizabeth Birmingham.

Rhetoric in(to) science : style as invention in inquiry / Heather Brodie Graves.

Critique of pure reason / Immanuel Kant.

Aristotle's De anima in focus / [edited by] Michael Durrant.

A letter from Mr. Reason, to the high and mighty Prince the Mob

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A letter from Mr. Reason, to the high and mighty Prince the Mob