Both these Córdoban philosophers took on the task of reconciling reason with faith, of proving that there was a God.
According to the maximizing conception, the fundamental task of practical reason is to determine which course of action would optimally advance the agent's complete set of ends.
If this is right, and if we assume as well a realist or at least non-subjectivist conception of value, then a different way of thinking about the task of practical reason comes into view.
As Watson puts it, "a central task of public reason arguments, in the context of social hierarchy and inequality, is to expose the ways in which background conditions (inequalities) undermine the necessary conditions for reasonable deliberations among citizens to occur" (Watson 2007, 470).
Ai is uniquely suited to the task, for reasons of artistic as well as personal political history.
Many philosophers take this holistic approach to be the most promising way of thinking about the tasks of practical reason.
For these reasons, the task of critically understanding the risks and opportunities associated with PES is both urgent and significant.
Because the transcendental method anchors philosophy in facts (eminently the fact of mathematical physics), of which philosophy is to establish the conditions of possibility or justification (Rechtsgrund).[15] By limiting itself to this task of justification, philosophical reason keeps itself from ascending into the aether of speculation.
If I sound dismissive, it's just because I'm still looking for all the reasons it would have been right not to watch the show, before I get to the more difficult task of specifying the reasons that not watching would have been a loss.
Basing his precepts on a literal interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics, he argued that Nature was governed by reason and that it was the task of poets to imitate reason as it manifested itself in Nature.
