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The Limits of Irrationality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Martin Hollis
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Extract

The anthropologist starts with an empty notebook and it seems that everything he writes in it is discovered empirically. But is it? I shall argue here that the fact that the natives are ‘rational’ in Mr. Lukes first or ‘universal’ sense is not discovered empirically and that this puts Mr. Lukes' philosophical problem in a different light.

Type
Sympathy for Alien Concepts
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , November 1967 , pp. 265 - 271
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1967

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* I have profited greatly from reading Mr. Lukes' paper and should also like to thank him warmly for many earlier discussions of the issues it raises.