Summary Of Fogelin's Walking The Tightrope Of Reason

In Fogelin’s book Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal, Fogelin claims that any forms of reason or logic should all be left to their own devices and between themselves through 1) skepticism and relativism and 2) rationalist metaphysics. On many different issues, we as thinkers and philosophers are exposed to opposing extremes to a common disjunctive principle. Fogelin in his book does forfeit the idea that some choices are unavoidable, and in many cases, we will never be entirely free from making such radical choices ourselves and we will make our own choices work within the “ordinary, workday world” (5). This particular perspective of reason’s usefulness within limits, and self-destructiveness beyond these certain limits.

Chapter One
We are brought into understanding the law of non-contradiction which Fogelin brands radical opponents of a law Heracliteans (partisans of dynamism and diversity) and then labels traditional defenders of a logical law parmenideans (partisans of stability and unity). While Fogelin uncovers to what seems to be a joint assumption by two opposing philosophy views, through the chapter we see solutions that are brought forth …show more content…
Fogelin develops a form of reasons that help with the issues of skeptical solutions within this chapter and that we must engage within the world to have reason serve us rather that serving the world and developing a form of Casual Wisdom it what we should strive for. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, this statements allow us to see our own beliefs where we do not believe in dilemmas or paradoxes within rules, but just how these “works of art” resonate through us as