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Reason requires that we do what is appropriate in matters of belief,evaluation, and action — that we use our intelligence to figure out the proper thing to do and then do it. But why should we do what reason demands? Why heed the demands of reason?
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Some of the themes of this discussion are further developed in Chap. 3, “The Rationale of Rationality,” of the author’s Rationality (Oxford, 1988).
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Rescher, N. (1995). Why be Rational?. In: Satisfying Reason. Episteme, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0483-8_2
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