Download or read book In Praise of the Cognitive Emotions and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Education written by Israel Scheffler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays defends the ideal of rationality, but insists that rationality is not to be identified with a mental faculty or a mechanism of inference, but taken rather as the capacity to grasp principles and purposes and to evaluate them in the light of relevant reasons.