Rational Decision
To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them. No one interested in social ideas can fail to notice how large a part the word "decision" has come to play in the vocabulary of moral and political discourse. It meets one on every page. Inevitably one asks, "Why?" Why is there so much talk of decisions and of those who are said to make them? Are there any ideological reasons for it? In asking such questions, and in offering "ideology" as an...
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To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them. No one interested in social ideas can fail to notice how large a part the word "decision" has come to play in the vocabulary of moral and political discourse. It meets one on every page. Inevitably one asks, "Why?" Why is there so much talk of decisions and of those who are said to make them? Are there any ideological reasons for it?
\ From the Publisher“The question common to most of the essays in this volume concerns the degree of relevance of reason or rationality to legal and political decision-making. The volume. . . presents a considerable range of positions, and considers a number of the important issues.” —Richard E. Flathman, The American Political Science Review “Rational Decision, the work of many skilled minds on an important subject.” —Richard E. Twohy, The Journal of Politics\ \
