Portion of Reason

Robert Hoffman is Professor of Philosophy at the York College of CUNY in Jamaica, New York.

• Part 1 Morality: Taking Morality Seriously; Vulgarity; Justice, Merit and the Good; Science and Animal Experimentation. Part 2 Education: The Irrelevance of Relevance; The Cult of Anti-Rationalism in Education; Knowledge in a University; Reflections of an Elitist; Can the Humanities Help Us?; Words Without Thought; The Captive University. Part 3 Society: Petty Despotism - Macmillan Publishing Company and Sex and Race; Marcuse's One-Dimensional Vision; More Clothes for the Emperor - "Mental Health"; Should We Try to Breed Better People?; About Pornography. Part 4 Life: Death and Dignity.

An outstanding commentary on a wide range of social issues. It is an excellent continuation of many themes developed by Sidney Hook. The lucidity and depth of the treatment would have impressed Hook himself. -- Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University An outstanding commentary on a wide range of social issues. It is an excellent continuation of many themes developed by Sidney Hook. The lucidity and depth of the treatment would have impressed Hook himself. -- Sidney Gendin, Eastern Michigan University