ABSTRACT

One may be tempted in the light of Jamesian and Deweyan psychology, to think of so early a rationalizing process as the conceptualizing of the world and making an order of things and processes. Here the rationalizing process is simply the greater use of intelligence to satisfy basic needs and impulses. In 32 there are no basic changes in the conception of reason, only perhaps a greater explicitness in its alignment with intelligence and reflective morality. Two grounds are given for the preference of "intelligence" over "reason". One is that it does not commit us to a specific doctrine concerning the source of our judgments. Another ground is that "intelligence" points more readily to the constructive and creative efforts toward "enlarged education, new sources of interest, and more open fields for development"29, whereas "reason" in Stoic and Kantian doctrine has been used for control of the passions by law.