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Rationalism
Rationalism meaning
The theory that reason is a source of knowledge independent of and superior to sense perception. | The theory that knowledge may be derived by deductions from a priori concepts (such as axioms, postulates or earlier deductions). | A view that the fundamental method for problem solving is through reason and experience rather than faith, inspiration, revelation, intuition or authority.
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Although Peirce severely criticized many elements of Descartes' peculiar brand of rationalism, he did not reject rationalism outright.
The 11th-century St Anselm put forth the opinion that faith and rationalism were compatible and encouraged rationalism in a Christian context.
Not so long ago, socialism was considered an outlier political movement, constrained somewhat to the fringe of politics and contained by the ‘common sense’ of free-market rationalism.
Johnson, a cartoonist and a political activist who created classic works such as “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” championed the power of children’s imagination over the lure of bourgeois rationalism.
For rationalism, the ontological unit of analysis is the individual, whose strategic interaction forms the basis of political explanation.
It aims at secularism, rationalism and equalism as against dogma, superstition and mysticism.
Scientific rationalism will drive policy, not the interest of oil and coal companies and their pathetic piece of shit ideological fellow travelers.
Alec Golding was a socialist who advocated science-inspired rationalism, and the young Golding and his elder brother Joseph attended the school where his father taught.
Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors.
An early adversary of Popper's critical rationalism, Karl-Otto Apel attempted a comprehensive refutation of Popper's philosophy.
A strong collection of essays by Popper, Campbell, Munz, Flew, et al., on Popper's epistemology and critical rationalism.
Bartley also refers to a third position, which he calls critical rationalism in a more specific sense, claimed to have been Popper's view in his Open Society.
Breton's return to France after the War, began a new phase of Surrealist activity in Paris, and his critiques of rationalism and dualism found a new audience.
Burke imitated Bolingbroke's style and ideas in a reductio ad absurdum of his arguments for atheistic rationalism, demonstrating their absurdity.
But the Edmund party carries bold rationalism to such extremes that it becomes madness: a madness-in-reason, the ironic counterpart of Lear's "reason in madness" (IV.6.190) and the Fool's wisdom-in-folly.
By the 1920s, the architectural taste have begun to shift in favor of rationalism and modernist movement, particularly there was increasing art deco architecture.
Dr. Wolfgang Riedel, Die Weimarer Klassik und ihre Geheimbuende,2002, p. 112 Weishaupt's radical rationalism and vocabulary were not likely to succeed.
Ed., Kiriat Yearim, Zurich, 2008 (German and French) * 'The Tel-Aviv School : a constrained rationalism' (Catherine Weill-Rochant)DOCOMOMO journal (Documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement), April 2009.
Empiricist doubts Rationalism and empiricism have had many definitions, most concerned with specific schools of philosophy or groups of philosophers in particular countries, such as Germany.
For Buber, the fundamental fact of human existence, too readily overlooked by scientific rationalism and abstract philosophical thought, is "man with man", a dialogue that takes place in the so-called "sphere of between" ("das Zwischenmenschliche").