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- major figure in the history to whom some rationalist doctrine has not been ... Immanuel Kant is the paradigm of an anti-rationalist philosopher. A major ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- in stark opposition to the then-dominant rationalist Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy ... was a staunch opponent to the hyper-rationalist Christian Wolff, and his ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- Wang is usually characterized as a rationalist. Though there were other rationalist works, notably fragments of the Hsin-Lung (新論; New Discourses ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- revelation. Their use of analogy and rationalist explanations were eventually ... on the reading of the Qur’an from a rationalist standpoint. Later, Mu ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- Jacobi's strenuous objection to rationalist orientaion in philosophy ... Jacobi's strenuous objection to a rationalist orientation and systematic ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- the universe that had its (often quite rationalist) sources in ancient Greece ... and John Locke. In many ways more a rationalist than an empiricist, Shaftesbury ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- philosophy, and literature. He was a rationalist and a materialist, believing ... about the universe. He was a strong rationalist, relying heavily on mathematics ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- modern philosophy, particularly within the rationalist tradition. ==Cartesian origin== ===Aim of Descartes’s Methodic Doubt === Descartes exemplified ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 16:27, 9 November 2022
- from 1926 to 1930. The leading rationalist, Ladovsky, designed his ... Pravda building or Ladovsky’s rationalist vestibules for the Moscow ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- of the Talmud in 500 C.E.. Influenced by the rationalist school of thought and generally showing a preference for a natural (as opposed to miraculous ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- This theory contrasts with the rationalist view that concepts are perceptions (or recollections, in Plato's term) of an independently existing ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- * Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) * The Sovereignty of Good (1970) * The Fire and the Sun (1977) * Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- Following both Descartes and Locke, continental rationalist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz recognized the need for a middle road. He introduced the ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- ===Rationalist theories=== Rationalist theories of war assume that both sides to a potential ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- point had been the systematic work of the arch-rationalist Leibniz. Wolff believed that all truths were based on the principle of non-contradiction ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- of the Puritan divines, with their anti-rationalist (if not anti-intellectual ... * Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare. The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments. The ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- was both an intuitionist and a mechanistic rationalist, hence a dualist. On the one hand, be believed that through understanding, given sufficient ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 12:47, 6 November 2021
- differs from the modern Western rationalist tradition extending from ... also distanced themselves from rationalist philosophies and insisted ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- This was not an issue for the rationalist philosophers such as Descartes, since Cartesian dualism posited a supernatural "homunculus" ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- of philosophical truth). No other major rationalist saw human reason as having ... While being a rationalist and having certain Stoic tendencies, Spinoza ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- compare to those of the continental rationalist Descartes who, like Locke ... Leibniz. In 1704, Leibniz wrote a rationalist response to Locke's ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- It has some similarities with the rationalist approach, since it can ... ===The rationalist approach=== In this view, the ultimate goal of prayer ...32 KB (4,977 words) - 18:50, 5 May 2024
- dualism of Rene Descartes (1596-1650), a rationalist, was also instrumental in defeating the interdependence of form and matter. The Enlightenment ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- approach initiated a break with the rationalist tradition of the earlier eighteenth century, paving the way for the rise of Romanticism in Germany ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 11:03, 11 April 2024
- swept France in 1789, hoping for a rationalist reconstruction of society, and championed many liberal causes. As a result, in 1791 he was elected ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- A rationalist in the Cartesian sense (although he proned a "non-Cartesian epistemology" which was to succeed, as a new theory, to Cartesian ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- work of German mathematician and rationalist philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). He used two of Aristotle’s criteria of substance—substance ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- inherited from the middle ages by a rationalist deduction of ultimate ... Kant has been accused of being a purely rationalist deist opposed to all forms ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- volume in which Lakatos would defend a rationalist view of science and Feyerabend ... but the terrified exclamation of a rationalist who takes a closer look ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- Judaism and Jewish secularism represented a rationalist trend in reaction to the mystical enthusiasm of Hasidim and the conservatism of talmudic Orthodoxy ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 17:57, 14 December 2023
- to the Jewish masses but offended rationalist talmudists and ascetic ... talmudists who objected to his anti-rationalist approach. However, Besht ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- The epitome of the rationalist view is Descartes' I think therefore ... Rationalist epistemologies usually adopt some form of coherence theory ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- quot;). Maimonides does not entirely reject rationalist interpretation, but he opposes an exegetical approach which denies the Haggadah a hidden rationality ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- readers. He has come under criticism for this rationalist tendency in his poetry. His talents as a poet in general have also been criticized, with some ...12 KB (1,996 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Jewish philosophers. His work is unhesitatingly rationalist in spirit, both in his attempts to provide rational grounds for traditional Jewish law and ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- working with these systems. The critical rationalist Hans Albert argues that it is impossible to prove any truth with certainty, even in logic and mathematics ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- ISBN 9024734134), 23: "Utilitarian, rationalist and cognitivist positions ... mistaken. So my main task was to find a rationalist kind of non-descriptivism ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- the Dissenters and the Deists, developed a rationalist treatment of theology, raising the question of the relative roles of reason and revelation ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- ** Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Harmony, 1997); also published in a substantially ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- of reality. Plato's picture is a rationalist one, relying on a faculty of reason that was independent of the senses, and articulated the ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- to Bible study while warning against rationalist interpretations which deny the inspiration of Scripture: "For all the books which the Church ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- some of the more ridiculous aspects of modern, rationalist, bureaucratic life. Jarry's response was to create a sometimes grotesque parody ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933), a Jewish rationalist intellectual and founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, was born ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- over the loss of faith, but are trapped in the rationalist universe with no hope of breaking out. Bergman's films were highly personalized, expressing ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- vs. piecemeal induction; (2) in metaphysics, rationalist theology vs. metaphysical agnosticism; (3) in ethics, non-naturalist deontology vs. naturalist ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- profoundly influenced such anti-rationalist thinkers as Berkeley and Hume. The Search went through six editions in Malebranche’s lifetime, during ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- however, Merleau-Ponty argued also against the rationalist or idealist tradition that gave primacy to the intellect in our understanding of the world ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- translations were made. Lucian's rationalist approach permanently oriented Christian theology towards historical realism. He developed the ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Christian Wolff under Martin Knutsen, a rationalist who was familiar with ... of an early attempt at constructing a rationalist metaphysics that led him ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- * Arnaldez, R., Ibn Rushd: A Rationalist in Islam Notre Dame. IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. * Benmakhlour, A., Ibn Rushd. Paris: Les ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- He continued in this vein by developing a rationalist philosophy concerning the natural laws of progress. These views would mature into his 1851 ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- that followed the implementation of rationalist political programs, such as that of the 1789 revolution. ===Theological theory=== De Maistre gradually ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- to be the model of knowledge, and developed a rationalist theory of knowledge. However, Vico asserted that since human beings are not the makers ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- as anything other than one of the rationalist metaphysicians against whom Kant directed his critical project. Yet Wolff also was responsible ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- *Salerno, Joseph T. 1990. "Mises as Social Rationalist." Review of Austrian Economics, 4, 26-54. ==External links== All links retrieved ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- life of emotion and spirituality above the rationalist discourse, as can be seen from his philosophy of art and especially the philosophy of religion ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- bloomed when he came under the spell of rationalist theologian Conyers Middleton ... times. Gibbon's work advocates a rationalist and progressive view of ...36 KB (5,457 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- of 1800." Madison was a rationalist in religious matters and supported religious tolerance, yet warned about the entanglement of church ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- possessed the ability to hold a rationalist perspective throughout these fantastic encounters and could thereby capture the attention of psychedelic ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis. His rationalist supporters could not accept his religious intensity, and Comte approached new audiences. He expounded ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- Raskolnikov, like Dostoevsky's other rationalist characters, such as the title character in Notes from Underground and Ivan Karamazov in ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- Justice, in which some of the more rationalist and utopian statements of the first edition were modified. === Later Life === In 1796 Godwin developed ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- of the twelfth century” due to his rationalist orientation, and regarded as a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, and Lessing. He was one of the ...23 KB (3,725 words) - 01:06, 24 November 2022
- and materialists. Baruch Spinoza, a rationalist with his pantheistic recognition of only one "substance" (God or Nature, Deus sive ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- conservative, and a scientific rationalist. Much sought after as a brilliant conversationalist and dinner companion, he very early on developed ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- , the great medieval rabbi and rationalist, Rabbi Saadiah Gaon, and other early representatives of the Jewish faith. In the mid-twentieth century ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- reacting to the increased influence of anti-rationalist dogmatism among the Puritan divines, put forward what they conceived to be a set of rational grounds ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- …. The common foe of us both is the dogmatist-rationalist-abstractionist. Our common desire is to redeem the concrete personal life which wells up in ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- He had a paradigmatic personal conversion from rationalist skepticism to fervent Christian faith, and applied his training as a fledgling lawyer to ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- leaders of the church or those moving in a rationalist direction. In 1741, Edwards published in its defense The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the ...24 KB (3,948 words) - 00:21, 4 August 2022
- " which distinguishes itself from the rationalist tradition by locating rationality in structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- versions of environmentalism. As a committed rationalist, Crichton criticized what he considers the misuse of science to support popular theories. ...24 KB (3,558 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- of his less famous contemporaries. The American rationalist Brand Blanshard was so strongly influenced by Bradley, Bosanquet, and Green (and other British ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- movement supported by Unitarians opposed to the rationalist, conservative institution they felt their religion had become. His friends Ralph Waldo Emerson ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- , Artisan (SP), Idealist (NF), and Rationalist (NT). After developing his temperament theory, Keirsey discovered the MBTI, and found that by ...29 KB (4,215 words) - 22:41, 10 November 2022
- emerge in the twentieth century in a renewed rationalist challenge to the truth claims of revealed religion. Voltaire's emphasis on reason ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- were so derived made Hobbes suspicious of rationalist attempts to derive substantive truths from those ideas alone. ===Psychology of materialism=== ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- emphasis on the Virgin Mary. In opposition to the rationalist approach adopted by scholasticism, Bernard preached an immediate faith, in which the intercessor ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- in the West. When it did it owed more to the rationalist tradition. ===Greek and Roman=== Some ancient Greek philosophers, such as Empedocles ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- Empiricism contrasts with rationalist philosophical positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge. Kant and others ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- espoused by the great seventeenth Century rationalist Baruch Spinoza.Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (A Theologico-Political Treatise) ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- insist that Plato be understood as a rationalist. In any case, the one undeniable aspect that Plato shares with both his mentor Socrates and ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- In April 1976, Dr. H. Narasimhaiah, a physicist, rationalist and then vice chancellor of Bangalore University, founded and chaired a committee "to ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- Abelard and other thinkers pioneered the rationalist theology. ... From early rationalist theology and from the teachings of Aristotle ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- as having no place in his rationalist system. Living in a time when spiritism had become fashionable, Schopenhauer considers the existence of ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- evolved from non-practicing Catholic to a Rationalist Deist. When a census-taker asked him in 1872 if he was a Catholic, Hugo replied, "No. A Freethinker ...37 KB (5,552 words) - 20:07, 3 May 2023
- Among Jewish philosophers, a rationalist view of angels developed that is still accepted by many Jews today. As enunciated by Maimonides, Gersonides ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- As a further development of the rationalist position, many feel that theories of divine creation blatantly conflict with modern science, especially ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- populist, and imbued with a kind of French rationalist vision of the state that was Napoleonic in spirit. Socialism was not initially part of the project ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- later espoused by the seventeenth century rationalist Baruch Spinoza.Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (A Theologico-Political Treatise ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- of Newton and Robert Boyle was promoted by rationalist pamphleteers as a viable alternative to the belief systems of pantheists (who considered ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- already abandoned pietism and adopted the rationalist spirit of Christian Wolff and Johann Salomo Semler. As a theology student, Schleiermacher ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- elevated stroke risk, Dick began seeking other rationalist and religious explanations for these experiences. He referred to the "transcendentally ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- stands in opposition to both formalist and rationalist schools of philosophy. Rather, pragmatism holds that it is only in the struggle of intelligent ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- without foundations in the form of critical rationalist libertarianism, most notably in his 2000 work, Escape from Leviathan. In particular, that work ...55 KB (8,054 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- Later, medieval rationalist philosophers in each of these religions put forth the view that one should not conceive of God as personal in the ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- European culture in opposition to Apollonian rationalist decadence. Nietzsche broke with Wagner following the first Bayreuth Festival, believing that ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- exchange as well as the tolerant, rationalist prose debates that circulated in that officially tolerant nation. John Bramhall, for example, had ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- Isaac Asimov was a Humanist and a rationalist.Isaac Asimov, "The Way of Reason," in In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of ...53 KB (8,012 words) - 13:28, 6 March 2024
- At the same time, the 18th century saw the rise of a rationalist/secularist trend in Europe, which rose to prominence due to the French Revolution ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
