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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 ...

in stark opposition to the then-dominant rationalist Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy ... was a staunch opponent to the hyper-rationalist Christian Wolff, and his ...

Wang is usually characterized as a rationalist. Though there were other rationalist works, notably fragments of the Hsin-Lung (新論; New Discourses ...

revelation. Their use of analogy and rationalist explanations were eventually ... on the reading of the Qur’an from a rationalist standpoint. Later, Mu ...

Jacobi's strenuous objection to rationalist orientaion in philosophy ... Jacobi's strenuous objection to a rationalist orientation and systematic ...

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 ...

philosophy, and literature. He was a rationalist and a materialist, believing ... about the universe. He was a strong rationalist, relying heavily on mathematics ...

modern philosophy, particularly within the rationalist tradition. ==Cartesian origin== ===Aim of Descartes’s Methodic Doubt === Descartes exemplified ...

from 1926 to 1930. The leading rationalist, Ladovsky, designed his ... Pravda building or Ladovsky’s rationalist vestibules for the Moscow ...

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 ...

This theory contrasts with the rationalist view that concepts are perceptions (or recollections, in Plato's term) of an independently existing ...

* Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) * The Sovereignty of Good (1970) * The Fire and the Sun (1977) * Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) ...

Following both Descartes and Locke, continental rationalist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz recognized the need for a middle road. He introduced the ...

===Rationalist theories=== Rationalist theories of war assume that both sides to a potential ...

point had been the systematic work of the arch-rationalist Leibniz. Wolff believed that all truths were based on the principle of non-contradiction ...

of the Puritan divines, with their anti-rationalist (if not anti-intellectual ... * Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare. The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments. The ...

was both an intuitionist and a mechanistic rationalist, hence a dualist. On the one hand, be believed that through understanding, given sufficient ...

differs from the modern Western rationalist tradition extending from ... also distanced themselves from rationalist philosophies and insisted ...

This was not an issue for the rationalist philosophers such as Descartes, since Cartesian dualism posited a supernatural "homunculus" ...

of philosophical truth). No other major rationalist saw human reason as having ... While being a rationalist and having certain Stoic tendencies, Spinoza ...

compare to those of the continental rationalist Descartes who, like Locke ... Leibniz. In 1704, Leibniz wrote a rationalist response to Locke's ...

It has some similarities with the rationalist approach, since it can ... ===The rationalist approach=== In this view, the ultimate goal of prayer ...

dualism of Rene Descartes (1596-1650), a rationalist, was also instrumental in defeating the interdependence of form and matter. The Enlightenment ...

approach initiated a break with the rationalist tradition of the earlier eighteenth century, paving the way for the rise of Romanticism in Germany ...

swept France in 1789, hoping for a rationalist reconstruction of society, and championed many liberal causes. As a result, in 1791 he was elected ...

A rationalist in the Cartesian sense (although he proned a "non-Cartesian epistemology" which was to succeed, as a new theory, to Cartesian ...

work of German mathematician and rationalist philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). He used two of Aristotle’s criteria of substance—substance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Judaism and Jewish secularism represented a rationalist trend in reaction to the mystical enthusiasm of Hasidim and the conservatism of talmudic Orthodoxy ...

to the Jewish masses but offended rationalist talmudists and ascetic ... talmudists who objected to his anti-rationalist approach. However, Besht ...

The epitome of the rationalist view is Descartes' I think therefore ... Rationalist epistemologies usually adopt some form of coherence theory ...

quot;). Maimonides does not entirely reject rationalist interpretation, but he opposes an exegetical approach which denies the Haggadah a hidden rationality ...

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 ...

Jewish philosophers. His work is unhesitatingly rationalist in spirit, both in his attempts to provide rational grounds for traditional Jewish law and ...

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 ...

ISBN 9024734134), 23: "Utilitarian, rationalist and cognitivist positions ... mistaken. So my main task was to find a rationalist kind of non-descriptivism ...

the Dissenters and the Deists, developed a rationalist treatment of theology, raising the question of the relative roles of reason and revelation ...

** Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (Harmony, 1997); also published in a substantially ...

of reality. Plato's picture is a rationalist one, relying on a faculty of reason that was independent of the senses, and articulated the ...

to Bible study while warning against rationalist interpretations which deny the inspiration of Scripture: "For all the books which the Church ...

some of the more ridiculous aspects of modern, rationalist, bureaucratic life. Jarry's response was to create a sometimes grotesque parody ...

Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933), a Jewish rationalist intellectual and founder of the Society for Ethical Culture, was born ...

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 ...

vs. piecemeal induction; (2) in metaphysics, rationalist theology vs. metaphysical agnosticism; (3) in ethics, non-naturalist deontology vs. naturalist ...

profoundly influenced such anti-rationalist thinkers as Berkeley and Hume. The Search went through six editions in Malebranche’s lifetime, during ...

however, Merleau-Ponty argued also against the rationalist or idealist tradition that gave primacy to the intellect in our understanding of the world ...

translations were made. Lucian's rationalist approach permanently oriented Christian theology towards historical realism. He developed the ...

Christian Wolff under Martin Knutsen, a rationalist who was familiar with ... of an early attempt at constructing a rationalist metaphysics that led him ...

* Arnaldez, R., Ibn Rushd: A Rationalist in Islam Notre Dame. IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. * Benmakhlour, A., Ibn Rushd. Paris: Les ...

He continued in this vein by developing a rationalist philosophy concerning the natural laws of progress. These views would mature into his 1851 ...

that followed the implementation of rationalist political programs, such as that of the 1789 revolution. ===Theological theory=== De Maistre gradually ...

to be the model of knowledge, and developed a rationalist theory of knowledge. However, Vico asserted that since human beings are not the makers ...

as anything other than one of the rationalist metaphysicians against whom Kant directed his critical project. Yet Wolff also was responsible ...

*Salerno, Joseph T. 1990. "Mises as Social Rationalist." Review of Austrian Economics, 4, 26-54. ==External links== All links retrieved ...

life of emotion and spirituality above the rationalist discourse, as can be seen from his philosophy of art and especially the philosophy of religion ...

bloomed when he came under the spell of rationalist theologian Conyers Middleton ... times. Gibbon's work advocates a rationalist and progressive view of ...

of 1800." Madison was a rationalist in religious matters and supported religious tolerance, yet warned about the entanglement of church ...

possessed the ability to hold a rationalist perspective throughout these fantastic encounters and could thereby capture the attention of psychedelic ...

of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis. His rationalist supporters could not accept his religious intensity, and Comte approached new audiences. He expounded ...

Raskolnikov, like Dostoevsky's other rationalist characters, such as the title character in Notes from Underground and Ivan Karamazov in ...

Justice, in which some of the more rationalist and utopian statements of the first edition were modified. === Later Life === In 1796 Godwin developed ...

of the twelfth century” due to his rationalist orientation, and regarded as a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, and Lessing. He was one of the ...

and materialists. Baruch Spinoza, a rationalist with his pantheistic recognition of only one "substance" (God or Nature, Deus sive ...

conservative, and a scientific rationalist. Much sought after as a brilliant conversationalist and dinner companion, he very early on developed ...

, the great medieval rabbi and rationalist, Rabbi Saadiah Gaon, and other early representatives of the Jewish faith. In the mid-twentieth century ...

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 ...

…. 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 ...

He had a paradigmatic personal conversion from rationalist skepticism to fervent Christian faith, and applied his training as a fledgling lawyer to ...

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 ...

" which distinguishes itself from the rationalist tradition by locating rationality in structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather ...

versions of environmentalism. As a committed rationalist, Crichton criticized what he considers the misuse of science to support popular theories. ...

of his less famous contemporaries. The American rationalist Brand Blanshard was so strongly influenced by Bradley, Bosanquet, and Green (and other British ...

movement supported by Unitarians opposed to the rationalist, conservative institution they felt their religion had become. His friends Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

, Artisan (SP), Idealist (NF), and Rationalist (NT). After developing his temperament theory, Keirsey discovered the MBTI, and found that by ...

emerge in the twentieth century in a renewed rationalist challenge to the truth claims of revealed religion. Voltaire's emphasis on reason ...

were so derived made Hobbes suspicious of rationalist attempts to derive substantive truths from those ideas alone. ===Psychology of materialism=== ...

emphasis on the Virgin Mary. In opposition to the rationalist approach adopted by scholasticism, Bernard preached an immediate faith, in which the intercessor ...

in the West. When it did it owed more to the rationalist tradition. ===Greek and Roman=== Some ancient Greek philosophers, such as Empedocles ...

Empiricism contrasts with rationalist philosophical positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge. Kant and others ...

espoused by the great seventeenth Century rationalist Baruch Spinoza.Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (A Theologico-Political Treatise) ...

insist that Plato be understood as a rationalist. In any case, the one undeniable aspect that Plato shares with both his mentor Socrates and ...

In April 1976, Dr. H. Narasimhaiah, a physicist, rationalist and then vice chancellor of Bangalore University, founded and chaired a committee "to ...

Abelard and other thinkers pioneered the rationalist theology. ... From early rationalist theology and from the teachings of Aristotle ...

as having no place in his rationalist system. Living in a time when spiritism had become fashionable, Schopenhauer considers the existence of ...

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 ...

Among Jewish philosophers, a rationalist view of angels developed that is still accepted by many Jews today. As enunciated by Maimonides, Gersonides ...

As a further development of the rationalist position, many feel that theories of divine creation blatantly conflict with modern science, especially ...

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 ...

later espoused by the seventeenth century rationalist Baruch Spinoza.Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (A Theologico-Political Treatise ...

of Newton and Robert Boyle was promoted by rationalist pamphleteers as a viable alternative to the belief systems of pantheists (who considered ...

already abandoned pietism and adopted the rationalist spirit of Christian Wolff and Johann Salomo Semler. As a theology student, Schleiermacher ...

elevated stroke risk, Dick began seeking other rationalist and religious explanations for these experiences. He referred to the "transcendentally ...

stands in opposition to both formalist and rationalist schools of philosophy. Rather, pragmatism holds that it is only in the struggle of intelligent ...

without foundations in the form of critical rationalist libertarianism, most notably in his 2000 work, Escape from Leviathan. In particular, that work ...

Later, medieval rationalist philosophers in each of these religions put forth the view that one should not conceive of God as personal in the ...

European culture in opposition to Apollonian rationalist decadence. Nietzsche broke with Wagner following the first Bayreuth Festival, believing that ...

exchange as well as the tolerant, rationalist prose debates that circulated in that officially tolerant nation. John Bramhall, for example, had ...

Isaac Asimov was a Humanist and a rationalist.Isaac Asimov, "The Way of Reason," in In Pursuit of Truth: Essays on the Philosophy of ...

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 ...

Hume, and continental philosophy being more rationalist, especially in the philosophy of Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Gottfried Leibniz. ...

of the Holy Office by means of a rationalist critique and, even, Valentin de Foronda published Espíritu de los mejores diarios, a plea in favor ...

called natural theology by scholasticism and by rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It should be clear why considerations ...

. Also notable was the work of some Continental Rationalist philosophers, especially Baruch Spinoza's On the Improvement of the Understanding ...

Coherence theories distinguish the thought of rationalist philosophers, particularly of Spinoza, Leibniz, and G.W.F. Hegel, along with the British ...

Einstein was an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association beginning in 1934, and was an admirer of Ethical Culture. He served on ...

The first rationalist, in this broad sense, is often held to be Parmenides (fl. 480 B.C.E.), who argued that it is impossible to doubt that thinking ...

French feminists have a tendency to attack the rationalist Enlightenment thinking which first accorded them intellectual freedom as being itself ...

arose in reaction to the imposition of French rationalist culture. This was accompanied by the reunification of Germany as a defensive measure against ...

* Theravada has been a more rationalist, historical form of Buddhism; while Mahayana has included more rituals, mysticism, and worldly flexibility ...

to the logical expression of rational thought. Rationalist philosophers such as Kant and René Descartes held the opposite view. Around the turn of ...

which differed very much from the French rationalist Enlightenment and German romantic Counter-Enlightenment. Modern Empiricism started in England ...