This rationalism is dimissed by the Romantics, and in the Gothic fiction that develops from Romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
The sinister cast which the word rationalism bears in much of the popular speech is evidence of this fact. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
Enlightenment rationalism is also the logical basis of democracy, and Classic Liberalism (aka “conservativism”). From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Organizing Your People] Reference
Scientistic rationalism is however equally non-scientific where it mistakes a highly relevant alethic model for an epistemic certainty. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" (Lacey 286). From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
The truth is that christianity has survived much greater threats than this recent fad of so called rationalism, which isn't really rationalism at all. From Wordnik.com. [SBC severs ties with Broadway Baptist of Fort Worth | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
(ii) Another method is sometimes termed rationalism or abstract intellectualism. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
Similarly the rapid spread of so-called rationalism and Unitarian thought and Higher. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference
Aristotelian point of view by the one word rationalism, as distinguished from dogmatism and mysticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
I’m simply pointing to evidence of a bind spot in rationalism where it forgets the very qualities that make it such a powerful tool. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
This is the tradition known as rationalism in philosophy, and what I have called intellectualism is only the extreme application of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
What’s wrong with scientistic rationalism is precisely that it rejects doubt in the same way as religions do, thereby becoming a faith. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
As a solution to the Middle Mind White calls for a new kind of rationalism; Aristotle and Kant tempered with Hegel, Derrida and Adorno. From Wordnik.com. [Mired in Mediocrity « So Many Books] Reference
Of course, on further thought, 'rationalism' is sometimes taken as a synonym of 'freethought', in which case it is more of a mixed bag. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Venting of Futile Exasperation] Reference
You will find very little "rationalism" in theology. From Wordnik.com. [Drudge Retort] Reference
France took out of the country entirely that element of religious rationalism which is at once conservative and progressive. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
He subordinates leading features to accessory details, and ends in a kind of rationalism entirely opposed to the mysticism of the period. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
"rationalism" and Alexandrian culture -- not Hellenism. From Wordnik.com. [We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8] Reference
But by the same rationalism we may break up any loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
In this incendiary climate, patience and rationalism must prevail. From Wordnik.com. [The Price Of Cheap Shots] Reference
Excessive rationalism in national consciousness is itself a menace. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
In his best role in years, Alda is a monster of egomaniacal rationalism. From Wordnik.com. [Paint The Town White] Reference
In the 1700s, Benedict XIV confronted the skepticism and rationalism of the Enlightenment. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Benedict XVI] Reference
Mendelssohn, and carried his tendencies towards rationalism and culture to extreme limits. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
When strange things happen, Faraday's fanciful similes are at odds with his professed rationalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
Germany has shown us the effects of rationalism, some would say a morbid and hypertrophied reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
Its roots are in the nineteenth-century rebellion against Modernity with its scientific rationalism. From Wordnik.com. [John R. Coats: What's Real About the Rapture?] Reference
A lot of atheists hide behind rationalism; when you start probing, you find their reactions are quite emotional. From Wordnik.com. [The God Debate] Reference
The solution to the hyper-rationalism and hyper-efficiency of our food system cannot be a competing rationalism. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Hayden, M.Div.: Connecting with the Sacred Through Fasting: Could It Solve the U.S. Food Crisis?] Reference
If we accept the validity of this attitude in life we shall be inclined to regard rationalism as it is manifested to-day in. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
"Haskalah" moved in the same direction as eighteenth century rationalism which made for the abrogation of the historic faiths. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Germany, governed by the ideals of rationalism, has assumed that history can be made, wars conducted, life regulated in accordance with. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
But the true way to meet exclusive rationalism is not to discredit the function of mind, but to give to it a larger domain of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
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