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Rationalism - [Lat.,=belonging to reason], in philosophy, a theory that holds that reason alone, unaided by experience, can arrive at basic truth regarding the world. Associated with rationalism is the doctrine of innate ideas and the method of logically deducing truths about the world from "self-evident" premises. Rationalism is opposed to empiricism on the


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    The Rationalists » Read Now

    by John Cottingham. 244 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    The seventeenth century saw a major revolution in our ways of thinking about such issues as the method appropriate to philosophy and science, the relation between mind and body, the nature of substance, and the place of humanity in nature. While not neglecting the lesser but still influential...
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    New Essays on the Rationalists » Read Now

    by Rocco J. Gennaro, Charles Huenemann. 420 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    This volume, which grew out of a 1995 NEH seminar on the Rationalists, presents nineteen previously unpublished papers on the work of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. These three philosophers are the most important representatives of the 17th and 18th century movement known as rationalism, which can...
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    Secularization, Rationalism, and Sectarianism: Essays in Honour of Bryan R. Wilson » Read Now

    by Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford, Karel Dobbelaere. 330 pgs.

    How secular is contemporary society? Are pockets of sectarianism embedded in societies of developed countries? This timely book examines the interweaving of politics and religion, and of tradition and innovation in a variety of cultural settings. Eminent scholars from four continents examine here...
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    The New Rationalism: The Development of a Constructive Realism upon the Basis of Modern Logic and Science, and through the Criticism of Opposed Philosophical Systems (1918) » Read Now

    by Edward Gleason Spaulding. 536 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...THE NEW RATIONALISM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONSTRUCTIVE...I have chosen the title, The New Rationalism , for a position which also becomes...evolution. Such a philosophy is...
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    A History of Freedom of Thought (Chap. VI "The Growth of Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)" and Chap. VII "The Progress of Rationalism (Nineteenth Century)") » Read Now

    by J. B. Bury. 250 pgs.

    ...92 VI THE GROWTH OF RATIONALISM SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES...127 VII THE PROGRESS OF RATIONALISM NINETEENTH CENTURY 176...whole domain of thought is termed...
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    Faith and Reason » Read Now

    by Richard Swinburne. 208 pgs.

    The practice of a religion such as Christianity is normally said to involve faith. But different theologians give different account of faith--some say it is simply a belief that God exists, other say it is trust in God. In this third and final volume of his trilogy on philosophical theology...
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    Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists » Read Now

    by Jim Herrick. 256 pgs.

    An enlightening history of deism, skepticism, and atheism from the 18th to 20th centuries.
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    Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities (Chap. 1 "Medieval, Religion, and the Roots of Rationalism: Weber's Lacuna") » Read Now

    by Lutz Kaelber. 278 pgs.

    A sociological study of religious ascetical groups in the later Middle Ages.

    Max Weber argued that medieval religious movements were an important source for the distinctive rationality of Western civilization. He intended to study precisely this theme but died before he could do so. In Schools of...

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    Rhetoric and Philosophy (Chap. 4 "Critical Rationalism: Rhetoric and the Voice of Reason") » Read Now

    by Richard A. Cherwitz, Henry W. Johnstone. 314 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...Rhetorical Relativism 89 CRITICAL RATIONALISM: RHETORIC AND THE VOICE OF REASON C. Jack Orr 105 Critical Rationalism: A Theory About Theories 107 Critical Rationalism and...
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    Political Concepts and Political Theories ("Rationalism/Antirationalism" begins on p. 52) » Read Now

    by Gerald F. Gaus. 290 pgs.

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    This is an introductory text which sets out to show how the most basic political concepts, such as freedom and justice, are woven together and given structure, forming them into comprehensive political theories such as classical liberalism.
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    An Historical Introduction to Modern Philosophy (1947) (Chap. 13 "The Rationalistic Philosophy of Modern Science" and Chap. 14 The Rationalistic Philosophy of Modern Science (Continued)") » Read Now

    by Hugh Miller. 620 pgs.

    ...ABSOLUTISM 317 18 KANT: CAN RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM BE RECONCILED...intellectual tradition of the past. Rationalism may be roughly defined as the view...the...
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    The Uses of Reason (1943) ("The Rational Use of Ideas in the Pursuit of Truth" begins on p. 25 and "The Current Ill-Repute of Rational Ideals" begins on p. 200) » Read Now

    by Arthur E. Murphy. 350 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...he tells us, is "madly in love with rationalism." 3 "The Church is accused of being...officially went on record in favor of Rationalism, and declared, against the mock...
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