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rationalism

A general term for the group of philosophic schools that reject received or authoritarian wisdom and dogmatic religion and hold that knowledge is to be obtained only from observation and the application of logic to data so derived. Rationalism does not necessarily exclude religious beliefs, but tends to do so.

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(47.) Balthasar links the absence of motherhood, and therefore also of fatherhood in the proper sense, with the rationalistically conceived "production" characteristic of technology.

"Something not to be grasped": notes on equality on the occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of Mulieris Dignitatem

(2) However, we may be tempted, with Ellis (2001), Miscevic (2003) and perhaps Elder (2004), to be realists about natural necessity but opponents of a priori modal knowledge construed rationalistically. (3) The main airo of this article is to suggest that such temptation should probably be resisted.

Rationalism and modal knowledge

As long as the agent acts on his own motives--without external duress or manipulation--his action is free in the standard (rather than rationalistically reconfigured) sense of the term.

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Although the independence of Heidegger's thinking had also impressed Carnap, he remained philosophically bound to the rationalistically oriented Neo-Kantianism as represented by Cassirer.

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While Nehamas imagines the futurity of our involvement with beauty to be only an analogue of Stendhal's "promise of happiness," a durability of interest, I would prefer to think of our futurity with respect to the artwork in more rationalistically proactive terms.