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The theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
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Rationalism in politics is often seen as the midpoint in the three major political viewpoints of realism , rationalism, and internationalism . Whereas Realism and Internationalism are both on ends of the scale, rationalism tends to occupy the middle ground ...
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n. (context philosophy English) The theory that the basis of knowledge is reason, rather than experience or divine revelation.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A believer might move from one form of piety to another, embracing mysticism and rationalism at the same time. ▪ But cognitive theories' rationalism is male-identified, drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature ...
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n. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Rationalism \Ra"tion*al*ism\ (r[a^]sh"[u^]n*al*[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F. rationalisme.] (Theol.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation. (Philos.) ...
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The history of Colonies shows usSyracuse is one examplethat Culture-crises, even autopathic ones like the appearance of Rationalism, produce greater effects in them.
American autopathic tendencies, arising from the disintegratory influence of Rationalism and Materialism, are the source of the possibilities of which the Culture-distorter made use.
The Age of Rationalism, of Materialism, of Criticism, of Economics, of Democracy and Parliamentarism, in short the first phase of the Civilization Crisis, was coming to an end, and the Crisis was about to be dissolved in the new Age, that of Absolute Politics, of Authority, of Historicism.
His system seemed to have absorbed the rationalism of the Apologists and the intelligible simplicity of their moral theology, just as much as it did the Gnostic dualism with its particoloured mythology.
When Authority resurges once more against the forces of Rationalism and Economics, it proceeds at once to show that the complex of transcendental ideals with which Liberalism equipped itself is as valid as the Legitimism of the era of Absolute Monarchy, and no more.
Rationalism and Supernaturalism became the principal division of theological schools.
This same unadaptability of logic and reason to organic rhythms affects fundamentally the Nation-Idea during the period of Rationalism.
Thomas Aquinas do with the mythology of Brahminism, he who set forth all the science and rationality and even rationalism of Christianity?
This admission to Rationalism has been eagerly seized by the Coleridgean school, and elaborated in some of their writings.
Japan before it was altered by Confucian rationalism and the complex religious doctrines of Buddhism.
I proceeded to smash materialism, rationalism, and all the philosophy of Tyndall, Helmholtz, Darwin and the rest of the 1860 people into smithereens.
Crane Brinton, professor of ancient and modern history at Harvard, identified humanism, Protestantism and rationalism as the three great ideas making the modern world.
Inquisition, Jesuitry, in one word, all the peculiarities of Catholicism developed through the power of the same formal process of reasoning, so that Protestantism itself, which the Catholics reproach with rationalism, developed directly out of the rationalism of Catholicism.
Ryba had intimated that the place was almost a throwback to the white demons of Rationalism, but again, in almost two years no traders or locals had mentioned Cyador.
In its first century, Rationalism affirmed the nations as the ultimate units of history and warred against the subjection of the nations to the dynasts.