rationalism

empiricism

Immanuel Kant

is a (problematic and life-denying) notion of relying on reason to search out truth. Begun with socrates, the idea that dry logical thinking should help one acquire knowledge over and above the body.

is problematic in that it does not see what it does not see.

The rationalist tradition has broadly been accused of not seeing what it does not see, 'failing to take account of the blindness inherent in the way problems are fomulated' (Luhmann 1993: 14)

is the most remarkable intellectual fashion of post-renaissance europe.

Oakeshott (1962a:1) characterizes rationalism as 'the most remarkable intellectual fashion of post-Renaissance Europe.'

is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

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rationalism