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Definition of Rationalism

Rationalism

  1. The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
  2. The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.

Rationalism Quotations

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
Francis Parker Yockey

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Francis Parker Yockey
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Rationalism Translations

rationalism in French is rationalisme
rationalism in German is Rationalismus
rationalism in Spanish is racionalismo

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