61. Philosophy Talk: The Blog Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist and mathematician who is the father of analytic geometry in mathematics and modern rationalism in philosophy. http://theblog.philosophytalk.org/

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62. Materialism Scientistic Materialism is usually associated with rationalism A lot of analytical philosophy revolves around the socalled mind-brain problem, http://www.kheper.net/topics/worldviews/materialism.htm

Kheper Home World Views Home Topics Index Esotericism ... Guestbook Materialism note: the word Materialism is here used to indicate a particular philosophical position, rather than a hedonistic lifestyle. A less well-knwon but more precise term is Physicalism Materialism is the si mplest (or most simplistic) explanation of reality: the belief that all that exists is the physical; there are no higher realities; no psychic or spiritual truths independent of the physical world . Materialism itself is a meme , a specific, culturally determined way of thinking about reality A slightly longer definition: Philosophical materialism (physicalism) is the metaphysical view that there is only one substance in the universe and that substance is physical, empirical or material. Regarding the "big questions", the sceptical or Materialistic explanation of the universe is that everything is matter and energy, and there is nothing else. Spiritual substance is a delusion. Consciousness is explained simply as an emergent phenomenon of the physical brain . There can therefore be no such things as the "supernatural ", paranormal phenomena

63. Victorian Philosophical Anti-Rationalism :: Term Papers, Essays - Free Summary O A look at the antipractical, anti-utilitarian philosophy of Matthew Arnold, John Henry Newman, and Walter Pater. http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/55344.html

Home Sell Buy FAQs ... Contact Us Welcome to AcaDemon We have thousands of high-quality term papers, research papers, essays, book reports and dissertations on every topic. At AcaDemon, you can download those term papers to help you write yours! You can be sure that the term paper, essay, book report or research paper, you download are top-quality, competitively priced and high-level work. Papers on "Victorian Philosophical Anti-Rationalism" and similar term paper topics: Paper #055344 :: Victorian Philosophical Anti-Rationalism - Buy and instantly download this paper now A look at the anti-practical, anti-utilitarian philosophy of Matthew Arnold, John Henry Newman, and Walter Pater. 1,237 words, 3 sources, MLA, $ 43.95 USD Paper Summary: From the Paper: "The Victorian era in England gave birth to Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian philosophy of social governance, to the scientific philosophy of Darwinism, and to the application of scientific principles to social philosophy in the form of Social Darwinism. Perhaps this scientific and methodical era, an era that oversaw the full flowering of the Industrial Revolution's stress upon machinery into the transformation into the human body and mind as a machine-like worker drone, inevitably spawned a kind of counter-revolutionary philosophy and ethos for the age-namely the idea and ideals that cohered and evolved over the course of the Oxford Movement, the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movement, and finally coalesced into the austere vision of the poet and philosopher Matthew Arnold."

64. Eastern And Western Philosophy philosophy OF FREETHINKER HUMANISM AND rationalism. A Brief Introduction to Krishnamurti s The philosophy of rationalism by The Radical Academy http://www.uni-giessen.de/~gk1415/philosophy.htm

Philosophy is the noblest heritage of mankind, the eternal search for absolute truth. An effort free from emotion to assess the situation of mankind in the cosmos Philosophy Quick Index Reference Eastern Philosophy Western Philosophy Political Philosophy Net Resources: ... German Resources For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory -.."we must turn to those" ... kinds of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao-Tzu have been confronted, when trying harmonise our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence Niels Bohr - Danish Physicist from " Atomic physics and Human knowledge" EASTERN PHILOSOPHY Believe nothing ! Belief is a confession of ignorance ! Therefore do not even believe what even I tell you ! All I can do is to teach you to enlighten yourselves. Your first duty is to abolish your ignorance, and only you yourselves can do this Buddha Indian Philosophy Indian Philosophy by David J Melling Indian philosophy before the Greeks by David J Melling Indian Philosophy and Religion maintainedGomu Wisdom of Emptiness History of Budhhism in India Sanskrit Manuscripts at the PENN Library Theravada Text Archives download Buddhist Studies BuddhaNet.

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66. UVA Philosophy: Spring 2004 Graduate Courses Interested students may get a more detailed conception of these ideas from James Doyle, Moral rationalism and Moral Commitment, philosophy and http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/courses-gradcurrent.html

Fall 2003 Graduate Courses SPRING 2004 GRADUATE COURSES PHIL 517 KANT: CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON [3] Prof. Lomasky (M 1800-2030) Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is universally acknowledged to be one of the most profound and influential philosophical works ever produced. It is also a very demanding work, one that makes few concessions to readers. Kant, alas, never took a UVA writing course, and so ideas that under the best of conditions are inherently difficult receive from him a prose expression that often obscures. But with all due regard to the hurdles, this is a work that contains so much terrific philosophy that to avoid is more costly than to embrace. This course will be a close, comprehensive and cooperative reading of the entire text. Participants are free to consult whatever commentaries they may wish, but the primary source (in translation!) is our sole official charge. PHIL 547 PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS [3] Mr. Cargile (T R l400-l5l5) A comparison of various schools in the philosophy of mathematics (including logicism, formalism, and conceptualism) and their answers to such questions as "Do numbers exist?" and "How is mathematical knowledge possible?" Prerequisite: Some familiarity with quantifier logic [PHIL 242] or permission of instructor. PHIL 550 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE [3] Prof. Green (T 0930-1200)

67. Philosophy.com: After Economic Rationalism The Kekes book is a development of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. John s account of this form of economic rationalism in Australia states that http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/000475.html

Philosophy.Com 'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals Main June 22, 2003 after economic rationalism This review of John Kekes, The Art of Life , (Cornell University Press, 2002) is via Lawrence Blum. This book is a step away from philosophy as abstract theorizing in academia towards the particular and concrete. The Kekes book is a development of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. That idea of philosophy is one of a life of examination-both of one's own life and an examination of the culture in which one lives. The point of this self-reflection and the art of living well is to achieve a good life that enables human and non-human flourishing. The Kekes book takes this further. In the first part of the book Kekes gives five types of concrete good lives of personal excellence: those of self-direction, decency, moral authority, depth and honour. Part two examines in four chapters the general conditions for practising the art of life and develops some of the ideas which emerged from the examination in part one. Part three, the final chapter, draws together the threads of the various arguments to provide 'one possible and reasonable approach to living a good life?. Judging from the review, the limitation of this book is the absence of "the political" as well as "politics". If we talk about about living a good life and accept that there is a deep conflict about what constitutes the good life (eg., wealth creation versus sustainablity) then we step into the political. Often we get roadblocks to the need to turn to the political. We stay with economics in the public sphere and sideline living the good life to the private sphere.

68. UMass Philosophy - Aune Reviewed ca 1968 in eg Philosophical Review, Mind. rationalism, Empiricism, and Pragmatism (New York Random House, 1970; reissue McGrawHill), pp. 190. http://www.umass.edu/philosophy/faculty/aune.htm

UMass Amherst Department of Philosophy Home Contacts Faculty Graduate ... Newsletter FACULTY DIRECTORY Aune Baker Bricker Chappell ... Sleigh Bruce A. Aune aune@philos.umass.edu Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1960 Appointed at UMass: 1966 Prior Teaching Appointments: Instructor in Philosophy, Oberlin College, 1960-62. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1963-65. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Summer, 1965. Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure), University of Pittsburgh, 1965-66. Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Visiting Research Professor, University of Minnesota and Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, Fall, 1965. Professor of Philosophy and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1966-71. Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1966-. Professor and Acting Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1975-76.

69. Philosophy > Movements > Rationalism rationalism. philosophy Movements rationalism Its mission was, among other goals, to promote rationalism and secular education as well as to publish http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/BUS/r_PHI032/p_1/Rationalism.htm

PowerSearch: Libri Italiani English Books DVD Reparto Selezionato Philosophy Aesthetics Criticism Epistemology ... Religious Altri Reparti Architecture Art Computers Cooking ... True Crime Rationalism Philosophy Movements Uncertaintyism Autore: Keith N. Ferreira iUniverse, February 2005 "Uncertaintyism is the philosophical belief that states that uncertainty is the only certainty. "Uncertaintyism" is one of many articles in this book of philosophical articles.... ( Continua The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationist Press Association Autore: Bill Cooke Prometheus Books, July 2004 In 1899, a small group of men under the leadership of Charles Albert Watts founded the Rationalist Press Association (RPA) in London. Its mission was, among other goals, to promote rationalism and secular education as well as to publish freethought books at affordable prices. For... ( Continua The Age of Reason Autore: Thomas Paine Kessinger Publishing, June 2004 THESE books, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelations, (which, by the bye, is a book of riddles that requires a revelation to explain it) are, we are told, the word of God. It is, therefore, proper for us to know who told us so,... ( Continua The Oxford Handbook of Rationality Redattori: Piers Rawling, Alfred R. Mele

70. Faculty Neville Professor of philosophy, Religion, and Theology, Dean Emeritus of the School of American philosophy, continental rationalism, philosophy of religion, http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/neville.html

Philosophy Department Faculty Previous Next Philosophy Department Robert C. Neville rneville@bu.edu Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, Dean Emeritus of the School of Theology, Dean of Marsh Chapel and Chaplain of the University (PhD, Yale University); Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Theology, Ethics, Political Theory, American Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy. Robert Neville has taught at Yale University, Fordham University, The State University of New York College at Purchase, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of: God the Creator The Cosmology of Freedom Soldier, Sage, Saint Creativity and God Reconstruction of Thinking The Tao and the Daimon The Puritan Smile Recovery of the Measure Behind the Masks of God A Theology Primer The High Road around Modernism Eternity and Time's Flow Normative Cultures The Truth of Broken Symbols The God Who Beckons Boston Confucianism Symbols of Jesus Religion in Late Modernity Dr. Neville has published many articles and critical reviews in philosophy and religious studies.

71. Medieval Judaism: Rationalism And Philosophy rationalism and philosophy. Limited primarily to Sepharadic realm. Tendency towards systematic thought affects additional activities; eg, codification of http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/RelS369/B04b_MedievalRationalism.html

Notes for Religious Studies 369: Introduction to Judaism Basic Concepts from S. Daniel Breslauer, Understanding Judaism through History Medieval Judaism Rationalism and Philosophy Limited primarily to Sepharadic realm. Tendency towards systematic thought affects additional activities; e.g., codification of religious law. Rediscovery of Greek philsophical tradition by Muslim Arabs. Translation of Plato, Aristotle and others from Syriac to Arabic. Usefulness for arguing truth of monotheis, morality and other features of traditional revealed religions. Philosophers tend to be more universalistic in outlook, less emphasis on special status of Jewish people. Sa'adiah Ga'on: Book of Doctrines and Opinions Composed in Arabic, in style of Muslim Kalam literature. Presumes that philosophy/science and revealed religion lead to same conclusions. Raises question: Why is there need for two sources of truth? Problem of divine attributes: If multiple qualities apply to God, can he truly be "one"? Solution: Most attributes are mere metaphors directed to limitations of human mind. I God there is no real distinction. Anthropomorphism: All language that suggests that God is physical or human-like should be understood as figures of speech, and never literally.

72. New Humanist January 2004 In philosophy, however, rationalism means something much more specific. rationalism is not, however, a philosophical dead duck by any means. http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/volume119issue1_more.php?id=487_0_25_0_C

73. Environmental Philosophy And Ethics: Knowledge Of The Environment. Ultimately in this way, rationalism is linked up with the recognition of the necessity of Redman, D. (1991) Economics and the philosophy of Science. http://ecospace.newport.ac.uk/philosophy/cssratis.html

Environmentalism, Rationalism and Ethics CRITICAL RATIONALISM: "It thus leads, almost by necessity, to the realisation that our attempts to see and to find the truth are not final, but open to improvement, our knowledge, our doctrine, is conjectural; that it consists of guesses, of hypothesis, rather than that of final and certain truths: and that criticism and critical discussion are our only means of getting nearer to the truth. It thus leads to the tradition of bold conjectures and of free criticism, the tradition that created the rational or scientific attitude, and with it our Western Civilisation, the only civilisation which is based upon science.................... Karl Popper (1958). The Beginnings of Rationalism. From A Pocket Popper. Edited by David Miller (1983). Fontana Press. p 29. Key characteristics of critical rationalism. It is a methodological approach involving: A consideration of the arguments of other people regardless of their status. It aims at equity and reduces domination by one particular group. An emphasis on testable statements, experimentation and refutation.

74. Descartes's Courses Introduction to philosophy, Descartes, rationalism, philosophy in the 17th Century. The book is suitable for adoption as both a main or http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521809819

75. HISTORY, INDIA, Philosophical Development, Upanishads, Scientific Realism, Logic Upanishadic philosophy preparing the ground for rationalism. Although the Upanishadic texts (like some of the earlier Vedic texts) are primarily concerned http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/upanishad.html

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76. Department Of Philosophy - University Of Toronto Research interests 17th century rationalism, philosophy of law, The Department of philosophy at U of T is not responsible for content provided by http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/site/people/profile.html?id=337

77. Jewish Philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy Online Students of Jewish philosophy, especially those who aspire to contribute a The rationalism, pluralism and intellectual honesty evident in his work made http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/J066

HOME HELP Article Bibliography ... Jewish philosophy L.E. GOODMAN Jewish philosophy Jewish philosophy is philosophical inquiry informed by the texts, traditions and experiences of the Jewish people. Its concerns range from the farthest reaches of cosmological speculation to the most intimate theatres of ethical choice and the most exigent fora of political debate. What distinguishes it as Jewish is the confidence of its practitioners that the literary catena of Jewish tradition contains insights and articulates values of lasting philosophical import. One mark of the enduring import of these ideas and values is their articulation in a variety of idioms, from the mythic and archetypal discourse of the Book of Genesis to the ethical and legislative prescriptions of the Pentateuch at large, to the admonitions of the Prophets, the juridical and allegorical midrash and dialectics of the Rabbis, and to the systematic demonstrations, flights of imagination, existential declarations and apercus of philosophers in the modern or the medieval mode. 1 The nature of Jewish philosophy The philosophy of Judaism wants to understand Zionism, the Holocaust, the Jewish Diaspora and the historical vicissitudes that gave shape to Jewish experience over the millennia, from the age of the biblical patriarchs to the destruction of the first and second temples in Jerusalem, to the exile of the Jewish people and the return of many, after a hundred generations, to the land they had been promised and in which they had prospered, a land which some had never left but which most, for centuries, had pictured only through the sublimating lenses of sacred history, apocalypse and philosophy. The philosophy of Judaism wants to understand the ancient Jewish liturgy, the exegetical practices and hermeneutical standards of the Jewish exegetes. Like

78. Law, Philosophy Of : Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy Online In a wide sense, all these approaches may be ascribed to rationalism, as contrasted It may be that in the end legal philosophy is faced, today as at its http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/T001

HOME HELP Article Bibliography ... Law, philosophy of BEVERLEY BROWN NEIL MacCORMICK Law, philosophy of Implicit in the opposition of reason and will is the question of practical reason: does reason have a truly practical role concerning ultimate ends and nonderivative principles of action, or is it only ancillary to pursuit of ends or fulfilment of norms set by will? Alternatively, does reason already presuppose custom and usage, and enter the lists only by way of critique of current custom and usage? In either case, what is at issue is the very existence of such a thing as ‘practical reason’ (see Practical reason and ethics ). For law is about human practice, about societal order enforced and upheld. If there can be a law of reason, it must be that reason is a practical as well as a speculative faculty. The radically opposed alternative sets will above reason, will oriented to the ends human beings happen to have. Norms and normative order depend then on what is willed in the way of patterns for conduct; reason plays only an ancillary part in the adjustment of means to ends. A further fundamental set of questions concerns the linkage of the legal with the political. If law concerns good order, and if politics aims at good order in a polity, law must be a crucial part of politics; but in this case a subordinate part, for politics determines law, but not law politics. On the other hand, politics may be considered at least as much a matter of actual power-structures as a matter of speculation about their beneficial use for some postulated common good. In the latter case, we may see law as that which can in principle set limits on and control abuses of power. Politics is about power, law about the shaping and the limiting of power-structures. The issue then is how to make law a master of politics rather than its servant.

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80. FT April: Books In Review: Political Philosophy And The God Of Abraham According to Pangle, the encounter between political philosophy and the Bible But once this has been conceded, rationalism, with its insistence on the http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0404/reviews/hancock.html

Books in Review Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham . By Thomas L. Pangle. Johns Hopkins University Press. 304 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Ralph C. Hancock Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham Ralph C. Hancock is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. Print this article Subscribe to the magazine: FIRST THINGS

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