81. Philosophy In Ukraine For Chyzhevs kyi the concept of rationalism is, as it was for Wordsworth, to rationalism is that his history of philosophy in Ukraine suffers a gross http://www.ditext.com/chrucky/ukraine.html

Comments on Chyzhevs'kyi's Historiography of Philosophy in Ukraine Andrew Chrucky This paper was originally presented as part of a session organized by Prof. Vitalij Keis at a conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Chicago (1982); and subsequently published in the Ukrainian literary journal Suchasnist' (1988 (No. 5)) in a Ukrainian translation done by Prof. Keis. Chyzhevs'kyi's most comprehensive work on philosophy in Ukraine is his Outlines of the History of Philosophy in Ukraine , published in 1931. When I first read it, I became rather bewildered. There is a chapter devoted to Mykola Hohol' (Gogol) and another to the trio of Pantelejmon Kulish, Mykola Kostomarov and Taras Shevchenko. Now, I asked myself, why is it that such seemingly unphilosophical writers are given extensive treatment, while other writers and philosophers are barely mentioned? What do Hohol', Kulish, Kostomarov and Shevchenko have in common to warrant their inclusion in a history of philosophy? The only thing they appear to share approximating what I consider to be philosophy is a world-view, an ideology, a Weltanschauung I use these words synonymously. Their

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83. Summer School - Knowledge In A Commercial Society philosophy and the Social Sciences, Workshop It draws on Karl Popper’s ‘critical rationalism’, placing particular emphasis on pluralism and fallibilism, http://www.icomm.lu.se/summerschool/course3.html

The Public Intellectual: Who, Why and How The Makers of 20:th Century Psychology Philosophy and the Social Sciences Workshop Philosophy and the Social Sciences: Hermeneutics, Structure and Rational Choice Monday-Friday, June 6-17, 11.10-12.00. Course Director: Prof. Jeremy Shearmur, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Background reading: Alan Chalmers, What is this thing called science? 2.Rational Choice Theory Background reading: Background reading: 4.Rational Choice and Institutional Design Background reading: 5.Hermeneutics Background reading: 6.Hermeneutics and Participant Observation Background reading: 7.Ethics, Participant Observation and Ethics Committees Background reading: Roger Homan, Ethics of Social Research; especially chapters 3 and 5. 8.Structure Background reading: A readable introductory survey of structuralism and subsequent developments (to about 1978!) is given in John Sturrock (ed.) Structuralism and Since. 9. Power and Structure

84. Science Philosophy Definition / Christian Science Definition / Christian Science is scientific / rationalism dominates science / what is science philosophy rationalism / rationalism nietzsche / kuhn and his philosophy of science http://huizen.daxis.nl/~henkt/wetenschapsfilosofie-engl.html

End of Science Relativism Explained TRUE or FALSE is different inside and outside a logic State=Church Church=Science ... Sub choice 1 End of Religion ' christian science ' / 'Science' Paradigm The mind-strangling by Roman Christian culture is over.... critical common sense returns Quote John Ziman: A scientist is a person who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing Western abstract scientists math, economics, management,sociology,philosophy etc. ) since Immanuel Kant got instruments of the 'rational phantom', in beehive-like institutions as ' mind-priests rationally ' mystifying the mind-body split . Laws of Nature were awaiting Divine Analysis. Ridiculing creativity and ' intelligence ' they began a religion computism around God IBM Vico died fighting it. Since Enlightenment introduced abstract thought skill grew to Extreme Science. Ethics remained at standstill as already ridiculed by Nietzsche . Perfectly shown in the parallel 'debate' between Popper and Kuhn . In The Logic of Scientific Discovery Popper stressed skill and the continuity of science (steadily growing), and in

85. Www.vuletic.com/hume interested readers learn about the fundamentals of science and philosophy, Atheology. Atheism; Humanism; Materialism; rationalism. philosophy http://www.vuletic.com/hume/

navigation Atheology Atheism Humanism Materialism Rationalism Philosophy Epistemology Ethics History of Philosophy Logic Metaphysics Science Cosmology Evolution Quantum Mechanics www.vuletic.com/hume is committed to helping interested readers learn about the fundamentals of science and philosophy, especially as these bear upon a materialistic and humanistic atheology. Mark I. Vuletic , editor of this site, is a doctoral candidate in philosophy and a Lance Corporal in the United States Marine Corps. news 11 Sep 2005 Dear friends, You will be glad to know that I touched back down in the United States this morning after completing my second successful tour in Al Anbar province, Iraq. I am grateful to everyone who wrote to offer support and encouragement while I was away. As the Iraqis say, "shukran!" [Photo: I stand at a traffic circle in the city of Hit during an operation in support of local Marine infantry. The Iraqis I talked to in the city were overwhelmingly supportive of our presence, and no longer appear to be afraid to go to the polls. The writing in the background is a sura from the Qur'an.] review

86. Overview Of Russian Philosophy Russian philosophy laid a foundation for the criticism of rationalism, objectification, and essentialism the metaphysics of general laws which was http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/rus_thought_overview.html

Mikhail Epstein. AN OVERVIEW OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY "The Karamazovs are not scoundrels but philosophers, because all real Russian people are philosophers..." Dmitry Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov It is a property of the Russian people to indulge in philosophy. ...The fate of the philosopher in Russia is painful and tragic. Nikolai Berdyaev. The Russian Idea Introduction What is philosophy? There is no simple and universal definition and many thinkers consider the task of such a definition to be impossible. The most credible attempt is a nominalistic reference: philosophy is what Plato and Aristotle, Kant and Hegel were occupied with. Perhaps, the single most famous and broadly citedif slightly eccentricdefinition belongs to A. N. Whitehead: philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato. If this is true, then Russian philosophy must be viewed as an indispensable part of the Western intellectual tradition since it provides perhaps the most elaborated footnotes to the most mature and comprehensive dialogues of Plato: The Republic and The Laws . Questions of social ethics and political philosophy, of an individual's relationship to a State, of adequate knowledge and virtuous behavior, of wisdom and power, of religious and aesthetic values, of ideas and ideals as guidelines for human life all of these are central to Russian philosophy and exemplify its continuing relevance vis-a-vis Plato's legacy and the Western tradition in its broadest sense. Moreover, the very status of ideas in Russian philosophy mirrors Plato's vision of them as ontological entities, "laws", or ideal principlesas opposed to mere epistemological units. In discussing Russian philosophy, especially that of its Soviet period, we are bound to consider the practical fate of such Platonic conceptions as we explore the final outcome of an ideocratic utopia, wherein philosophy was designated to rule the republic.

87. British Academy - Rationalism, Platonism And God: A Symposium On Early Modern Ph rationalism, Platonism and God A Symposium on early modern philosophy. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2004/040526dhs.html

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88. British Academy - Rationalism, Platonism And God: A Symposium On Early Modern Ph rationalism, Platonism and God A Symposium on early modern philosophy. The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. Wednesday 26 May 2004 http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2004/040526prog.html

home contact fellowship funding ... search Related pages: About the symposium Programme Booking form How to find the Academy ... Information about other British Academy events DAWES HICKS SYMPOSIUM Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on early modern philosophy The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 Wednesday 26 May 2004 PROGRAMME Coffee and Registration Session 1 Welcome and Introduction Plato's sun and Descartes' stove: contemplation and control in Cartesian philosophy [ABSTRACT] Professor John Cottingham, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading Discussant : Dr Douglas Hedley, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Lunch Session 2 Spinoza and Platonism Professor Michael Ayers, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Wadham College, Oxford Discussant : Dr Sarah Hutton, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University

89. Untitled Empiricism and rationalism Letters on the English 1733; Lettres Philosophiques 1734; Elements of the philosophy of Newton 1738; Candide 1759 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/EMP_RAT.html

[Back to Modern History Sourcebook MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK CRIB SHEET Empiricism and Rationalism [Note: Crib Sheets are meant as review aids for a particular period/theme. They are not complete overviews!] The Rationalist Tradition Rene Descartes 1591-1650 Discourse on Method Meditationes de Prima Philosophia 1641 (Meditations) Principia Philosophiae 1644 (Principles) Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am sum res cogitans - I am a being that thinks Baruch(Benedictus) Spinoza 1632-77 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Ethics Pantheism/Panentheism Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) The Empiricist Tradition Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Novum Organum Theory of Induction Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679 Leviathan John Locke 1632-1704 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Two Treatises of Civil Government A Letter Concerning Toleration innate ideas tabula rasa Bishop George Berkley 1685-1753 David Hume 1711-1761 Treatise on Human Nature An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Opposes logic of induction Immanual Kant 1724-1804 Critique of Pure Reason Critique of Practical Reason Categorical imperative "

90. The Claremont Institute: Leo Strauss, The Bible, And Political Philosophy The transformation of modern philosophy — modern rationalism — into nihilism, the rejection of all rational standards for human thought or human action, http://www.claremont.org/writings/980213jaffa.html

Scholarly Writings is the repository of papers by the Claremont Institute's scholars. Included here are essays and reviews published in academic journals, as well as papers delivered at Institute-sponsored panels at the annual convention of the American Political Science Association. Harry V. Jaffa is a distinguished fellow at the Claremont Institute. He is Professor Emeritus of Government at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School. He received his B.A. from Yale, where he majored in English, in 1939, and holds the Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Also by Harry V. Jaffa The Logic of the Colorblind Constitution Posted on December 6, 2004 Wages of Sin Posted on October 11, 2004 Ignoble Liars and Noble Truth-Tellers Posted on August 17, 2004 Looking for something? Enter any text below to search our content. Or, find an article by author topic or date directly. Enter your email address below to join Precepts, our free weekly policy watch newsletter. Leo Strauss, the Bible, and Political Philosophy

91. Christian Scholar's Review Abstract Larry D. Harwood argues that rationalism, though often embraced Greek mythical tradition for the rationalism and rational god of philosophy. http://www.hope.edu/resources/csr/XXVII1/harwood/

Was Rationalism Christian or Modern? Larry D. Harwood Abstract : Larry D. Harwood argues that rationalism, though often embraced by Christian thinkers, is more a product of modernity than of the classical Christian heritage. He points toward postmodernity as providing a means of escape from rationalism. Mr. Harwood is instructor of philosophy at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was of course Kierkegaard who captures in his analysis of the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac some implications of the freedom of God that largely failed to provide check upon the modern effort to define the identity of God in modern categories. The reticence of many modern Christians toward Kierkegaard is instructive in that the general reticence toward him is not because in his conception God is not personal or free-that He most certainly is-but because God does not seem rational enough or even rational at all. The rationalism that Kierkegaard opposed in his day has been pummeled by Kuhn, Feyerband, and others to the point that we begin to see an historical reversal in the now wounded "sovereign reason" of modernity. Postmodernism now performs something of the same emaciation upon reason and science that reason and science had performed upon religious faith three centuries earlier. Science is now climbing down-or being pulled-from the herculean statement of Galileo that "the conclusions of natural science are true and necessary, and the judgment of man has nothing to do with them." The positivists in this century set out to prove Galileo's statement right, but had to progressively retreat from an apriorism that could not carry all the particulars of the empirical world in one concept.

92. Rationalism Vs. Empiricism A good deal of philosophical work has been invested in trying to Most forms of rationalism involve notable commitments to other philosophical positions. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

version history HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A ... Z This document uses XHTML/Unicode to format the display. If you think special symbols are not displaying correctly, see our guide Displaying Special Characters last substantive content change AUG The Encyclopedia Now Needs Your Support Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Rationalism vs. Empiricism The dispute between rationalism and empiricism concerns the extent to which we are dependent upon sense experience in our effort to gain knowledge. Rationalists claim that there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience. Empiricists claim that sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and knowledge. Rationalists generally develop their view in two ways. First, they argue that there are cases where the content of our concepts or knowledge outstrips the information that sense experience can provide. Second, they constuct accounts of how reason in some form or other provides that additional information about the world. Empiricists present complementary lines of thought. First, they develop accounts of how experience provides the information that rationalists cite, insofar as we have it in the first place. (Empiricists will at times opt for skepticism as an alternative to rationalism: if experience cannot provide the concepts or knowledge the rationalists cite, then we don't have them.) Second, empiricists attack the rationalists' accounts of how reason is a source of concepts or knowledge.

93. Empiricism, Rationalism And Atheism rationalism and Empiricism are philosophical attitudes taken by many atheists when examining the world. Included are many links to and about texts by Kant, http://atheism.about.com/cs/empiricismration/

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94. Glossary Of Terms: Em This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer the critique of rationalism and fell into scepticism. Experience does not by itself give necessary http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/m.htm

MIA Encyclopedia of Marxism : Glossary of Terms Em Empiricism Doctrine that sense experience is the sole source of knowledge. Empiricism originated in England in the seventeenth century with Bacon Hobbes and Locke , when it was a materialist Rationalist critique of Empiricism, and particularly the idealist critique of Berkeley forced empiricism to the scepticism of Hume : experience was the only source of knowledge, but could not give us "certain knowledge". For example, we may know that the Sun has always risen in the East, and this may be good enough for practical purposes, but Hume explained that we cannot know for certain that the Sun will rise in the East tommorow. Empiricism is characterised, on the one hand, by an uncritical attitude towards the categories through which Experience is grasped, and on the other by rejection of the significance of Reason in acquiring knowledge. This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer the critique of Rationalism and fell into scepticism . Experience does not by itself give necessary and universal knowledge. Experience must be supplemented by the activity of Reason. The chief defect of Empiricism is that it views experience passively , whereas in order to retain a consistent materialist understanding of experience it is necessary to recognise that it is the practical activity of people changing the world which is the condition and source of knowledge. Further, knowledge only arises in and through definite social relations, through which people produce the forms of activity under which experience can be grasped; but for Empricism, experience is not a social activity, but simply a passive, sensual process.

95. Immanuel Kant -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] All discursive, rational beings must conceive of the physical world as Kant believes that all the threads of his transcendental philosophy come together http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantmeta.htm

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Metaphysics Immanuel Kant is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him. This portion of the Encyclopedia entry will focus on his metaphysics and epistemology in one of his most important works, The Critique of Pure Reason . (All references will be to the A (1781) and B(1787) edition pages in Werner Pluhar's translation. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1996.) A large part of Kant's work addresses the question "What can we know?" The answer, if it can be stated simply, is that our knowledge is constrained to mathematics and the science of the natural, empirical world. It is impossible, Kant argues, to extend knowledge to the supersensible realm of speculative metaphysics. The reason that knowledge has these constraints, Kant argues, is that the mind plays an active role in constituting the features of experience and limiting the mind's access to the empirical realm of space and time. Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to those parts of this article) 1. Historical Background to Kant

96. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy Of Immanuel Kant Kant s philosophy is generally designated as a system of transcendental criticism The old rational dogmatism had, he now considered, laid too much http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08603a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... K > Philosophy of Immanuel Kant A B C D ... CICDC - Home of the Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan Philosophy of Immanuel Kant Kant's philosophy is generally designated as a system of transcendental criticism tending towards Agnosticism in theology, and favouring the view that Christianity is a non-dogmatic religion. Privatdozent It is usual to distinguish two periods of Kant's literary activity. The first, the pre-critical period, extends from 1747 to 1781, the date of the epoch-making "Kritik der reinen Vernunft"; the second, the critical period, extends from 1781 to 1794. THE PRE-CRITICAL PERIOD Privatdozent . Besides these, in which he expounded and defended the current philosophy of Wolff, he published other treatises in which he applied that philosophy to problems of mathematics and physics. In 1770 appeared the work "De Mundi Sensibilis atque Intelligibilis Formis et Principiis" (On the Forms and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World), in which he shows for the first time a tendency to adopt an independent system of philosophy. The years from 1770 to 1780 were spent, as Kant himself tells us, in the preparation of the "Critique of Pure Reason". THE CRITICAL PERIOD It will be found most convenient to divide the study of Kant's critical philosophy into three portions, corresponding to the doctrines contained in his three "Critiques". We shall, therefore, take up successively (1) the doctrines of the "Critique of Pure Reason"; (2) the doctrines of the "Critique of Practical Reason"; (3) the doctrines of the "Critique of the Faculty of Judgment".

97. Introduction To Philosophy:Rationalism - Wikibooks rationalism is a philosophical movement declaring that the most certain form of knowledge is derived from reason and that our senses are not reliable http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Philosophy:Rationalism

Introduction to Philosophy:Rationalism From Wikibooks Rationalism is a philosophical movement declaring that the most certain form of knowledge is derived from reason and that our senses are not reliable submitters of information about the outer world. The most famous rationalists were Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, creating theories of knowledge totally independent from any experience. The senses, according to the rationalists, can not tell us real truth, for example: we could dream that we are the king of the world and not truly be, but the angles of a triangle still sum up to 180 degrees. Knowledge from reason alone and not experience is known as a priori Retrieved from " http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Philosophy:Rationalism Views Module Discussion Edit this page History Personal tools Create an account or log in Navigation Main Page Community Portal Recent changes Random module ... Donations Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Permanent link This page was last modified 18:34, 13 April 2005. Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License About Wikibooks

98. Philosophy Journals Index: Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Sociology Of Knowledg Journals in philosophy and related fields. This annotated index includes over 600 descriptions. http://www.erraticimpact.com/philosophy/books/journals/journal_index_topics.cfm?

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100. Makoto Kogawara Popper does not use rationalism as a philosophical term that means intellectualism in opposition to empiricism. It rather includes both empiricism and http://www.law.keio.ac.jp/~popper/kogawara3.html

A Fundamental Problem of Rationalism Makoto KOGAWARA 1. A collapse of the comprehensive rationalism Popper understands the rationality in terms of our intellectual attitude. Our rationality (or reasonableness) is neither a faculty nor an intellectual gift. It is not something given to an individual, according to him. It is an attitude that we have acquired from our intellectual intercourse with others. A rationalist tries to solve as many problems as possible not by an appeal to emotions or passions or violence, but by an appeal to argument and experience. Popper does not use "rationalism" as a philosophical term that means intellectualism in opposition to empiricism. It rather includes both empiricism and intellectualism, because in Popper's sense, it makes use of both experience and intellect. Popper explains his rationalism in the following way. We could then say that rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to critical arguments and to learn from experience. It is fundamentally an attitude of admitting that 'I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth.' He continues to say: What I shall call the 'true rationalism' is the rationalism of Socrates. It is the awareness of one's limitations, the intellectual modesty of those who know how often they err, and how much they depend on others even for this knowledge. It is the realization that we must not expect too much from reason; that argument rarely settles a question, although it is the only means for learning - not to see clearly, but to see more clearly than before.

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