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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism
How To Use rationalistic In A Sentence
- Marx exceeds rationalistic metaphysics and Political Economy and realizes the ontological transform of production.
- It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)
- Baldwin argues that Nordau never fit together the pieces of his thinking—his rationalistic liberalism and his Volkish Zionism. Bloodlust
- These are contrasted with ideas that are merely ‘arbitrary, rationalistic, or willed’, based on extemporary polemics.
- It became the basis for political and social doctrine and could be called rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the pro-claimed and practiced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
- Kant demolished the rationalistic arguments of Anselm, Descartes, and others, for the existence of God.
- Yet it did not enter into the composition of his religious faith, and this shows that his religious faith, though entirely free from suspicion of insincerity or ostentatious assumption, was like deism in so many cases, whether rationalistic or emotional, a kind of gratuitously adopted superfluity, not the satisfaction of a profound inner craving and resistless spiritual necessity. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
- It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of the individual from any higher force above him. Archive 2008-08-01
- Men living estranged from God easily cast aside God's morals and principles, exchanging them for a blind belief in rationalistic expediency. The Spirit of '67
- Christianity is now mild and rationalistic, ignoring the fact that all its so-called mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. The Necessity of Atheism