Rationalism
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
freedom of conscience · rationalism · rationalist ideas · religious liberty · sensationalism
in the texts
The Communist Manifesto
The Enlightenment rationalism that overcame Christian ideas in the 18th century, itself expressing the rise of free competition.
The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
The philosophical position privileging reason as source of knowledge; named alongside sensationalism as a fundamental worldview type.
It is not only optimism and pessimism, determinism and indeterminism, that have their ultimate roots in the affective side of our nature, but pantheism and individualism, also idealism and materialism, even rationalism and sensationalism.