Sentence examples for of rational knowledge from inspiring English sources

Many philosophers Karl Marx included thought that historical forces and the steady accumulation of rational knowledge would someday yield an "end state" for history.

He also remained a model of the Russian nauchno-tekhnicheskaya intelligentsia, the term applied to scientists and engineers with broad interests and intellectual curiosity beyond their profession, deep trust in the power of rational knowledge, and a modest and unassuming lifestyle.

Such detached traits, however, do not necessarily indicate that a culture is shamanistic, as the central personalities in such systems—sorcerers, medicine men or healers, and the like may, unlike the shaman, have attained their position through deliberate study and the application of rational knowledge.

The truths that Descartes presents to Elisabeth supply a body of rational knowledge on the basis of which we are able to use our free will correctly, choosing good over evil.

Just as there is an order of rational knowledge, with its 'degrees,' there are degrees of suprarational knowledge — of a higher wisdom — that is beyond 'natural knowledge.' These are, on the one hand, 'the science of revealed mysteries' or 'theological wisdom' and, on the other, 'mystical theology.' Here, Maritain's debt to Augustine and John of the Cross is particularly evident.

While God is not the first but the last concept in the order of rational knowledge, after the knowledge of creatures, He is the first object of natural knowledge, which is had in the first intentions and in which our intellect always proceeds from what is most indeterminate.

You have to let go of all that rational knowledge to think the next card is going to put you in gravy.

Steno was raised a Lutheran in Denmark, but as an expatriate he struggled with the absolutes of faith and rational knowledge.

Maritain also acknowledges the possibility of a natural, pre-philosophical, but still rational knowledge of God (see Approches de Dieu, pp. 13-22).

These incorrect responses provided important information because they were a better test of the working hypothesis, since they were not based on a rational knowledge of mathematics.

According to Kant's argument, we can have rational knowledge only of the domain of possible experience, not of supersensible objects such as God and the soul.