Sentence examples for rational philosophy from inspiring English sources

A plea for what he called a more rational philosophy of Judaism, it constituted a major contribution to the accommodation between science, philosophy, and religion.

One of them considers America the culmination of the Enlightenment, cleaving to a rational philosophy that would indeed exclude religion and its icons from the public square.

And there was a great deal to laugh about: besides the rational philosophy of De Stijl, Van Doesburg was actively involved in a movement that seems to embody the exact opposite: Dada.

A key pillar of our western rational philosophy is that the longer we spend or the more effort we put into making a decision, the better it will turn out to be.

The scandal sparked a quick response: the Encyclopédie was forced to interrupt publication, and Rousseau attacked the rational philosophy of the Philosophes in general in a polemical treatise on the question of the morality of theatrical performances, Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles (1758).

And his apparent credulity, appears inconsistent with his otherwise rational philosophy, though it must be said that belief in witchcraft was (a) not unusual in his time, and (b) was entirely consistent with the theory of spirit according to which to deny the existence of spirits good or evil, leads, logically to the denial of the existence of God.

His real achievement apart from his doctrinal propositions was to effect a culmination of a tendency within the philosophical schools of the post-Avicennan period, namely to synthesize and reconcile reason and intuition, faith and rational inquiry, philosophy and mysticism within a largely late Neoplatonic paradigm of doing philosophy.

"The Street was being irrational and now it's adopting more of a rational investment philosophy instead of one based on hype," he said.

Both Maimonides and Ibn Rushd, when faced with cases in which there was a clash between the claims of the rational Aristotelian philosophy or science and the accepted beliefs of their traditional religions, had open to them a method by means of which they could find for themselves a fairly easy solution.

But he also added a third motivation, what he called 'the drive of conscience' which is 'the natural drive to recognize a divine moral law' ("A Guide to Rational Living," Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, §132, 574).

Certainly, the key to their thinking lies in the soul and its destiny; and to the rational arguments of philosophy they join certain religious axioms that the soul is immortal and that after death it will receive reward for virtues and punishment for sins (CU: 161).