The theory, developed as a result of Enlightenment rationalism, is based on the view that the only intrinsically good thing is a good will; an action can only be good if its maximthe principle behind itis duty to the moral law.
He added that "any opposition not based on rationalism, science, or experience will one day or another, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies".
In "The Birth of Tragedy," published in 1872, he questioned the foundations of Western rationalism as exemplified by Socrates and the plays of Euripides, espousing a new kind of morality, one based on the mastery of the passions, not their extirpation through religion.
It followed that this decision had been politically driven by aesthetic dislike of wind farms, rather than based on economic rationalism.
According to Mr. Nilekani, Indian politics continues to be mired in conflicts between feudalism and secularism, rationalism and traditionalism, and is based on caste, class, regional and religious interests.
"Broadly, the method places a lot of emphasis on reconciling empiricism and rationalism, and making logical deductions based on empirical data," Flat Earth Society vice president Michael Wilmore, an Irishman, told Life's Little Mysteries.
The aesthetics of creative genius Bodmer articulated in his defense of Milton was based on Wolff's rationalism yet found warm acceptance among leading Romantics of the following generation.
Empirical rationalism is the idea that ethics is based on, or is just a province of, practical reason.
His fundamental objection to current academic learning is that since it is based on a secular Aristotelian rationalism that derives knowledge from the senses, and hence by way of the senses from the unstable and deceptive world of matter, it can never lead to real truth, that is, to true magical power over the self and the world, or to knowledge of God.
In 1277 the bishop of Paris condemned 219 propositions based on the new trend toward rationalism and naturalism.
