Sentences with phrase «by irrationalism»

So in a world increasingly dominated by irrationalism, he is very much worth listening to.

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Bergson has often been dismissed by scientists11 and philosophers12 alike, possibly for different reasons; but in most instances he has been criticized for his irrationalism and his vitalism.

The scale of the killing — the sheer number of bodies piled up by it — was much larger in the twentieth century, but that probably has more to do with modern weaponry than with Nietzschean irrationalism.

No respecter of received opinion, liberalism refuses to submit to the authority of doctrines inaccessible to reason, properly perceiving that irrationalism underlies many slick «certainties» peddled by fat and thriving gurus.

... Today's culture is dominated by the philosophy of mysticism (irrationalism)-- altruism — collectivism, the base from which only statism can be derived; the statists (of any brand: communist, fascist or welfare) are merely cashing in on it — while the «conservatives» are scurrying to ride on the enemy's premises and, somehow, to achieve political freedom by stealth.

It requires also that one resign oneself to an ultimate irrationalism: For the one reality that naturalism can never logically encompass is the very existence of nature (nature being, by definition, that which already exists); it is a philosophy, therefore, surrounded, permeated, and exceeded by a truth that is always already super naturam, and yet a philosophy that one can not seriously entertain except by scrupulously refusing to recognize this.

By positing a profound tension between freedom and reason (or, in his construction, will and reason), Ockham created a situation in which there are only two options: determinisms of a biological, racial, or ideological sort, or the radical relativism that, married to irrationalism, eventually yields nihilism.

These four marks of the Fascist spirit» nationalism and racism, a love of violence and war, irrationalism, and revolutionary presumption» though not exhaustive, help us to understand its appeal during the first half of the twentieth century, particularly where democratic institutions were feckless and resentments bred by World War I festered.

Not only does this fail to inspire electorates, as this general election campaign has shown, it leaves Labour woefully unprepared to counter the irrationalism peddled by the Tories and UKIP.

His strong stand on freedom of speech and imagination is well presented and his comments on what he was battling, «popular irrationalism», succinct: «The unreasoning mind, driven by doubt - free absolutes, could not be convinced by reason.»

He acquired a 1969 acrylic on canvas entitled «Blue Rational Irrationalism» from New York's Garth Greenan Gallery by the late abstract artist Al Loving.

After serving in the Italian military, he co-founded the Scuola Metafisica, an informal school of painting that advanced a «metaphysical» agenda by subjecting Renaissance esthetic strategies to 20th - century irrationalism.

Another was a debate between Adrian Stott, a trustee of the Optimum Population Trust, a British group pushing for greatly expanded efforts to promote family planning worldwide, and Brendan O'Neill, an editor of Spiked, a British online publication devoted to «raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism.»