Sentences with phrase «in irrationalism»

Brunner's stanch adherence to Personalism in spite of what he takes to be philosophical unanimity against it does not involve him in irrationalism.

Not exact matches

Their critique of reason opens the door also to forms of irrationalism and fideism that the deconstructive post-modernists do not, in fact, want.

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.

It was their inability to attain it in the twentieth century that drove them to the kind of irrationalism that now characterizes much of science.

I shall not delay the discussion here to defend Bergson against his critics, except to point out that what is frequently termed «irrationalism» in Bergson is precisely what he has in common with all modern disciplines that take the dimension of depth seriously.

’27 Popper himself says: «The Myth of the Framework is, in our time, the central bulwark of irrationalism....

I share his view that the materialism and irrationalism in nineteenth - century Europe did much to corrupt Western culture.

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.

It opens the door to irrationalism and nihilism in all dimensions of our thought.

... 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.

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

It is significant that writers as divergent in philosophical perspectives as Croce and Russell seem to agree that Bergson's intuitions prompt the charge of irrationalism.

Gunter's discussion of the interdependence of the poles in the apparent conflicts in Bergson's thought serves two purposes: as indicated above, he tries to show that the charge of irrationalism is improperly made against Bergson, and he argues that there is a fundamental unity in Bergson's philosophy.

Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

At a deeper level the lack of interest in critical reflective reason may be a form of anti-intellectualism but the conscious irrationalism of groups such as the «romantic German youth movement is quite missing.

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.

In this sense Ur - Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.

Hitler — the «bitter flower of German irrationalism,» as Hans - Jürgen Syberberg once put it — may still lurk beyond the horizon, but the seeds of fascism have already been sown in society's unquestioning adherence to power strictures.

Some of the juxtapositions of works seem arbitrary, and many of the pieces are organized in thematic sub divisions or «chapters,» as the curators call them, with wall labels reading «Rational Irrationalism,» «Racing Thoughts,» «Love Letter from the War Front,» «Free Radicals,» and «Get Rid of Yourself,» that at times seem sophomoric and forced, as if aimed merely to prompt cheeky sound bites.

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.

In this sense Ur - Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.