Sentences with word «irrationalism»

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.

The Whitney exhibition led to the museum purchase of the painting Rational Irrationalism, private sales of the other works and his signing with William Zierler gallery.

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

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

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

So although it claims to challenge irrationalism and anti-scientific prejudice, it tends to confine its anger to the dogma of the three Abrahamic religions.

More often than not the philosopher is maligned as the progenitor of European irrationalism and fideism (la Isaiah Berlin).

For many of our day, of course, this phrase has only the connotation of a mystifying irrationalism.

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.

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.

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.

Yet it would be a mistake to interpret this tendency as rampant irrationalism.

Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism.

Where Mosse is most interesting is on Fascist irrationalism and on fascism and revolution.

For all the unprecedented freedoms and decencies of liberal democratic regimes, certain tendencies within those regimes» aborting unwanted children, euthanizing the old and burdensome, a rising irrationalism» are eerily reminiscent of the mental universe of fascism in their elevation of the untrammeled human will above any constraints of nature, grace, or even reason.

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.

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.

He fought against the social irrationalism of CTBS for years.

The history of scientific thought through the blood - bath of the 20C, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the age of western barbarism against the third world, is a sad story of a slide into irrationalism.

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

Despite all the irrationalism of the modern world there remains the fact that consistency and coherence where they are possible, are to be preferred over inconsistency and incoherence.

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.

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

This structure keeps the balance between a rationalism that would submit God to human categories and an irrationalism that would eviscerate all finite intelligibility, even God's word.

... 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.

Often savage and always tinged with a sense of the tragic, it was an art deeply influenced by the existentialism and irrationalism of Friedrich Nietzsche.

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.

The Republic, and the freedoms it embodies, are in grave peril from a new form of irrationalism and nihilism that expresses itself through a perverse and distorted form of monotheistic religion.

After deploring the fact that many rationalists took to irrationalism — with disastrous ethical implications, according to Popper — he concludes that» [t] his is what happened to Whitehead if I am not quite mistaken» (OSE 231).

But the Nazis weren't alone in their irrationalism; Mussolini, too, drank from its well, in his case from the thought of Nietzsche and the theorist of violence George Sorel, though Mosse unfortunately neglects to discuss these intellectual sources of Italian fascism.

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.

Just as she reaches the apex of irrationalism, Cretton pulls the scene back at the right moment.

Under the rubric of «Rational Irrationalism» (the section titles seem a bit trite) a corner devoted to Eva Hesse complements the energetic geometries of Richard Serra and a beautifully sited smoked glass box by Larry Bell, over by the window facing east.

Highlights on the sixth floor section titled «Rational Irrationalism» include Michelle Stuart, «28 Moray Hill,» 1974; Rafael Ferrer, «Neon Corner,» 1970; and Richard Serra, «Prop,» 1978.