Sentences with phrase «of irrationalism»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Theodor Adorno's 1947 «Theses Against Occultism» showed Adorno's knowledge of actual occultism to be limited, and he tended to lump both ancient and modern occult movements together and link them to German National Socialism and «irrationalism.»

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.»

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.