Sentences with phrase «rational certitude»

Here is an excerpt from an article on Chantal Delsol I have forthcoming in Perspectives on Political Science: In the place of «true judgment» or prudence, the defenders of international justice satisfy their hunger for rational certitude and analytical specificity with mere....

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Descartes, for instance, explicitly forbade himself any recourse to the world's testimony of itself; in his third Meditation, he seals all his senses against nature, so that he can undertake his rational reconstruction of reality from a position pure of any certitude save that of the ego's own existence.

It is the adherence to affirmations which are irreducible to rational necessity and which derive their certitude from the authority of the revealed word.