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	Continental Rationalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The expression “continental rationalism” refers to a set of views more or less shared by a number of philosophers active on the European continent during the latter two thirds of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth.
		While all of the continental rationalists meet one or more of these criteria, this is arguably the consequence of a deeper tie that binds them together — that is, a metaphysical commitment to the reality of substance, and, in particular, to substance as an underlying principle of unity.
		The early modern period of philosophy, including continental rationalism, is generally, and correctly, supposed to have been driven by the new science to a radical departure from the Aristotelianism of the late medieval or renaissance period immediately preceding it.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/continental-rationalism (8661 words)

	Rationalism
		Rationalism, in the broad sense, is the philosophical outlook that stresses the power of a priori reasoning to grasp substantial truths about the world.
		All the Continental Rationalists are rationalists in the broad sense; i.e., all share the basic rationalist viewpoint with Plato.
		Rationalism in the philosophical sense is NOT the optimistic view of the power of scientific inquiry and education associated with 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers (such as Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson).
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/rationalism.html (520 words)

	Rationalism (disambiguation) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rationalism, a movement which asserts that reason and evidence should be held superior to religious teachings.
		Continental rationalism, a belief that reason is the source of all knowledge in contrast to the experience of the senses.
		In colloquial English the term rationalism usually refers to the first definition, whereas continental rationalism is relatively unknown by non-philosophers.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rationalism_%28disambiguation%29 (142 words)

	Continental Rationalism: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Continental Rationalism is a philosophical creed that human reason is the source of knowledge.
		It originated with Rene Descartes and spread during the 17th and 18th centuries, primarily in continental Europe.
		On the heels of his work came continental philosophers such as Spinoza and Leibniz who sought to enlarge and refine the fundamental theory of rationalism.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ra/Rationalism.html (336 words)

	Continental rationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Continental Rationalism is a school of philosophy based on the thesis that human reason is the source of knowledge.
		It originated with René Descartes and spread during the 17th and 18th centuries, primarily in continental Europe.
		On the heels of his work came continental philosophers such as Spinoza and Leibniz whose attempts to grapple with the epistemological and metaphysical problems raised by Descartes led to a development of the fundamental approach of Rationalism.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Continental_rationalism (443 words)

	Rationalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rationalism, also known as the rationalist movement, is a philosophical doctrine thatasserts that the truth should be determined by reason and factual analysis, rather than faith, dogma or religious teaching.
		Rationalism has some similarities inideology and intent to secular humanism and atheism, in that it aims to provide a framework for social and philosophical discourse outside of religiousor supernatural beliefs.
		Although there is a strong atheistic influence in modern rationalism, with prominent rationalscientists such as Richard Dawkins holding atheistic beliefs, not allrationalists are atheists, and there is a greater compatibility with agnosticism (which asserts that the existence of god is irrelevant or indeterminable) than strong atheism.
	www.therfcc.org /rationalism-2176.html (311 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Continental rationalism
		Continental Rationalism is a school of philosophy based on the thesis that human reason is the source of knowledge.
		It originated with René Descartes and spread during the 17th and 18th centuries, primarily in continental Europe.
		On the heels of his work came continental philosophers such as Spinoza and Leibniz whose attempts to grapple with the epistemological and metaphysical problems raised by Descartes led to a development of the fundamental approach of Rationalism.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Continental_rationalism (543 words)

	continental rationalism links and more information on continental rationalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Continental Rationalism 'Continental Rationalism'\ is a philosophical creed that human reason is the source of knowledge.
		It is this form of continental rationalism that is the chief concern of this...
		The tradition of Continental rationalism was carried on by two philosophers of genius: the Dutch Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza (1632?77) and his younger contemporary Gottfried Wilhelm...
	www.tocuracao.com /continental+rationalism.html (239 words)

	Rationalism vs. Empiricism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		They are part of our rational nature in such a way that, while sense experiences may trigger a process by which they are brought to consciousness, experience does not provide the concepts or determine the information they contain.
		Rationalism in the form of the Intuition/Deduction thesis is also committed to epistemic foundationalism, the view that we know some truths without basing our belief in them on any others and that we then use this foundational knowledge to know more truths.
		Thus, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are the Continental Rationalists in opposition to Locke, Berkeley and Hume, the British Empiricists.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/rationalism-empiricism (8930 words)

	Continental Rationalism Briefly Characterized
		According to the Continental Rationalists, the appropriate methodology for building upon the self-evident truths is the deductive axiomatic method of mathematics (as especially exemplified in geometry) wherein theorems are derived from axioms and postulates.
		In saying that the Continental Rationalists' conception of reason is that knowledge (or truth) is a arranged in a deductive system, we speak about both their epistemology and their metaphysics.
		A major problem for the Continental Rationalists is directly evident when we note the diversity of basic postulates which the different rationalists advance, and the radically different conclusions which they draw from shared principles, postulates, or ideas.
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/ContinentalRationalismBrieflyCharacterized.html (1106 words)

	Continental Philosophy » Baudrillard
		This autodestruction is said to occur for several reasons, eg: 1) The first principles of any rational system or theory, or the first rules of any language game, cannot prove themselves without logical circularity, or else falling into an infinite regress of first principles.
		If the modern rationalist uses reason to provide rational arguments for being rational then he or she is simply begging the question.
		For he or she is assuming the validity of reason to argue toward the validity of reason.
	www.continental-philosophy.org /category/baudrillard (1440 words)

	rationalism
		The term "Continental Rationalism" traditionally refers to a 17th century philosophical movement begun by Descartes.
		Continental Rationalism is usually understood in relation to its rival 17th century movement, British Empiricism, founded by John Locke.
		In spite of Loeb's suggestions, the traditional division between rationalism and empiricism offered by Reid has at least some foundation, and is convenient for understanding the evolution of philosophical theories during the modern period of philosophy.
	www.london-oratory.org /philosophy/philosophies/epistemology/rationalism/body_rationalism.html (387 words)

	This article is not about continental rationalism continental rationalism ...
		"Rationalism", also known as the "rationalist movement", is a philosophical doctrine that asserts that the truth should be determined by reason and factual analysis, rather than faith faith, dogma dogma or religious teaching.
		Rationalism has some similarities in ideology and intent to secular humanism secular humanism and atheism atheism, in that it aims to provide a framework for social and philosophical discourse outside of religious or supernatural beliefs.
		Although there is a strong atheistic influence in modern rationalism, with prominent rational scientists such as Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins holding atheistic beliefs, not all rationalists are atheists, and there is a greater compatibility with agnosticism agnosticism (which asserts that the existence of god is irrelevant or indeterminable) than strong atheism.
	www.biodatabase.de /rationalist (379 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rationalism
		Within the Western philosophical tradition, "rationalism begins with the Eleatics, Pythagoreans, and Plato, whose theory of the self-sufficiency of reason became the leitmotif of Neoplatonism and idealism" (Runes, 263).
		Since the Enlightenment, rationalism is usually associated with the introduction of mathematical methods into philosophy, as in Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza (Bourke, 263).
		Proponents of some varieties of rationalism argue that, starting with foundational basic principles, like the axioms of geometry, one could deductively derive the rest of all possible knowledge.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Continental_rationalism (1624 words)

	Rationalism - Everything on Rationalism (information, latest news, articles,...)
		Rationalism, also known as the rationalist movement, is a philosophical doctrine that asserts that the truth can best be discovered by reason and factual analysis, rather than faith, dogma or religious teaching.
		Rationalism makes no claims that humans are more important than animals or any other part of nature.
		Although there is a strong atheistic influence in modern rationalism, with all prominent rationalists, including scientists such as Richard Dawkins and activists such as Sanal Edamaruku holding atheistic views, not all historical rationalists were atheists.
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /rationalism (408 words)

	Rationalism - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Rationalism, also known as the rationalist movement, is a philosophical doctrine that asserts that the truth should be determined by reason and factual analysis, rather than faith, dogma or religious teaching.
		Rationalism has some similarities in ideology and intent to secular humanism and atheism, in that it aims to provide a framework for social and philosophical discourse outside of religious or supernatural beliefs; however, rationalism differs from both of these, in that:
		Although there is a strong atheistic influence in modern rationalism, with prominent rational scientists such as Richard Dawkins holding atheistic views, not all rationalists are atheists, and there is a greater compatibility with agnosticism (which asserts that the existence of deities is irrelevant or indeterminable) than strong atheism.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Rationalist (353 words)

	SparkNotes: René Descartes: Discourse on the Method
		He takes this difference to be evidence of humankind’s “rational soul.” He considers the mysterious connection of the soul to the body and concludes that the soul must have a life outside the body.
		Descartes’ imposition of this method on scientific inquiry signals the break between Aristotelian thought and continental rationalism, a philosophical movement that spread across parts of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of which Descartes is the first exemplar.
		Continental rationalism held that human reason was the basis of all knowledge.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/descartes/section1.html (1277 words)

	Kant, Immanuel
		Kant has been justly recognized for creating a revolutionary synthesis between the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism of his time (represented by Leibniz) and the practical approach of British empiricism (culminating with Hume) that ended up in universal skepticism.
		The two interconnected foundations of what Kant called his "critical philosophy," of the "Copernican revolution" he claimed to have wrought in philosophy, were his epistemology (or theory of knowledge) of transcendental idealism and his moral philosophy of the autonomy of reason.
		Kant saw the first critique as an attempt to bridge the gap between rationalism and empiricism and, in particular, to counter the radical empiricism of David Hume.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Kant (6285 words)

	Empiricism
		Empiricism is distinguished from the philosophical tradition of rationalism, which holds that human reason apart from experience is a basis for some kinds of knowledge.
		Empiricism is characterised, on the one hand, by an uncritical attitude towards the categories through which Experience is grasped, and on the other by rejection of the significance of Reason in acquiring knowledge.
		This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer the critique of Rationalism and fell into scepticism.
	www.lycos.com /info/empiricism--continental-rationalism.html (440 words)

	Empiricism
		Empiricism is usually opposed to rationalism — the view that reason rather than sensation or observation is the source of knowledge.
		The major figures of Continental Rationalism are Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.
		All the Continental Rationalists are rationalists in the broad sense.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/empiricism.html (441 words)

	RATIONALISM Articles In epistemology and in its broadest
		Within the Western philosophical tradition, "rationalism begins with the Eleatics, Pythagoreans, and Plato, whose theory of the self-sufficiency of reason became the leitmotif of Neoplatonism and idealism" (Runes, 263).
		Since the Enlightenment, rationalism is usually associated with the introduction of mathematical methods into philosophy, as in Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza (Bourke, 263).
		This is commonly called continental rationalism, because it was predominant in the continental schools of Europe, whereas in Britain empiricism dominated.
	www.amazines.com /Rationalism_related.html (560 words)

	Empiricism - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a historical matter, philosophical empiricism is commonly contrasted with the philosophical school of thought known as "rationalism" which, in very broad terms, asserts that much knowledge is attributable to reason independently of the senses.
		However, this contrast is today considered to be an extreme oversimplification of the issues involved, because the main continental rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz) were also advocates of the empirical "scientific method" of their day.
		Indeed, he concurred with the main ideas of rationalism, most importantly the idea that rational concepts can be meaningful and the idea that rational concepts necessarily go beyond the data given by empirical observation.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Empirical (4895 words)

	Continental rationalism Article, Continentalrationalism Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Descartes, with his mathematical background, was naturally drawn toward this method, and famously claimed to derive his ownexistence from pure reason (cogito, ergo sum).
		On theheels of his work came continental philosophers such as Spinoza and Leibniz who sought to enlarge and refine the fundamental theoryof rationalism.
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	www.anoca.org /rationalist/knowledge/continental_rationalism.html (291 words)

	Rationalism and Enlightenment / rationalisme et siècle des Lumières / Rationalism product of Enlightenment / ...
		Rationalism immediately became fishy, because the hidden purpose was fishy.
		As a consequence of the new science, philosophy was split in two disciplines: empiricism and rationalism on one side and methaphysics or pure rationalism on the other.Empiricism and rationalism differed only in the importance given to experience, methaphysics didn't use experience at all.
		Maybe Wolff was responsible for the neglect of emotion in rationalism, for along with Leibniz this influential philosopher in his 'Wolffian theory of reality' saw emotion as purely logical ('theological rationalism').
	huizen.daxis.nl /~henkt/rationalism.html (3665 words)

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