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NZARH Journal - Winter 2000 More: the agenda of the rationalist movement, as long as it deserves its name, has to be based on the determination to shackle not only the superstructure but the very foundations of organised religion and help more and more people to come out to freedom. This world rationalist movement has to identify fearless and uncompromising leaders, considerate and responsible and with wisdom and vision. From the Lokayatas, the first known rationalists in ancient Asia, to our present time at the beginning of the third millennium of our chronology, the rationalist movement has come a long way. www.nzarh.org.nz /journal/winter00.htm

Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement: INTRODUCTION The first, Pyotr Chaikovsky, was prescient, anticipating, rather than actually joining, the movement; the second, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was resistant, conceiving his penultimate opera as a rationalist and realist response to Symbolist decadence, yet nonetheless succumbing to it in the end. The Russian Symbolist movement is often divided into two generations of writers: the first, "decadent" generation includes the poets Konstantin Balmont (1867-1941), Valeriy Bryusov (1873-1924), Zinaida Hippius (1869-1945), and Dmitriy Merezhkovsky (1865-1941); the second, "mystic" generation includes Andrey Belïy (1880-1934), Alexander Blok (1880-1921), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949). However theirs, not his, were the views that garnered attention as the Symbolist movement matured and that eventually captured the imaginations of composers. www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9385/9385.intro.html

Hood College: Department of Religion and Philosophy An introduction to the primary philosophical movements from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. This course introduces students to the rationalist and the empiricist traditions, as well as addresses philosophical issues in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and political theory. This course aims to introduce students to philosophy through a discussion of issues and movements that have arisen in Western philosophy since 1900. www.hood.edu /academic/religion_philosophy/index.cfm?pid=_pcourse.htm   (926 words)

Graduate Course Offerings The course is an intensive study of selected philosophers or philosophical movements in the history of philosophy. Reading and discussion of the works of one or more of the major rationalist philosophers of the early modern period. A discussion of philosophical problems suggested by theories of physics such as the logical status of Newton's laws, the nature of theories of space and time, the foundations of special and general relativity theory, problems of quantum theory including causal versus statistical laws, complementarity, correspondence, and measurement in quantum mechanics. web.princeton.edu /sites/philosph/gradcourses.htm   (1930 words)

RELROM.TXT Religion and the Romantic Movement By Christopher Dawson The revival of religion that followed the French Revolution was not confined to any one country or to any single Church. Indeed it made itself felt far beyond the limits of organized Christianity and imparted a religious tendency to social and intellectual movements of the most diverse kinds, even though they were apparently in revolt against everything orthodox and traditional, whether in the sphere of religion or morals. The classicist and the rationalist keep as close to the centre of the circle as possible and order their life and their art as though this little sphere of light was the universe. www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/RELROM.TXT   (3056 words)

armstrong.doc On the other hand, probably as left-over form the dissertation, she argues that cultural approaches to SM remain rationalist, but the only evidence of this she gives is that the term “social movement” has political process and policy-orientation connotations. What’s particularly good is that she uses institutionalist arguments, which are usually bad at explaining change, and explains how the movement crystallizes as a result of the sequential confluence of historical particularities. The Transformation of the Lesbian/Gay Movement Critics have charged that identity movements cannot accommodate diversity and therefore can’t link to other groups who might have the same grievances and as a result become divisive and paralyzed. www.cnr.berkeley.edu /~balsiger/summaries/armstrong.doc   (3056 words)

Dravida Peravai Periyar-Anna, the two ideologues of Dravidian Movement laid down firm ideological foundations for equality of all human beings and carrying forward a progressive rationalist global vision. This noble goal set for Dravidian Movement to make its appeal universal was first incorporated in the Manifesto of Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in its formative period. They later found that the newly created seafloor had spread outward from the mid ocean ridges in the zone and theorized that the movement of seafloor could only be fitted in only if a distinct boundary existed between Indian and Australian plates... uk.geocities.com /dravidaperavai   (3056 words)

DRAVIDA PERAVAI A matinee idol became a convenient tool to reverse the march of the rationalist movement and the historical resurgence of the Dravidian Peoples. With an interval of some years after that first abortive attempt, the SouthIndian Welfare and Rights Movement otherwise known as Justice Party emerged in the scene in 1916. Dr.Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of DravidianLanguages highlighted that Tamil is the Mother of Dravidian language school and a primary classical language of the world. www.geocities.com /dravidaperavai   (3056 words)

Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement: INTRODUCTION The first, Pyotr Chaikovsky, was prescient, anticipating, rather than actually joining, the movement; the second, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was resistant, conceiving his penultimate opera as a rationalist and realist response to Symbolist decadence, yet nonetheless succumbing to it in the end. The Russian Symbolist movement is often divided into two generations of writers: the first, "decadent" generation includes the poets Konstantin Balmont (1867-1941), Valeriy Bryusov (1873-1924), Zinaida Hippius (1869-1945), and Dmitriy Merezhkovsky (1865-1941); the second, "mystic" generation includes Andrey Belïy (1880-1934), Alexander Blok (1880-1921), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949). Coming late in the history of Russian Symbolism, the drama illuminates the idiosyncratic preoccupations of the movement: research into ancient myths, revival of pagan rituals, advocacy of social and political upheaval, and the fusion of art and life. www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9385/9385.intro.html   (3056 words)

Encyclopedia: Tamil Nadu E.V.Ramasami Naicker (September 17, 1879–December 24, 1973), also known as Periyar, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar Ramasami, was a well-known rationalist, atheist,freedom-fighter, activist, founder of Dravidar Kazhagam and founder of the Self-respect Movement in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Dravidian movement, which began in Tamil Nadu, aimed at uplifting the socially repressed classes. A large part of the government records like land ownership records are already digitised and all major offices of the state government like land registration offices, and transport offices have been computerized, thereby improving the quality of service and transparency in operations. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tamil-Nadu   (10222 words)

The Modern Rationalist - February - 2003 The endorsement of the concept indicates the failure of the social movements to transform the social, political and legal institutions that perpetuate caste, race, gender and other forms of subordination. Some scholars are of the opinion that the emergence of this concept and its wide usage by the white population makes mckery of the whole civil rights movement and its transformative affect. While speaking in a public meeting in Madras (now Chennai) on January 31, 1954, Periyar said: "Buddha's philosophy, teachings and principles are very useful for the activities of upholding our principles (stated in Self-respect movement) and of eradicating harmful things." www.themronline.com /200302m1.html   (9281 words)

Rationalists of East Tennessee However, similar exaggerations are presented by ecophilists commonly enough to have fueled a copious literature by a backlash anti-environmental movement (see the excellent book by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason). Now, I am sure that Wilson did not mean to consciously mislead the Christian Science Monitor readers, and it is not certain to what extent what was printed was what he meant to say. Scientists have an ethical duty as human beings to become involved in issues of public education, especially when they can bring their expertise to direct bearing over fundamental questions such as the preservation of biodiversity. www.rationalists.org /pubs/rationally/rs2002-06.php?print=1   (9281 words)

Queensland Humanist Members of a Christian Church called the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God had committed a mass "suicide" which later turned out to be, for the most part, a mass murder by the Church leaders. Christian Science nurse Fay Carman Pyatt, who was at Heritage Lodge on the day of Johnson's death, said nurses did not examine patients but if their condition deteriorated they would call a church practitioner. While there is mention of the perennial concerns of humanists these are overlain by a plethora of other concerns which are not only peripheral to the overall humanist endeavour but are likely to be hotly contested by humanists let alone by others in the global community. www.hsq.aunz.com /qh34_2.htm   (9281 words)

Bulletin-29 Today there are hundreds of ex-Muslim rationalists in Kerala, including some who reached the Kerala state leadership of the rationalist movement. On the folio of his personal life Joseph Edamaruku gives deep insights in the history of Kerala's rationalist movement and reveals unknown layers of the cultural history of Kerala. Under the title "Kodungattu Uyarthiya Kalam" (The Times that Raised the Tempest), the work describes the ups and downs of Joseph Edamaruku's eventful life in Kerala, his emerging as a rationalist leader who shaped Kerala's rationalist movement, his career as a writer and one of the most famous journalists of Malayalam language. www.rationalistinternational.net /archive/en/rationalist_2000/29.htm   (1325 words)

SSA Allow the governing authority of the student movement to be placed in the hands of students and former students who are intimately familiar with the issues student groups face, are competent in navigating the unique and challenging campus environment, and who have the experience, knowledge and optimism to champion the rationalist cause. Foster the growth of a coalition of all individuals, groups, and organizations involved in the secular movement by coordinating a student movement committed to the ideal of cooperation and voluntarily oblivious to the cynicism and unnecessarily competitive strategies employed by members of the secular community. Enable the student movement to be ultimately governed by people with the well being of the student movement (and thereby, the future of the secular movement) in mind as the primary goal, rather than the advancement of a particular organization or a profit-generating enterprise. www.americanhumanist.org /Press/ssa-announcement.html   (1640 words)

SSA Allow the governing authority of the student movement to be placed in the hands of students and former students who are intimately familiar with the issues student groups face, are competent in navigating the unique and challenging campus environment, and who have the experience, knowledge and optimism to champion the rationalist cause. Enable the student movement to be ultimately governed by people with the well being of the student movement (and thereby, the future of the secular movement) in mind as the primary goal, rather than the advancement of a particular organization or a profit-generating enterprise. The SSA will be sponsoring a conference each summer, where students can gather to hear nationally renowned speakers, meet other members of the secular community, share their experiences and learning with others, brainstorm novel approaches and strategy within the secular movement and, most of all, to enjoy a fun and memorable weekend. www.americanhumanist.org /Press/ssa-announcement.html   (1640 words)

Why I am not a Humanist The generic term "rationalism" had sometimes been used for the broad freethought movement, but some of the new humanists found rationalism an arid word, connoting an exclusive devotion to reason, despite the fact that sensible rationalists avoided any claim that reason was the only good in human life. It is reminiscent of "I believe in God", and I contend that the freethought or rationalist movement should not be promoting an ersatz religious mode of thinking but offering a radical departure from it by saying that the whole concept of "believing in" (in the dogmatic religious sense) is erroneous. Until the 1940s what is now called the humanist movement was known as the freethought movement. www.atheistfoundation.org.au /humanist.htm   (1523 words)

SSA Though CFA members recognize and are grateful for the pioneering efforts made by the CSH they are confident the student movement has come of age and will reach greater heights as an independent organization. This process includes actions such as helping students successfully create and run campus rationalist groups, coordinating campus to campus speaking tours, making educational materials easily accessible to students, and fostering active cooperation between student groups and like-minded organizations and individuals in their areas. As the CFA grew and matured as an organization the exclusive relationship with the CSH quickly proved more detrimental than beneficial to the student movement, due to the inherent restrictions involved in such an affiliation. www.americanhumanist.org /Press/ssa-announcement.html   (1523 words)

Question 12.33: Is numerology part of Jewish Mysticism? The Tosafist movement (12th and 13th cent CE) wasn't particularly kabbalistic (in fact, the competing pietists movement, Chassidei Ashkenaz was), yet their commentary is rife with gematria. Neither will appeal to the strict rationalist; even if one gives them a rationalist basis. www.faqs.org /faqs/judaism/FAQ/06-Jewish-Thought/section-34.html   (1523 words)

Romanticism It was viewed as "organic," rather than, as in the scientific or rationalist view, as a system of "mechanical" laws, for Romanticism displaced the rationalist view of the universe as a machine (e.g., the deistic image of a clock) with the analogue of an "organic" image, a living tree or mankind itself. It is one of the curiosities of literary history that the strongholds of the Romantic Movement were England and Germany, not the countries of the romance languages themselves. However, as an international movement affecting all the arts, Romanticism begins at least in the 1770's and continues into the second half of the nineteenth century, later for American literature than for European, and later in some of the arts, like music and painting, than in literature. academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/rom.html   (2001 words)

Links to other Humanist sites This is a world-wide movement which will show that the secular/rationalist/Humanist viewpoint is advancing everywhere. The Rationalist Press Association has been publishing rationalist literature since the 19th century and is the publisher of New Humanist magazine. There is also a recording of an interview with Les Reid (former Chair of the Belfast Humanist Group) in which he talks about the origins of his Humanist outlook. www.humanists.net /belfast/links.htm   (2001 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Niranjan Dahr: Vedanta & the Bengal Renaissance: Chapter 10 But even this mature rationalist movement, as we shall see subsequently, had to face opposition of the Vedantic camp almost from its inception and met no better fate than the Derozian movement. Krishnakamal testified that the religious faith of both the brothers rapidly disintegrated under the influence of Vidyasagar, and they became attracted towards the contemporary Positivist movement. Iswar Chandra in his turn was also influenced by Comte as he is seen to have attended the Festival of Humanity organised by the Bengal Positivists in 1887. www.autodidactproject.org /other/bengalren10.html   (5293 words)

Debating India - Dravidian power The real challenge for the Dravidian parties, however, relates to larger issues such as federalism, social justice, empowerment of women and Dalits and the language and cultural interests of Tamils, which the Dravidian Movement has been espousing for long. The Dravidian Movement has, in the past, sought the implementation of its policies and programmes through struggles and legislative measures by the State government. Two general elections later, in 1967, the Congress was humbled once again, more decisively this time, by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a relatively young regional party, which, however, has its origin in the Dravidian Movement which represented since the 1930s the political, social and cultural aspirations of the ancient Tamil community. india.eu.org /1388.html   (5293 words)

Bulletin # 113 His direct and trenchant criticism of all kinds of spiritual frauds enthused the audience wherever he appeared and initiated a new dynamism in the rationalist movement, especially in India. A major turning point in this phase of Kovoor's life and a mark stone on his way to become a rationalist hero in India, was his meeting with Joseph Edamaruku in 1962. Professor Abraham Thomas Kovoor represents a colorful era in the history of the Indian Rationalist Association. www.rationalistinternational.net /archive/en/rationalist_2003/113.htm   (1783 words)

Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion It was essentially a rationalist and apologist movement, which sought to bring about a nahda (renaissance) of Islamic thought. The movement that he started, which was championed by his disciple, Muhammed Abduh of Egypt, was called the salafi movement. Muhammed Abduh sought to replace the four schools of Sunnah Fiqh (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafii and Hanbali) with a single Fiqh. www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2003/April/11/01.html   (1783 words)

SURREALISM Surrealism inherited its anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada, but was lighter in spirit than that movement. Founded in Paris in 1924 by André Breton with his Manifesto of Surrealism, the movement's principal aim was 'to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality'. Surrealism's impact on popular culture can still be felt today, most visibly in advertising. www.artmovements.co.uk /surrealism.htm   (182 words)

The Brights' Net - Enthusiastic Brights (Page 3) Executive Director of the Institute for Humanist Studies, Matt has spent a dozen years as a professional leader in the humanist movement in three different countries. Babu is international advisor to the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief, member of the management council of the International Historical Court, co-editor of three books Rationalist Essays. He serves as International Editor for the New Humanist magazine, published by Britain's Rationalist Press Association, for which he writes a quarterly column, "International Insight." Read his bio. www.the-brights.net /people/enthusiastic/index3.html   (807 words)

The Philosophy of William James James considered philosophies to be expressions of personal temperament and developed a correlation between "tough-minded" and "tender-minded" temperaments and empiricist and rationalist positions in philosophy. James was the founder of the movement of thought called Pragmatism, which not only spread throughout America, but also over Europe as the fashionable philosophy for more than twenty years. The works of Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill were important influences in James's early thinking; Henri Bergson was important both personally and philosophically in his later years, as was John Dewey, who carried on the leadership of the pragmatist movement after James's death. www.radicalacademy.com /philjames.htm   (1978 words)

Evangelicalism, Rhetoric, and the Bible:  'Prooftexting' or 'Scriptural Implant' This is to say that these criticisms of the prooftext are firmly ensconced within a rationalist paradigm with respect to how sense is made of content, the mode in which that content is organized and delivered, and the ultimate aims of the discourse (rational belief). Moreover, both men espouse principles and rules that are governed by rationalist ideas concerning the relationship between religious discourse and religious belief. Conceptually, the term denotes an analogical relationship between discourse external to the Bible (e.g., sermon, religious movement discourse, political campaign rhetoric), and discourse internal to the Bible as two discrete "bodies" of text. www.uttyler.edu /meidenmuller/scholarship/scripturalimplant.htm   (7290 words)

David Kelley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kelley was trained as a philosopher: he received his BA and MA in philosophy from Brown University, where he studied with the American rationalist, Roderick Chisholm. Kelley is known, in particular, for his critique of the orthodox Objectivist movement, which was set out in a pamphlet, "Truth and Toleration" (later republished as the book The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand). This critique subsequently split the movement into two factions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Kelley   (410 words)

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