Information About ™Panrationalism |
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| philosophical anthropology | |
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The first problem that need to be dealt with is what is the rational critera or authority that they appeal to? here the panrationalists diverge into two groups; 1. Itellectualists; to whom the rational authority lies in the human intellect, in the faculty of reason. 2. Empiricists; to whom the rational authority is achieved by sense experience (such as seeing or hearing) Descartes is considered the father of intellectualism and gave the illustration ''cogito ergo sum'' as the paradigm to demonstrate what he believed. The problem of both these appeals is that 1. Intellectualism is "too wide" by letting too much in. And Kant radically underminded it in his Antinomies . Furthermore, 2. Empiricism is "too narrow" in that it excludes too much. LINKS Pancritical Rationalism Critical Rationalism REFERENCES W. W. Bartley, ''The Retreat to Commitment'', La Salle; Open Court Publishing Company, 1984. |
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