It is in vain that false philosophers would persuade us that altruism, some vague "moral element of Christianism," will combine with rationalism and perpetuate our Christian civilization in some transcendent form.
Rationalism became fashionable in educated circles, at the courts, and at the universities.
In the higher circles of society Rationalismwas looked upon as a sign of good breeding, while those who held fast by their dogmatic beliefs were regarded as vulgar and unprogressive.
Lecky, /History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe/, 1913.
Lecky, /The History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe/, 1913, p.
Quite naturally, too, the first gropings after a scientific theory of disease show a curious mixture of rationalism and superstition.
And as he is "applying rationalism to a sphere above reason," the mystic may give full vent to his imaginative powers.
It wished to be sensible, and admitted in principle the right of 'private judgment' or rationalism so far as consistent with Protestantism.
Malthus was thus brought up under the influences of the modified rationalism which was represented by the Unitarians outside the establishment and by Paley within.
Protestantism in one aspect is simply rationalism still running about with the shell on its head.
He sympathised as heartily as any man could do in the general spirit of rationalism and the desire that every belief should be the outcome of the fullest and freest discussions possible.
The inquiring intellect cannot furnish substitutes for them; rationalism utterly fails in all its attempts to satisfy the spiritual nature.
It was from the general scepticism and rationalism of the times she learned to reject all religion as false to truth and as not giving a just interpretation of life and its facts.
Among such serviceable writers, Mr. Lecky's History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe entitles him to a high place.
Mr. Lecky did not pass gently through her hands when she reviewed his Rationalism in Europe.
The chief vice and the misfortune of rationalism is to be anti-religious.
Orthodoxy is mistaken as to the nature of the body of religion; rationalism as to the nature of its soul.
From these two tendencies combined, from Greek rationalism and Hebrew supernaturalism, sprang the new notion that may be summed up and defined thus: a divine doctrine legitimated by divine signs or miracles.
This was conceived by the Cartesian Rationalism as a finished and coherent whole, a system of identical movements and phenomena which were produced by virtue of the same springs acting in the same circle (the vortices of Descartes).
From these two tendencies, perpetual and parallel, have issued the two solutions given by Rationalism and by Orthodoxy to the problem as to the essence of Christianity.
Orthodoxy is a thousand times right as against rationalism or mysticism, when it proclaims the necessity for a Church of formulating its faith into a doctrine, without which religious consciousnesses remain confused and undiscernible.
Not so long as you cling to the intellectualist conception which forms the error common to both Rationalism and Orthodoxy, and ensures their final failure.
Nominalism in the fifteenth century and rationalism in the eighteenth were the two natural heirs of orthodoxy.
At the other extreme is the attempt of rationalism to include the Christian religion in general ethics and philosophy.
Rationalism idolizes reason, and makes this the criterion for religion.
One year after it was published, Rationalism went into a third edition.
LECKY Amazement was the feeling of the reading world on learning that the author of the History of Rationalism was only twenty-seven, and the writer of the History of European Morals only thirty-one.
But the current of Rationalism was running too strongly to be so summarily stopped; and so with Kant's ablest successors faith is altogether abandoned, while the claims of reason are pushed relentlessly through.
But the sort of arguments that he adduces for the existence of a God prove that in theology at least his rationalism had rather narrow limits.
BENN, Author of "The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century," Etc.
Little more has been done for it than to accumulate and classify a few isolated facts.
That such, however, should still be the case, is far more the fault of the antiquary than of the student of other sciences.
The hint was lost, but the accumulation of materials for future students was happily not altogether abandoned.
Scepticism, positivism, and agnosticism agree with ordinary dogmatic rationalism in presupposing that everybody knows what the word 'truth' means, without further explanation.
With this mild outbreak of rationalism Heloise passes out of the pages of history, save for a brief reintroduction in Abélard’s closing year.
His rationalism flows spontaneously and irresistibly from his type of mind and character.
Lecky is eminent for his history of "Rationalism in Europe" and "History of Morals.
The rationalism of the Platonic school and the supernaturalism of the Jewish Scriptures were chiefly mingled together, and from this amalgamation sprang the system of Neo-Platonism.
It is the essence of Protestantism, and in the end transforms itself into rationalism and infidelity.
We have said, so to speak, because even then the sensible order is not altered or broken, as rationalism imagines; it is the application of the general sensible order to a particular body which is suspended.
It is old Protestantism revamped, and varnished with a mixture of rationalism and orientalism.
But by the samerationalism we may break up any loyalty.
This rationalism is certainly in part a product of systematic education and propaganda, a conscious exploitation of science, and it is in part temperamental.
Excessive rationalism in national consciousness is itself a menace.
If we accept the validity of this attitude in life we shall be inclined to regard rationalism as it is manifested to-day in German life as an evil.
And under rationalism are positivism and absolutism, in which reality is order and knowledge is reason.
The names voluntarism, intuitionism and rationalism have been applied to philosophies whose method is one or other of the three outlined above.
The tendencies of the more shallow type of modern rationalism exhibit a similar Sophistical thought.
Popular rationalism asserts that the doctrine of the Trinity is contrary to reason.
A wave of rationalism and scepticism passed over the Greek people.
The success of such preaching can be but temporary, and must be followed by a disastrous reaction toward rationalism and immorality.
Rationalism is thus only consistent with itself when it refuses to attribute consciousness to God.
If the views now advanced are presentations of truth, a consistent rationalism must attribute "consciousness to God.
The rationalism of the Deists did not approve itself to him.
If such is the conclusion of Rationalism and of Pantheism, how much more ought it to be the conclusion of Christianity.
