As a self-described " confirmed scientific rationalist ", Tylor believed that this view was " childish " and typical of " cognitive underdevelopment ", and that it was therefore common in " primitive " peoples such as those living in hunter gatherer societies.

Galen was very interested in the debate between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects, and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection represents a complex middle ground between the extremes of those two viewpoints.

This view was challenged by the " rationalist " Mutazilite philosophers, who held a more Hellenic view, reason above revelation, and as such are known to modern scholars as the first speculative theologians of Islam ; they were supported by a secular aristocracy who sought freedom of action independent of the Caliphate.

Kant claimed it was Hume ’ s skepticism about the nature of inductive reasoning and the conclusions of rationalist metaphysicians ( Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz ) that " roused him from his dogmatic ( i. e. rationalist ) slumbers " and spurred him on to one of the most far reaching re-evaluations of human reason since Aristotle.

In the 17th century English Quakers and evangelical religious groups condemned slavery ( by then applied mostly to Africans ) as un-Christian ; in the 18th century, abolition was part of the message of the First Great Awakening in the Thirteen Colonies ; and in the same period, rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man.

However, while the thought of his mentors Ibn Tufail and Ibn Bajjah were mystic to an extent, the thought of Averroes was purely rationalist.

Phenomenology, as envisioned by Husserl, is a method of philosophical inquiry that rejects the rationalist bias that has dominated Western thought since Plato in favor of a method of reflective attentiveness that discloses the individual's " lived experience ;" for those with a more phenomenological bent, the goal was to understand experience by comprehending and describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event.

Huxley wrote the forward to The Phenomenon of Man ( 1959 ) and was bitterly attacked by his rationalist friends for doing so.

Masaryk as a philosopher was an outspoken rationalist and humanist.

He was especially attracted to Ionescu's radical ideas and his interest in religion, which signified a break with the rationalist tradition represented by senior academics such as Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Dimitrie Gusti, and Tudor Vianu ( all of whom owed inspiration to the defunct literary society Junimea, albeit in varying degrees ).

It was Sa ' adya, who laid foundations for Jewish rationalist theology which built upon the work of Mu ' tazilah, thereby shifting Rabbinic Judaism from mythical explanations of the Rabbis to reasoned explanations of the intellect.

Hasdai Crescas, of Barcelona, was a leading rationalist on issues of natural law and free-will.

He was the father and teacher of a long line of rationalist philosophers and scholars.

Little is known about his life with any reliability, however, and no writings of his survive, so it is possible that he was simply a mystic whose successors introduced rationalism into Pythagoreanism, that he was simply a rationalist whose successors are responsible for the mysticism in Pythagoreanism, or that he was actually the author of the doctrine ; there is no way to know for certain.

Nicolas Malebranche ; ( 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715 ) was a French Oratorian and rationalist philosopher.

But though a liberal theologian, he was no dry rationalist.

He was a graduate of Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō who was originally a rationalist and then became a Christian.

Other writers, however, have argued that, though Taine displayed increasing conservatism throughout his career, he also formulated an alternative to rationalist liberalism that was influential for the social policies of the Third Republic.

His first work, published in 1828, as an answer to Hugh James Rose's Cambridge lectures on rationalist tendencies in German theology, showed a good deal of sympathy with the German " pietists ", who had striven to deliver Protestantism from its decadence ; this sympathy was misunderstood, and Pusey was himself accused of holding rationalist views.

As such Anglicanism was, from the outset, a movement with an explicitly episcopal polity, a characteristic which has been vital in maintaining the unity of the Communion by conveying the episcopate's role in manifesting visible catholicity and ecumenism.

For Carl Jung Hermes was guide to the underworld is become the god of the unconscious, the mediator of information between the conscious and unconscious factors of the mind, and the archetypal messenger conveying communication between realms.

When Laban reached Rachel's tent, she hid the teraphim by sitting on them and stating she could not get up because she was menstruating ; this event was considered by the biblical audience as conveying significant defilement upon the teraphim.

McCarthy cited Hall's involvement as fortunate for Mendes, as the cinematographer was " unsurpassed " at conveying the themes of a work.

The first, from 1729, by Andrew Motte, was described by Newton scholar I. Bernard Cohen ( in 1968 ) as " still of enormous value in conveying to us the sense of Newton's words in their own time, and it is generally faithful to the original: clear, and well written ".

Anne was no doubt responsible for Stead's reasonable attempt at conveying the local accent.

Like Alexander Pushkin, who was her model in many ways, Akhmatova was intent on conveying worlds of meaning through precise details.

On the occasion of the revolt of Absalom he remained faithful to David, and was of service to him in conveying to him tidings of the proceedings of Absalom in Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

While it was customary for Buddhist works to be written in Chinese, Dōgen often wrote in Japanese, conveying the essence of his thought in a style that was at once concise, compelling, and inspiring.

Ten years later there were several Jewish families in the town ; on Feb. 3, 1747, there was recorded a deed to Isaac Nunus Ricus ( Henriques ) and Joseph Simon, conveying of land " in trust for the society of Jews settled in and about Lancaster ," to be used as a place of burial.

Until the 17th century, the primary means of conveying goods and people from these eyries was by means of baskets and ropes.

Due to difficulties in reconciling the description of Plutarch with the earlier accounts, and circumstantial evidence such as the cryptographic weakness of the device, several authors have suggested that the scytale was used for conveying messages in plaintext and that Plutarch's description is mythological.

The deed conveying the grant of Mount Vernon, then in Stafford County, to Washington and Spencer was dated March 1, 1677, and was signed by ' Tho.

The most well known of these is a verse of the Quran stating, “ Oh you who believe, if a wrongdoer should approach you conveying information, then verify that so as not to fall into ignorance thus regretting what you have done .” While this verse was revealed regarding a particular individual, it is a general principle.

It is believed the gas was escaping from a high-pressure underground pipeline conveying natural gas from Zeebrugge to France, operated by gas transportation company Fluxys.

There was some discussion as to whether the Statute of Praemunire meant that no response could be made: the compromises reached included conveying messages on a ' private ' rather than ' official ' level, or going via the Hanoverian minister at London ( responding as King of Hanover ).

Some believed that the life-sized statue was not appropriate for conveying his importance in the history of Quebec.

The prisoners of these sea battles were eventually executed in 1523 for crimes of " robbery in the high seas " and cannibalism, while Tomé Pires was kept prisoner so that he could write letters to the King of Portugal, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, and the Governor of Malacca conveying the new Ming emperor's message that the Portuguese should leave Malacca and restore it to the rightful rule of its deposed king.

It has also been suggested that the pallium did not indicate Justus was archbishop, since Justus is told the limited circumstances in which he may wear it ; however, the same phrasing occurs in the letter conveying the pallium to Archbishop Augustine, also quoted in Bede.

In this view, Bede has conflated the letter conveying the pallium with the letter congratulating Justus on the conversion, which according to Bede ’ s account was seven or so years earlier ; but the grammatical details on which this suggestion is based are not unique to this letter, and as a result it is usually considered to be a single composition.

She was present at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 ( but too small to play a part in the battle itself ), under the command of John Richards Lapenotiere, who was entrusted with conveying the message about the victory and the death of Lord Nelson to England.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

There was no display of either works in progress or of finished work.

What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.

But one wishes, when the appetite is whetted, as it was in the case of the all-too-brief excerpt from the Blomdahl opera, that further opportunity would be provided both for hearing the works in their entirety and for a closer analytical look at the sense and nature of the compositions.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Agatha's imagination was creative, boundless, and forever popular as evidence by some 200 works in over 100 languages world-wide.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.

In contrast, there was an Old Text school that advocated the use of Confucian works written in ancient language ( from this comes the denomination Old Text ) that were so much more reliable.

Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

In English-language works, it is sometimes said that Arians believe that Jesus is or was a " creature ", in the sense of " created being ".

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the bond upon it in exchange for the family's share in the copyright of Sir Walter's works.