Clement, like many pre-Nicene fathers, writes favourably about Euhemerus and other rationalist philosophers, on the grounds that they at least saw the flaws in paganism.

This Prime Mover, first cause, argument later came to be called natural theology by rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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.

Coherence theories distinguish the thought of rationalist philosophers, particularly of Spinoza, Leibniz, and G. W. F.

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

The importance of rationalist philosophers such as John Locke, Descartes, Spinoza and many others who followed them, and the scientific, social and economic developments of this period began to have ever greater impact, and in place of the older classical idealism, a more realistic, pragmatic, empirical understanding of life and human behavior, which recognized human individuality and conscious experience, began to emerge.

Medieval, rationalist Jewish philosophers ( exponents of " Hakirah "- rational " investigation " from first principles in support of Judaism ), such as Maimonides, describe Biblical Monotheism to mean that there is only one God, and His essence is a unique, simple, infinite Unity.

The American rationalist Brand Blanshard was so strongly influenced by Bradley, Bosanquet, and Green ( and other British philosophers ) that he could almost be classified as a British philosopher himself.

This is more of an issue now than it was for rationalist philosophers prior to Newton, such as Descartes, for whom physical processes were poorly defined.

This was the program of Jewish rationalist philosophers such as Saadia Gaon, Maimonides ( who was influenced by Ibn Sina aka Avicenna ), and Gersonides ( who was influenced by Ibn Roshd, aka Averroes ).

In the 18th century, some rationalist natural philosophers sought to recover a supposed Edenic language.

Quine's theory relates to other nativist philosophical traditions, such as the European rationalist philosophers.

Coherence theories distinguish the thought of continental rationalist philosophers, especially Spinoza, Leibniz, and G. W. F.

Pierre Bayle ( 1647 – 1706 ), French philosopher and critic, whose Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary, 1697 ) greatly influenced the French Encyclopedists and the rationalist philosophers of the eighteenth century, such as Voltaire and Diderot, esteemed her highly, writing: "... for a queen to grant her protection to people persecuted for opinions which she believes to be false ; to open a sanctuary to them ; to preserve them from the flames prepared for them ; to furnish them with a subsistence ; liberally to relieve the troubles and inconveniences of their exile, is an heroic magnanimity which has hardly any precedent ..."

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.

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.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

This theory contrasts with the rationalist view that concepts are perceptions ( or recollections, in Plato's term ) of an independently existing world of ideas, in that it denies the existence of any such realm.

A moral rationalist may adhere to any number of different semantic theories as well ; moral realism is compatible with rationalism, and the subjectivist ideal observer theory and noncognitivist universal prescriptivism both entail it.

Averroes's strictly rationalist views collided with the more orthodox views of Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur, who therefore eventually banished Averroes, though he had previously appointed him as his personal physician.

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.

It follows the rationalist design Miesian style: incorporating steel and glass, but with the added accent of panels in two shades of blue.

Out of the early 20th century rationalist architecture of Berlage, architect of the Beurs van Berlage, three separate groups developed during the 1920s, each with their own view on which direction modern architecture should take.

In it he argued that there were fundamental problems with both rationalist and empiricist dogma.

As envisioned by Husserl, phenomenology 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 .” Loosely rooted in an epistemological device, with Sceptic roots, called epoché, Husserl ’ s method entails the suspension of judgment while relying on the intuitive grasp of knowledge, free of presuppositions and intellectualizing.

Before leaving the Academy, Jacobsen also travelled to Germany, where he became acquainted with the rationalist architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

Hayek christened these the pragmatic and rationalist schools, the former evolving institutions with an eye towards liberty and the later creating a brave new world by sweeping all the old and therefore useless ideas away.

Sharing the humanist and rationalist outlook of the European Enlightenment of the same time period, the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment asserted the fundamental importance of human reason combined with a rejection of any authority which could not be justified by reason.

Huxley had a close association with the British rationalist and secular humanist movements.

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 ).

Neorealist and other rationalist and neorationalist authors ( with the exception of Stephen Walt ) would generally disregard soft power since they assume for theoretical purposes that actors in international relations respond to only two types of incentives: economic incentives and force.

Influenced by the rationalist school of thought and generally showing a preference for a natural ( as opposed to miraculous ) redemption for the Jewish people, Maimonides proposed a rationalist solution for achieving the goal of re-establishing the highest court in Jewish tradition and reinvesting it with the same authority it had in former years.

This is highly contentious since the turuq were Sufi orders with established lineages while the Muslim Brotherhood is a modern, rationalist tradition.

" The rationalist movement had shaken the persecutor's sword from the hand of faith and religion had been to school with her rival reason.

Berlitz, and Elime de Sauzé, whose rationalist theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by Noam Chomsky and others.

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.

According to the critical rationalist, if there is a sense in which humans accrue knowledge positively by experience, it is only by pivoting observations off existing conjectural theories pertinent to the observations, or off underlying cognitive schemas which unconsciously handle perceptions and use them to generate new theories.

In January 2000, Rationalist International organized the Second International Conference at Trivandrum, Kerala in which prominent rationalist thinkers from different parts of the world opened the discussion about the Rationalist Agenda for the new century.

In this capacity, he ordered the replanning and reconstruction of his native town of Tresigallo along rationalist lines, intending to transform it into a " new town " of Italy.

Neology (" study of new "), the name given to the rationalist theology of Germany or the rationalisation of the Christian religion.

Different degrees of emphasis on this method or theory lead to a range of rationalist standpoints, from the moderate position " that reason has precedence over other ways of acquiring knowledge " to the more extreme position that reason is " the unique path to knowledge ".

Among those groups that did reject naskh were the Mu ' tazili and Zaidiyah, on the rationalist grounds that the word of God could not contain contradictions, and the much later Ahmadīs, who argued that all Qur ' ānic verses have equal validity, in keeping with their emphasis on the " unsurpassable beauty and unquestionable validity of the Qur ' ān ".