the emergence of rationalist and traditionist approaches among moslems was the result of attention to different verses of the holy quran, some denoting reasoning and some denoting devotion. these different approaches to quran led to the formation of mo'tazele and asha'arites schools among the sunnites and osuliyyun (rationalists) and traditionists among the shiites. this difference wa...

To repress the growing regional/national identity, the motherland country applies Rationalism strategies including economic incentive and military threat. Analysis of Taiwan National Security Survey in 2003-2015 shows that China’s carrot and stick policies negatively correlates with exclusive Taiwanese identity, but the effects, not perceptions, decline among the young generations.

Fatalism and Rationality are two separate valuable attributes. In Rationalism and rationality, the active and creative role of human is emphasized, meaning ignorance aversion, imagination aversion, illusion removal and superstition removal. This concept is the opposite of the concept of fatalism in which human has the minimum activity and the emphasis is very much on the role of trans-physics i...

This paper argues that emotions can play an epistemic role as justifiers of evaluative beliefs. It also presents the heuristics theory emotion empirically informed explanation how such a and why they in practice usefully complement non-affective judgments. As such, represents form moderate rationalism: it acknowledges be epistemically valuable, even privileged some sense, but denies would uniqu...

This paper considers and analyses the idea propounded by Iain McGilchrist that foundation of Western rationalism is dominance left side brain this occurred first in ancient Greece. It argues transformation Greece, as part a more widespread sometimes termed Axial Age, was, at least part, connected to emergence literacy which transformed workings human brain. was not uniform took different forms ...