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Michael Oakeshott, author of Rationalism in Pipe-Smoking. This leads to the second part, where Oakeshott differentiates between technical knowledge, which is formulated in rules, and practical knowledge, which is gained through experience, and often passed down orally instead of being formally recorded. A simple example would be raising a baby.
Aug 19, 2004 · The dispute between rationalism and empiricism takes place primarily within epistemology, the branch of philosophy devoted to studying the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge. Knowledge itself can be of many different things and is usually divided among three main categories: knowledge of the external world, knowledge of the internal world ...
- Peter Markie, M. Folescu
- 2004
3 days ago · Rationalism, in Western philosophy, the view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge. Holding that reality itself has an inherently logical structure, rationalists assert that a class of truths exists that the intellect can grasp directly. Rationalism has long been the rival of empiricism.
- Brand Blanshard
Mar 8, 2016 · Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) is often called a conservative thinker. But this label identifies only one aspect of his thought and invites misunderstanding because it is ambiguous. His ideas spring from a lifetime of reading in the literature of European thought, sharpened by philosophical reflection on its arguments and presuppositions.
Apr 13, 2015 · Three views of rationality have been especially important in thinking about politics in the modern world: the economic, the moral, and the historical. These views can be found in political thinking in many contexts and have invited investigations of the claims, assumptions, and limitations of each. Theorists have asked whether they can be ...
- Terry Nardin
- 2015
RATIONALISM IN POLITICS'. AUREL KOLNAI. THIs is in the main a book of Political Philosophy and as such of the utmost interest; but, apart from crossing in places the borders of sociology, aesthetics and the history of European thought as well, it is also of great. relevance for the Philosophy of Practice, one might say Ethics, even.
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Linda M. G. Zerilli - Charles E. Merriam Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago. ‘Peter Steinberger's Rationalism in Politics makes an important bookend to Michael Oakeshott's famous work of the same title. Unlike Oakeshott, however, Steinberger believes that politics is a rational activity capable of evaluation ...
