Rational or not
Using math to solve problems and conclude reasonings
Rational
The idea of being born with knowledge
Innate knowledge
Gave the rational theory the line of deductive thinking and using this argument to become more rational as a thinker.
Renes Decartes
Rationalism is this branch of philosophy
Epistemology
Slavery is wrong
Rational
The concept of breaking down things we understand to come to a logical conclusion
Deductive reasoning
Argued to subtract all sensory thoughts and use only pure innate and known intellect.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What 4 subjects did rationalism impact?
Politics, Religion, Science, Social structures
God created the world
Not rational
This is the opposite of rationalism
Empiricism
Argued a Moral side to rationality and how the perception of things around us builds an understanding of how we morally structure ourselves
Immanuel Kant
This was the period when rationalism was revived
The Enlightenment Period
The apple fell off the tree due to a supernatural superior being
Not rational
Uses logic and innate knowledge to learn about things around us, this can also mean that a rationalist does not look at experience or emotion just pure logic to learn and configure the world.
Rationalism
Who were the main three "fathers of rationalism"
Renes Decartes, Immanuel Kant, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
What are the three claims of rationalism?
The Intuition/Deduction Thesis, The Innate Knowledge Thesis, and The Innate Concept Thesis