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Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.
— Rationalism
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.
Rationalism in politics, as I have interpreted it, involves an identifiable error, a misconception with regard to the nature of human knowledge, which amounts to a corruption of the mind. And consequently it is without the power to correct its own short-comings; it has no homeopathic quality; you cannot escape its errors by becoming more sincerely or more profoundly rationalistic.
"Rationalism" is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions.
