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antirationalist

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  • adjective Opposing philosophical rationalism.
  • noun One who rejects philosophical rationalism.

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Examples

  • But on the basis of this presupposition it offers at the same time a considerably antirationalist model of religion, a modern "mystic": The Absolute is not to be believed, but to be experienced.

    Close your mouth, no barking like a dog! Mumon 2005

  • Carlyle, Schopenhauer, and other antirationalist thinkers of the nineteenth century, culminating in

    THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968

  • Hamann was brought up as a Pietist, a member of the most introspective and self-absorbed of all the Lutheran sects, intent upon the direct com - munion of the individual soul with God, bitterly antirationalist, liable to emotional excess, preoccupied with the stern demands of moral obligation and the needs for severe self-discipline.

    THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968

  • He is the father of those antirationalist thinkers for whom the seamless whole of reality in its unanalyzable flow is misrepresented by the static, spatial metaphors of mathematics and the natural sciences.

    THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968

  • Certainly I see this and BSG as data points in the antirationalist trend that's been growing since the turn of the century (and in some ways before that).

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

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