Published: 2018-09-141

In the Quest for Sense: Rationalism and What’s Next?

Sebastian Dama
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.887

Abstract

Rationalism in European culture has existed since Antiquity. However, in each of the ages, it received different forms: metaphysical, classical and pragmatic. These various forms of rationalism have an impact on the things in the spiritual space like: attitudes, beliefs and paradigms, in a given epoch. And so, in Ancient times rationalism wasn’t opposite to the metaphysics, it even connect with it, in the Middle Ages there was a distinction between the metaphysical rationalism, where it was connected with Christianity, and at the same rationalism was born and after the Modernity became known as the classical rationalism. However, in the era of contemporaneity, rationalism took the pragmatic and theoretical form in different social ideas (e.g. exchange theory, rational choice theory), and it goes far from what is described as the practice in Antiquity (Aristotle), which has turned into social problems and it could be called as a crisis of culture.

Keywords:

ascedia, ecclesia, gnosis, rationalism, meonity, practice, pragmatism, exchange theory, order of the spirit, order of the reason

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Dama, S. (2018). In the Quest for Sense: Rationalism and What’s Next?. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (16), 197–212. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.887

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