This article looks at God and religion from the position of rationalism, an approach to life based on reason and evidence. Rationalism is an approach to life based on reason and evidence. Rationalism ...

The triumph of the concept of rationalism, which lay at the center of the processes that formed our Western civilization from the 16 th century on, was not as swift or easy as it would seem to the ...

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x When Nietzsche launched the postmodern attack on the ...

Positivism seems to be having a bit of a moment. To give just one example, last month, COMPACT ran a very interesting essay on Comte's "Religion of Humanity," a nineteenth-century version of a ...

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One morning in the summer of 2015, I sat in a featureless office in Berkeley as a young computer programmer walked me through how he intended to save the world. The world needed saving, he insisted, ...

With his heavy eyeliner and quirky act, comedian and musician Tim Minchin considers himself a “gateway drug” to science, philosophy and rationalism Any understanding of science I have is ...