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The Ethics of Rationalism & Empiricism
Author: Irfan Ajvazi

The Ethics of Rationalism & Empiricism

Table of Contents:
Chapter I: The Ethics of Rationalism
Chapter II: Karl Popper and Rationalism
Chapter III: Knowledge, Rationalism, Empiricism and the Kantian Synthesis
Chapter IV: Kant’s Knowledge Empiricism and Rationalism
Chapter V: The Radical Rationalism of Rene Descartes
Chapter VI: Was Plato a rationalist or an empricist?
Chapter VII: What is rationalism for Descartes?
Chapter VIII: What is Empiricism?
Chapter IX: Is the rational-empirical form of epistemology superior to the religious form of epistemology?
Chapter X: How was Betrand Russell a rationalist?

Rationalism is also contrasted with the idea that faith and revelation too are valid sources of knowledge and verification.

If you use the methods of the above three doctrines – namely of rationalism, empiricism and faith (revelation) – to assess the validity of the same doctrines for all practical purposes, we can see that all of them have their place in life as lived by us every day.
The problem is when the adherents of each of these doctrines claim that only that particular doctrine is valid to the exclusion of all others.
In the march of human progress in all spheres of human endeavor such as science, technology, art and the efforts for peace-building and social cohesion among other things, we badly need reason, experience and faith.
In the laboratories of science, experiments are conducted, the processes as well as their results are observed and inferences are made. In such cases, both observation using the senses and logical reasoning are crucial.