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The 47 pages that link to Rationalism, each with the reason it gives.

• Romanticism in philosophyCompared with: Romantic critiques challenged reason’s claim to provide a complete account of human life.

• Immanuel KantRelated: Kant inherited rationalism’s claims about reason and sought to establish their legitimate limits.

• David HumeCompared with: Hume rejects rationalist claims that reason alone establishes facts about the world.

• René DescartesNarrower topic: Descartes is a central early modern rationalist, grounding knowledge in reason rather than sensory experience alone.

• EmpiricismCompared with: Rationalism is empiricism's classic early modern rival over knowledge's foundations.

• EpistemologyCompared with: It contrasts with accounts that give experience the primary role in knowledge.

• PragmatismCompared with: Pragmatism challenges accounts that treat abstract reason as sufficient apart from practical testing.

• Mary WollstonecraftRelated: Her equality argument rests on women’s capacity to reason, not merely on custom or sentiment.

• A ConfessionCompared with: Tolstoy finds that rational explanation does not answer why life should be lived.

• Baruch SpinozaNarrower topic: Spinoza builds his account of reality through deductive reasoning modeled on geometry.

• Moral psychologyCompared with: It contrasts with accounts that give moral intuition priority over conscious reasoning.

• KantianismCompared with: Kant both draws on rationalist arguments and limits their claims about knowledge beyond experience.

• French EnlightenmentRelated: Confidence in reason underwrote criticism of customs defended only by tradition.

• A priori and a posterioriCompared with: Rationalism gives a priori knowledge a larger role than empiricism typically allows.

• Moral emotionsCompared with: Rationalist accounts challenge explanations that give emotion priority in moral judgment.

• Age of EnlightenmentRelated: Enlightenment thinkers applied confidence in reason to questions beyond mathematics and metaphysics.

• CartesianismNarrower topic: Cartesianism is a major early modern form of rationalist philosophy.

• Counter-EnlightenmentRelated: Critics disputed the claim that reason could govern knowledge and society on its own.

• George EliotRelated: Evans’s intellectual formation included rationalist criticism of inherited religious authority.

• Gulliver’s TravelsCompared with: The Houyhnhnms’ reasoned order sits uneasily beside Swift’s suspicion of abstract ideals.

• Innate ideasRelated: Rationalists often argue that reason discovers truths not supplied by the senses.

• Joseph de MaistreCompared with: He distrusted abstract reasoning as a basis for redesigning society.

• Principle of Sufficient ReasonNarrower topic: The principle became a signature commitment of early modern rationalist metaphysics.

• Surrealist automatismCompared with: Automatism deliberately unsettles the rational control that Surrealists associated with conventional expression.

• Tabula rasaCompared with: Rationalists often argue that reason or innate principles contribute knowledge beyond sensory experience.

• Western philosophyBroader topic: Its confidence in reason shaped early modern debates about the foundations of knowledge.

• A Vindication of the Rights of WomanRelated: Wollstonecraft treats women’s capacity for reason as the basis for their education and independence.

• Great AwakeningCompared with: The revivalists' emphasis on heartfelt conversion differed from rationalist approaches to religious belief.

• PhilosophyCompared with: Its claims about reason’s reach are debated within philosophical inquiry.

• Gaston BachelardCompared with: Bachelard’s rationalism is historically revised, while his account of poetry gives imagination a separate domain.

• The Theory of Moral SentimentsCompared with: Smith gives moral sentiments a constitutive role that rationalist ethics often assigns to reason.

• An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingCompared with: Hume limits a priori knowledge to relations of ideas, challenging expansive rationalist claims.

• Critique of Pure ReasonCompared with: Kant challenges rationalists’ claims to know supersensible objects through pure reason alone.

• María ZambranoCompared with: Zambrano challenged rationalism when it reduced reality to what abstract concepts could master.

• The BacchaeCompared with: Pentheus’ demand for evidence and control is undone by forces his reasoning cannot contain.

• Mary AstellNarrower topic: Astell used reason to challenge claims that women were naturally less capable than men.

• Modern philosophyRelated: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz made reason central to modern inquiry.

• An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingCompared with: The Essay challenges claims that reason can establish innate principles.

• Discourse on the MethodNarrower topic: The work exemplifies an approach that gives reason a central role in discovering truth.

• IrrationalismCompared with: It gives reason the foundational authority that irrationalism denies.

• LebensphilosophieCompared with: Lebensphilosophie often resists rationalism when it abstracts from the texture of living.

• Enlightenment philosophyRelated: It supplied arguments for universal principles and confidence in human reasoning.

• Lev ShestovCompared with: Shestov rejected reason’s claim to establish universal truths and necessities.

• Peripatetic axiomCompared with: Rationalist accounts give reason a source of knowledge the axiom does not foreground.

• Rebecca GoldsteinNarrower topic: Goldstein’s portraits of Spinoza and Gödel repeatedly examine the power and limits of reason.

• Sathya Sai BabaCompared with: Rationalist critics challenged supernatural explanations of events attributed to Sai Baba.

• WolffianismNarrower topic: Wolffianism extends rationalist confidence in reason into a tightly ordered body of knowledge.