Rationalism
Rationalism is the school of philosophy that relies on the use of logic and reason to understand man and the world. The earliest use of rationalism can be found in the works of Plato. In both his original writing, as well as his recounting of the dialogs of Socrates, Plato revealed his belief in this abstract logic based view of the world. It … Keep Reading → would be more than one thousand years later until the time of Rene Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, and Baruch Spinoza that the philosophy of rationalism would truly take form as a school of philosophy. The work of these men sought to clarify the rationalist doctrine. They addressed questions such as concept of religion in rationalist thought. Other subjects in rationalist thought of the time dealt with the confusion over whether all thoughts should be rational or if there were times when an empiricist view was appropriate.
