When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to
rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie.
The story's narrator, whose journal entries initially reveal him to be a staunch
rationalist, begins to accept supernaturalism when a hurricane throws him from his sinking boat onto a large, mystical ship.
What follows is the history and future of secular thinking in Australia and the special contribution of six people who were responsible for the formation and early development of those Australian organizations described as secularist,
rationalist, atheist, and humanist.
Summary: New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): Terming it as "a very serious case", the Supreme Court on Friday fixed February 26 as the date to hear the plea seeking a special investigative team (SIT) probe into the killings of noted Kannada writer and
rationalist MM Kalburi, filed by his wife Umadevi Kalburgi.
Summary: Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 09 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday informed the Pune court that it has got a clearance from Maharashtra's environment ministry to conduct a search operation in the depths of the Arabian sea to find out the weapon used to murder
rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
All this artistic hype isn't accidental: A quarter century back, against all the available evidence, the Oslo "achievement" was already being hyped by European diplomats, by adjuncts to then Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, by the cortege of Yasser Arafat, and by the confection of
rationalist policymakers and commentators that elite American universities had just started to produce.
The theological issue of the divine attributes was a major debate between traditionalist and
rationalist Muslim scholars since the early centuries of Islam, and Ovadia explores the methods that Hanbalite scholar of 8th/14th century Damascus, Ibn al-Qayyim (d.
A DAY after Karnataka's Home Minister G Parameshwara returned from New Delhi after meeting Congress President Sonia Gandhi, he announced the formation of a special team within the Criminal Investigation Department ( CID) to probe the killing of renowned writer and
rationalist Dr M.
"The role of
rationalist scholars in the Islamic civilizations was much more than what it is today.
In short, the first strand, which Levy calls "
rationalist," prioritizes "the freedom of persons within groups," while the second, dubbed "pluralist," prioritizes "the freedom of groups from the state."