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... rational foundation for these beliefs ? It is customary to distinguish between revealed and natural or rational theology . Knowledge about God which rests upon revelations made directly to some man or group , and recorded in various ...
... rational foundation for these beliefs ? It is customary to distinguish between revealed and natural or rational theology . Knowledge about God which rests upon revelations made directly to some man or group , and recorded in various ...
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... rational animal . By rational as applied to man I understand him to mean two things : having ( 1 ) the power to discover what is the case , and to guide con- duct by such knowledge , i.e. , to develop pure and applied sciences ; ( 2 ) ...
... rational animal . By rational as applied to man I understand him to mean two things : having ( 1 ) the power to discover what is the case , and to guide con- duct by such knowledge , i.e. , to develop pure and applied sciences ; ( 2 ) ...
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... rational morality , you must recognize that it is binding on all rational beings . He is content to accept both rational knowl- edge and rational morality as facts to be recognized , not as hypotheses to be proved . Once the notion of a ...
... rational morality , you must recognize that it is binding on all rational beings . He is content to accept both rational knowl- edge and rational morality as facts to be recognized , not as hypotheses to be proved . Once the notion of a ...
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