Idealism And Rationalism: Non Dogma Based Political Party

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Rationalists argue that rationalism as a philosophy leads to scientific methods through deep thinking. Therefore human beings cannot be prone to any ideology that is both political and ideological neither can a rationalist claim a true statement unless that statement is a pure preposition. So a believer in rationalist theory cannot be affirmative that God is not a real entity because God is still not a well defined concept and all religious concepts of God are inconsistent with logic. Therefore existence or non existence of God is not significant for rationalists. Rationalists can have an opinion about anything if that opinion does not go against logic, findings and observation. For e.g. a rationalist can form an hypotheses on a reason for a crime if conclusive …show more content…

A person however can because of emotional attachment or biasness but a rationalist cannot. A rationalist chooses reason not emotion to guide him. For a rationalist affiliation with a non dogma based political party will be based on their performance and strictly performance, thus affiliation with a party should not be stagnant but static on the basis assessment of that criterion. It should be noted that if we go into the literal meaning of dogma it shows that it does not spring from research and conclusive data; therefore to justify dogma by reason is in contradiction with rationalism. If majority adopt rationalism rather than emotions to lead them then the millions wasted on dogmas, religious rituals and social evils will be minimized Party loyalty does not exist for rationalists if unless that one party is always better than the others on fulfilling that criterion. A rationalist should be ready to accept whichever point of view that logical reasoning may lead to, even if it leads him to a direction that is against popular