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Kant Rationalism

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Fundamentalism is usually characterized by scholars as a religious response to modernism, especially the theory of evolution as an explanation of human origins and the idea that solutions to problems can be found without regard to traditional religious values. Protestant Christian fundamentalists hold that the Bible is the final authority on matters of all sorts, that it is infallible in every way, including details of its stories which appear to be in conflict with modern scientific teaching, and that the "fundamental" tenets of the faith are nonnegotiable and exempt from the varieties of interpretation that members of less authoritarian religious bodies might place on such teachings. Protestant fundamentalists sometimes embrace a view of …show more content…

He didn’t accept either of both views but he gave credit to both. German philosopher published his first work – Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces in 1747. Explaining the nature of space, Kant rejected post-Leibniz rationalists, arguing that metaphysic methods can prove the existence of essential force. Afterwards, Kant mainly focused on philosophical issues although he continued to write on science and similarly as Leibnizian also criticized Newton’s views. Some of Kant’s other works are Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of …show more content…

Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship is among history's most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press. Milton was a proponent of monism or animist materialism, the notion that a single material substance which is "animate, self-active, and free" composes everything in the universe: from stones and trees and bodies to minds, souls, angels, and God. Some of his works are the Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson

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