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Someone who believes truth can be accessed through pure thought.
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rationalist
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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"...So the first oversimplification is Plato is what we call a rationalist. Aristotle is what we call an empiricist. All right? So these are..."
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"...emerge in Europe. And so, Plato becomes what we call the rationalist. So, Descartes. And Aristotle becomes what we call the empiricist. Okay? So,..."
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"...secular is maybe a misnomer, but they were very like enlightenment rationalists and they saw themselves as setting up a formal nation. And I..."
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"...there are two major camps in Western philosophy. There is the rationalist camp, all right, so people like Descartes. And then there are the..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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