What about rationalism?

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What is rationalism? What’s wrong with it? Rationalism meant "all truth is in what I see, feel and think?

Argument against rationalism.
 
“Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.”
  • R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (University of Massachusetts Press, 1979), p. 130
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Our ability to see, feel, or think of something has no true bearing on the objective truths of reality. The limitations of human observation and comprehension cannot alter reality. Reality is real; it is only our cognizance of it that changes.
 
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What is rationalism? What’s wrong with it? Rationalism meant "all truth is in what I see, feel and think?
Argument against rationalism.

Doesn’t anyone think before they post? Your definition of rationalism is eccentric to say the least. Feelings? Unless you are making the trivial claim that a statement like "today I feel happy’ is true. And why use ‘I’. Sloppy, Bud.
 
Yes that’s certainly not my understanding of rationalism. I don’t think you can really criticise rationalism, i think you can criticise the misuse of it. For example, the scientific method can give you a perfect description of how to make a nuclear bomb. But it cannot tell you whether you should use it or not, that isn’t what science is designed to do.
 
There are 2 types of knowledge in the universe. The first is a priori knowledge. This is what you normally refer to as knowledge and is knowledge that can be transferred to another person using words. However, the second type of knowledge is experiential knowledge. This is knowledge that can only be transferred to another person by giving them exercises and if they perform these exercises and experience that same things you did, then they could gain this knowledge (e.g. Love, God, etc).
Rationalism really only relates to the a priori knowledge, and so it omits a whole plethora of experience and knowledge. So rationalism alone is not enough to comprehend or grow spiritually.
 
Sorry. I didn’t mean to attack you personally. I’m as guilty as anyone of pressing the submit button when I should not.
 
Since it is heavily affected by the senses, it dies when you die. In the tyrant, its rational side justifies genocide.

Other than that, it’s fine.
 
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