What are the philosophies that are contradictory to Catholicism

[dumbseeker]

What are the philosophies that are contradictory to Catholicism?

Are Nietzsche’s and Rand’s contradictory?

 

[catholic1seeks]

Top of my head…

Atheism and those which have lead to it:
Rationalism (use of reason alone)
Materialism (anything supernatural doesn’t exist)
Idealism (our ideas are separate from the world and our bodies)
Scientism (only the scientific method can prove that which is true)

Views of God:
Deism (there’s a supreme being that created the Universe but has left it “by itself”)
Pantheism (God is the Universe)

Faith:
Fideism (faith alone without reason)

 

[Katholish]

That question is a little too large to be eaily answered. Almost all modern and recent philosophical systems (Descartes on) that I can think of contradict a sound Catholic approach to philosophy.

 

[RobbyS]

That question is a little too large to be eaily answered. Almost all modern and recent philosophical systems (Descartes on) that I can think of contradict a sound Catholic approach to philosophy.

Etienne Gilson once compared Descartes with Augustine and said that Augustine started with the facts and Descartes with thought. Idealism. as a philosopy has run aground on reality, but we are at present at war with reality.