Panrationalism
The panrationalism is the epistemological view that it is only reasonable to represent a claim if it can be justified by resorting to rational criteria or authorities. Panrationalism, alongside irrationalism, is one of the two main forms of justification strategy .
According to William W. Bartley, there are two forms of panrationalism: intellectualism (sometimes also called rationalism), for which the rational authority lies in the human intellect and in the faculty of reason ( Descartes with his final justification cogito ergo sum is the classic representative of this position); and empiricism , for which rational authority is achieved through sensory experience ("seeing is believing"). Bartley believes that intellectualism is too broad and empiricism too narrow.
Bartley opposed panrationalism as an alternative to pan-critical rationalism . In Pan-Critical Rationalism there is no rationality criterion for statements. In particular, Bartley opposed the assertion that a position is rational if it is true, probable, obvious, provable, empirical, verifiable, reasonable, or scientific, or if it meets any criterion. Rationality therefore concerns the question of how a statement is represented, not where it comes from, what it says and which criteria apply to it. Rationality is the willingness to keep positions open to criticism.
Individual evidence
- ^ William W. Bartley: Rationality, Criticism, and Logic (DOC; 277KB). Philosophia 11 : 1-2 (1982), Section XXI
literature
- William W. Bartley: Escape into engagement (Tübingen: Mohr, 1984).
- William W. Bartley: Rationality versus the theory of rationality . In Mario Bunge (Ed.): The Critical Approach to Science and Philosophy (The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964)