Examples of using Rational knowledge in English and their translations into Ukrainian
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Rational knowledge of God is impossible.
Philosophy is a system of philosophical knowledge or rational knowledge from concepts.
Anyone who thinks that rational knowledge need not be derived from perceptualknowledge is an idealist.
From the personalist point of view the question of the laws ofsocial development cannot be answered by rational knowledge.
An idea, therefore, is a mental image of an object or the rational knowledge generated by the natural conditions of the understanding.
Rational knowledge shows people's reflective ability, his ability to discuss the action with the aim of taking a decision or another.
Pope John Paul II emphasized in his encyclical"Fides et ratio"(«Faith and reason")the deep connection between faith and rational knowledge.
Rational knowledge shows the reflexive capacity of people, their ability to deliberate on action with the aim of making a decision or a different one.
We find a clear recognition and formulation of this theory of rational knowledge almost immediately after the practice of critical discussion had begun.
There first comes the age of Greek philosophy, the so-called"Greek miracle," a sort of Golden Age of human thought,that witnessed the quiet and undisturbed triumph of pure rational knowledge.
But it is an intellectual understanding and rational knowledge by nature is an obstacle to the spirit and truth, for all judges in the affirmative or negative.
The first, which has been stated before but should be repeated here,is the dependence of rational knowledge upon perceptual knowledge. .
The only way tosolve this problem completely is to redirect rational knowledge to social practice, apply theory to practice and see whether it can achieve the objectives one has in mind.
One fundamental problem of such an attempt consists in the fact that in forgetting the doctrine of original sin there arises a naive confidence in reason thatdoes not perceive the actual complexity of rational knowledge in the ethical field.
Folk architecture is a branch of culture that combines rational knowledge and skills in the field of construction, as well as the traditions and beliefs of the people associated with housing and human settlement.
To think that knowledge can stop at the lower,perceptual stage and that perceptual knowledge alone is reliable while rational knowledge is not, would be to repeat the historical error of“empiricism”.
Similarly,'you may say of the objects of rational knowledge that not only do they owe it to the Good that they can be known, but their reality and even their essence flows from it; although the Good is not itself an essence but transcends even essences in dignity and power.'.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the new theory," remarked C.Pearce,"was the recognition of the existence of an inseparable link between rational knowledge and a rational goal-precisely this last consideration dictated the choice of the name" pragmatism".
He wanted to obtain purely rational knowledge, and not merely opinion; and since pure knowledge of sensible things could not be obtained, he insisted on obtaining at least such pure knowledge as was in some way related, and applicable, to sensible things.[…].
There are also signs of a resurgence of fideism,which fails to recognize the importance of rational knowledge and philosophical discourse for the understanding of faith, indeed for the very possibility of belief in God….
Plato distinguishes sharply, in the fields of mathematics, acoustics, and astronomy, between mere(delusive) opinion which is tainted by experience, and which cannot reach exactness, and is altogether on a low level,and pure rational knowledge, which is free from sensual experience and exact.
The active role of knowledge is expressednot only in the active leap from sensory to rational knowledge, but, and what is even more important, in the leap from rational knowledge to revolutionary practice….
We see from this that Plato agrees with Antiphon[21] in at least one point, namely in assuming that the opposition between nature and convention or art corresponds to that between truth and falsehood, between reality and appearance, between primary or original and secondary or man-made things,and to that between the objects of rational knowledge and those of delusive opinion.
The active function of knowledge manifests itselfnot only in the active leap from perceptual to rational knowledge, but- and this is more important- it must manifest itself in the leap from rational knowledge to revolutionary practice.
It compensates for the reverses and frustrations real life inflicts on us, and because of it we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings, principally those of us who generate more doubts than certainties and confess our perplexity before subjects like transcendence, individual and collective destiny, the soul,the sense or senselessness of history, the to and fro of rational knowledge.
Against the temptations of fideism, however, it was necessary to stress the unity of truth andthus the positive contribution which rational knowledge can and must make to faith's knowledge:"Even if faith is superior to reason there can never be a true divergence between faith and reason, since the same God who reveals the mysteries and bestows the gift of faith has also placed in the human spirit the light of reason.
If we are to believe Aristotle's report(outlined in the last chapter), then the theory of Forms or Ideas was originally introduced in order to meet a methodological demand,the demand for pure or rational knowledge which is impossible in the case of sensible things in flux.