Word: rationalist
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What gives the book flesh and weight, however, is not local color. It is the lecherous old rationalist Restif, whose expert portrait by Karmel, in turn, reflects more of the spirit of revolutionary Paris than any neutral reportage is likely to do. Karmel nudges the reader once or twice too often to see parallels between Restif's Revolution and those of modern times. But he has superbly proved his boast that "this is the book Restif did not write but should have." All it lacks is a modest degree of "truth in packaging...
...theoretical synthesis Jones undertakes is no simple task, and he carries it off impressively. Considering the rigid rationalist bias of the schools and of many educational psychologists (not uninfluenced by Bruner). Jones's contribution is unquestionably timely-not a moment too soon. And considering the adulatory blurbs on the book jacket from big names in psychology (Klein, Hall, Maslow, especially Bruner), the book promises to rival Bruner's in its impact on the educational and scientific communities. But, alas, there are other things to consider...
...Russell's thought that had primacy and gave weight to the workings of his large and sometimes foolish heart. Skeptic, agnostic and above all rationalist, he won his first fame as a mathematician, later as a philosopher by creatively applying mathematical methods to the linguistic mysteries of meaning. His most notable work, Principia Mathematica, written with the collaboration of his fellow mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, is a bench mark of 20th century philosophy. Paradoxically, though, Russell was less a man of the 20th century than the last of the eminent, eccentric Victorian rebels...
...Anglican clergy for interfering in Catholic affairs. Said the Dean of Prescot at Lancashire: "The recollection and commemoration of men and women who died for genuine religious convictions will hearten not only Catholics but many others." Oxford's A. L. Rowse, a leading Elizabethan scholar and a "nonsectarian rationalist." put forward historical arguments against canonization. "The fact is," he said, "that by its bull of 1570, the papacy declared war on Elizabeth I, not only by excommunicating her but deposing her, enjoining upon Catholics the duty of opposing her by every means...
...such a force was being created, and on the Continent its principal inventor was the despised and sickly rationalist, Cardinal Richelieu. What Richelieu devised at home was the modern European state. France was his working model, and as its most powerful Minister of government, he developed a strong, centralized, departmental administrative system that, to some extent, endures today. Abroad, his military and diplomatic machinations helped ensure the continued existence of a weakened, fragmented Europe, soon to be dominated by France. The Cardinal also devised, as Historian O'Connell relates in this clear and remarkably sympathetic study, a code...