In order to accurately understand how Kant bridged the gap between the rationalist method of understanding and knowledge and the empiricists, you must first separate and define the two. The rationalist point of view stemmed from Plato, and was acclaimed by many other great philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. ... The Empiricist point of view claims knowledge depends on sense experience. ... From the Empiricist point of view we gather practically justified beliefs of things in themselves. ... From ethics, another understanding is created. ...

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Nietzsche's view of art is, at the same time, the most sublime and metaphysical. Art may well be said to be the bridge between Man and the superhuman, the artist, the bridge to perfection and eternity. ... After a brief discussion of Wagner, Nietzsche concludes that we can learn little about the meaning of ascetic ideals from artists, because they always lean on the authority of some prior philosophy, morality, or religion. ... From a visitor to a resident of Brazil, Bishop's affection toward its land and people is expressed through her art and poetry. ...

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He also spends a good amount of time discussing the key criticisms that Hegel has of Kant and Walshs views of these critiques. ... In fact, Hegels ethical thoughts were continuously caught up in the views of Kant. ... The fact that an act proceeds from conscience is not a sufficient condition of its being right. ... In a way he over compensated from Kants system. ... Hegel does a better job of requiring that moral people must follow laws and fulfill contract agreements, yet still does nothing in the way of bridging the morality gap. ...

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Justin charges, in his First Apology, that the pagan and Greco-Roman gods are in fact demons who have designs to distract man from truth and reason. ... Justin was the first Christian thinker to build a bridge between the Christian faith and pagan philosophy. ... Man has no need to question what God and Christ have handed down for his benefit, and by questioning revelation, or by applying philosophy to it, one is lead down into heretical views. ... Tertullian believes that reason will pull us away from God, and that faith alone is what allows a belief and a trust in god. ... For Justin, living...

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It is a consciousness-raising enterprise, alerting us from grossest injustice to subtlest nuance.."... However there exists a bridge that connects the two tradtions and represents the mid-point within the ethical continuim. ... A situational ethicist, viewing the world through sensibility would argue that the general principles for viewing ethical points of view are grounded in human experience and the only absolute truth is change itself. ... Ayres criteria , from the absolute which can be derived from the emperical laws, to make moral decissions. ... The rights of the fetus, from absolute tr...

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Another quote from his popular essay, "Self-Reliance,"" supports this. ... Rousseau's views at this point seem to be the polar opposite of Darwin's survival of the fittest theory. ... Rousseau believed Emile was the outline of the possible bridge between the particular will and the general will. ... He believed that amoure de soi was the natural inclination of self-love and self-esteem, opposed to amour propre, man's definition of self-esteem, solely based off views of other men. ... His view however is flawed in its complexity, there are loopholes and rules that...

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Another quote from his popular essay, "Self-Reliance,"" supports this. ... Rousseau's views at this point seem to be the polar opposite of Darwin's survival of the fittest theory. ... Rousseau believed Emile was the outline of the possible bridge between the particular will and the general will. ... He believed that amoure de soi was the natural inclination of self-love and self-esteem, opposed to amour propre, man's definition of self-esteem, solely based off views of other men. ... His view however is flawed in its complexity, there are loopholes and rules that...

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Scholars in many countries found it increasingly difficult to bridge the gulf between natural and supernatural, to reconcile natural law and divine providence, and to balance moral philosophy and spiritual virtue. ... They drained mystery and the supernatural from Christianity. ... The central purpose of the work was to secularize learning and, above all other things, to refute what the authors felt were dangerous carry-overs from the Middle Ages. ... Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had in common only a revolt again...

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Both reflect the autonomy of the modern subject, who distances himself from both 'higher' imposed metaphysical values and from those of nature. ... The attention for the metaphysical dimension of human life is from now on based on a longing for knowing the truth of an invisible Creator. ... Cusanus follows not only Ockham's views on epistemology and creation, but emphasises also the strength of the human intellect and the autonomy of human intellect and will. ... The philosophical mainstream in modern times clears the way for a human subject, who liberates itself from any na...

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