Titlebook: Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism; Gene Callahan,Kenneth B. McIntyre Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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Burke on Rationalism, Prudence and Reason of State,ters, like Priestley and Price, is not a form of irrational reactionary dogmatism. In this sense the chapter criticizes the picture painted of Burke by Strauss and others, and presents him rather as an enlightened and rational critic of dogmatic rationalism as a political ideology. Relying on such d

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Alexis de Tocqueville and the Uneasy Friendship Between Reason and Freedom,l science finds that Enlightenment political science, which aims at wholesale social engineering, is actually an unscientific and partial ideology. Rationalism espoused by French philosophes and physiocrats depends on assuming ever more control over people’s lives, destroying politics properly so-ca