Question

Rationalism is accepting facts as knowledge because they fit like the pieces of a puzzle? T or F

Answer 1

The correct answer is True

Rationalism was a very important philosophical current in Modernity. As a conception of philosophical knowledge, rationalism began to take shape during the Renaissance, but its early origins can go back to Greek philosophy, with the Platonic idealist theses and the conception of the principle of causality.

The main objective of rationalism is to theorize the way of knowing about human beings, not accepting any empirical element as a source of true knowledge. For the rationalists, all the ideas we have originate from pure rationality, which also imposes an innate conception, that is, that the ideas have innate origins in the human being, being born with us in our intellect and being used and discovered by the people who they make better use of reason. Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are considered rationalist philosophers.