Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
New Books in Politics and Polemics
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The Enlightenment and Rationalism
Our current methods of intellectual and scientific inquiry all date from the Enlightenment, he says. "Kant is a rationalist" who believes that Newton's laws of motion are not real science because it wasn't based on experience instead of pure reason. The Scots were taking English common law empiricism, which is based on trial and error to develop social sciences such as sociology or psychology.
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