irrationalism
English
Etymology
irrational + -ism
Noun
irrationalism (countable and uncountable, plural irrationalisms)
- A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
- 1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351:
- Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense iwth as he imagines he has no philosophy or metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.
Translations
philosophical movement
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