合ごう理り主しゅ義ぎ

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Meanings

Refers to the philosophical stance that reason is the primary source of knowledge, or a general attitude of valuing logic and efficiency over emotion or tradition.

彼かれは合ごう理り主しゅ義ぎの立たち場ばからその問もん題だいを分ぶん析せきした。
He analyzed the problem from a rationalist standpoint.
合ごう理り主しゅ義ぎは感かん情じょうよりも論ろん理りを重じゅう視しする。
Rationalism values logic over emotion.

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Expressions

近きん代だい合ごう理り主しゅ義ぎmodern rationalism

Kanji

合fit, suit, join
理logic, arrangement, reason
主lord, chief, master
義righteousness, justice, morality

Related words

理り性せい主しゅ義ぎ
Often used interchangeably with 合理主義, but 理性主義 can emphasize the faculty of reason itself, while 合理主義 is more commonly used for the broader philosophical movement or a practical rational attitude.
経けい験けん主しゅ義ぎ
Empiricism, the contrasting philosophical view that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience.

Word family

合ごう理り主しゅ義ぎ哲てつ学がく
rationalistic philosophy

Built from

合ごう理り+主しゅ義ぎ

Etymology

Compound of 合理 (rational, logical) and 主義 (principle, -ism). The term was coined in the Meiji period as a translation of Western philosophical 'rationalism'.