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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © 1960 by The University of Notre Dame
- ISSN
- 0065-8995
- eISSN
- 2049-6494
- DOI
- 10.1093/ajj/5.1.104
- Publisher site
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Abstract
NOTES CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE QUIXOTIC Rationalism may be taken to refer to the belief that logical processes are relevant in some discoverable way to the problems of life; that man is a rational creature able to discover the relevancies between logic and life; that man is able to know what actions are in his own and society's best interest; and that man is able to realize these best interests through the use of reason in life situations. Rational- ism holds that man is somehow able to submit the world to the rule of reason. Scientific technology and constitutionalism represent two prominent areas of rationalist effort. Scientific technology refers to a special class of rationalist efforts by man to control his material environment. Constitutionalism refers to a special class of rationalist efforts by man to control his social environment. Only a few cultures have produced rationalism. But almost every culture which has become highly articulated has produced some form of rationalism. No previous rationalism, however, has approached the degree of refinement and extensive application that has been known in Western culture between the seventeenth and the twentieth century. As twentieth century Western culture enters the stage of full-scale bureaucratization, rationalized
Journal
American Journal of Jurisprudence – Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1960