Political Science · Political Theory
The view that the sources of knowledge lie beyond sense experience and are transcendental in nature is called?
AEmpiricism
BRationalism ✓ Correct
CExistentialism
DConsequentialism
Correct answer: (B) Rationalism — The view that knowledge comes from reason beyond sense experience is called rationalism.
Explanation
★The view that knowledge comes from reason beyond sense experience is called rationalism.
★Rationalists hold that the mind can reach truths by reason alone, independent of the senses.
★Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz are the classic rationalist philosophers.
★Empiricism is the opposite, holding that all knowledge comes only from sense experience.
★Locke, Berkeley and Hume are the leading empiricists in that tradition.
★Existentialism is about human freedom and the meaning of existence, not the source of knowledge.
★Consequentialism is an ethical doctrine about judging acts by results, unrelated to this question.
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