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XIII 53
Rationalism/Adorno: in the comparison with empiricism, it is essential that rationalism distinguishes the objectivity of reason from the inquiry into the possibility of knowledge.
Cf. >Empiricism/Adorno, >Empiricism, >Objectivity.
XIII 148
Rationalism/Adorno: in him there is a different problem of mediation than in idealism.
>Mediation.
In rationalism as well as in empiricism, the moments of thought and experience are essentially antithetically opposed.
>Thinking, >Experience.
In other words, mediation, in contrast to idealism, means mediation between two opposites, between the world of the spatial and the world of the mental, simply between the body and the soul.
>World/thinking.
The principles on the one hand of facts and on the other side of thought are simply thought to be independent of each other.
Therefore, rationalism assumes two substances,...
XIII 150
...the res cogitans, the thinking, and the res extensa, the extended.
>res cogitans, >Dualism.
Substances/rationalism/Descartes: he has attempted to explain the combination of these two substances with the assumption of an influxus physicus in the pineal gland.
>R. Descartes.
Substances/rationalism/Spinoza: the latter has assumed, instead of the different substances res extensa and res cogitans, only one, which is called God or nature. It is said to have innumerable attributes, that is to say phenomena, of which only two, namely, thinking and extension, are to be known to us. Their unity in the concept of nature is supposed to guarantee their unity. Spinoza deduces this from the thesis that the order of ideas and the order of things are identical.
>B. Spinoza.
XIII 151
Dualism/Substance/Mind/Body/Soul/Leibniz/Adorno: Leibniz tries to dissolve the dualism between res extensa and res cogitans by the infinitesimal calculus by setting a continuum that finally the dead matter proves to be a mere limit value of the body substance. At the same time, the thinking substance is already presented as a force center and already also as something individuated, as is the case with the concept of the monad.
>G.W. Leibniz.
XIII 153
Rationalism/Adorno: because it is based on reason and not on reason contents, it is essentially a method and not a theory of knowledge. On the other hand, it is always also metaphysics. His model of truth is always mathematics, which is certainly conceived as the organon of beings.
>Reason, >Content.
The rationalist thinkers are all characterized by the fact that in them moments of enlightenment connect with a certain traditionalist attitude towards theology.
>Pascal, >Enlightenment, >Theology.

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