This side might be termed the rationalist school of Christmas, the Hayek side, the conservative side, the realist side, even the masculine side.

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Philosophers, to prevent their works (or themselves) being burnt, were obliged to dedicate them to the proper authorities, even if the rationalist content was actually subversive.

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Rather than simply rejecting the creation myth on rationalist grounds, he finds in it symbols and metaphors which reveal how much surprising continuity there has been in human thinking about our origins.

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Moreover, a liberal such as this reformed ex-rationalist might also argue, albeit while in the throes of sleep deprivation and having suffered from multiple starvation-induced hallucinations, that gift-giving is a social good because it tends to redistribute income from the top to the bottom.

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At the core of the predominant current Western assessment lies the assumption that Gorbachev is, at a fundamental level, a Western rationalist in a modern mold.

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