Neorationalism

A modern revival of extreme rationalist philosophy which posits that reason and rationality are the only tools capable of determining objective reality. It explicitly devalues empirical observation, intuition, and embodied experience as unreliable or secondary. Reality is what can be deduced, not what can be sensed.

Neorationalism Example: An online community that tries to deduce the principles of a perfect society entirely from first philosophical principles and game theory, dismissing historical examples and sociological data as “corrupted” evidence. They believe pure reason, from an armchair, can blueprint reality.

by Abzugal February 8, 2026