Rationalism is the school that scorns sensory perception and constructs intellectual castles in the air. Empiricism is the school that scorns abstractions and demands that men hold their minds down to the animal level of unconceptualized, unintegrated sensing. Rationalism ultimately degenerates into mysticism, as in its ancient father: Plato. Empiricism ultimately degenerates into skepticism, as in its modern father: Hume.
