In general, what are the basic differences between empiricism and rationalism? Include in your answer a distinction between a passive and an active mind.
The major differences between empiricism and rationalism can be listed below in the tabulated form are as follows:-
| Empiricism | Rationa lism |
| 1. In empiricism, memory, association, experience and hedonism determines about the thinking and acting of a person by the involvement of morality conditions. | 1. In rationalism, presence of rational conditions or thoughts is more desirable than the pre-existing reasons and situations. |
| 2. It greatly focuses on induction behavior. | 2. It greatly focuses on deduction behavior. |
| 3. In this, a mind was postulated that was acting as a passive phenomenon. | 3. In this, it focuses on the importance of sensory information for the purpose of truth and knowledge. |
| 4. It involves the concept of sensory information and passive mind that functions according to mechanistic laws. | 4. It involves the concept of innate structures, principles and active mind that transforms according to sensory information. |
Passive mind refers to the act of mind that relies on sensory information and virtual ideas in a better mechanical and automatic way. It tends to describe by the empiricists type of philosophers. Active mind refers to the act of mind that involves sensory information that leads to the meaningful situations other than the one’s own body mind and thoughts. It tends to described by the rationalists type of philosophers.