I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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