Sentences with phrase «for human rationality»

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Amazing, such rationality presented by you... oh wait, not really rational to poke fun at your human being unless your own self esteem is so low that the only means to feel superior to your fellow human being is to belittle them for their beliefs... kinda like what the religious do to you.

But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do science «goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

Arguments that ground our dignity as humans in our capacities exclude those human beings who have either never possessed such rationality, or who have lost it (for example, through degenerative conditions) and have no chance to acquire it again.

«Intellectual intuition» and «reason» are strictly separated, and only human capacities for critical, disciplined, orderly problem solving in the framework of research agendas, or other situations approximating such research agendas, count as «rationality.»

The Father has sown seeds of the Word into the fabric of human rationality, which, when enkindled by the muse of the Spirit, causes persons to participate in the praise of creation for its Creator.

The primary characteristics of any self - creative beings — and we must suppose that this holds pre-eminently for human beings — are freedom, transience, and novel purpose... The denial of rationality as the primary character of experience involves the denial of principles as external sources of order and thus entails the consequence that each aesthetic event will constitute its own source of order and novelty.

But he seemingly fails to draw the consequence that Dewey, for example, would have drawn: that «technological rationality,» as a modality of human thought, can not itself be fully understood without recourse to aesthetic and valuational concepts.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

For example, if man were defined as essentially a rational animal, rationality could not admit of degrees, and «more» of it would not constitute a norm or an ideal, without entailing that some human beings are less «human» than others.

If only East and West could have a genuine «meeting,» he believed, more would be made in the West of this side of things while the East might come to appreciate that there is also something to be said for rationality and its human functioning.

In an attempt to inject some realism into the study of rationality, Gerd Gigerenzer and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin are investigating the idea that evolution has endowed us with a set of mental shortcuts — tools for making quick decisions.

«If future research confirms that an index of species» abundance can be derived from naked DNA extracted from water,» says Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment, «it could easily improve the rationality with which fish quotas are set, and the quality and reliability of their monitoring around the world.»

«If we really want to get through to young people, we need to take these insights into account when designing interventions,» says coauthor Ralph Hertwig, Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

They are simply driven to seek new experiences and try out new things,» says lead author Wouter van den Bos, researcher in the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

There is no similar agreement about how our minds work: the economist assumes that rational behavior is dominant, for example, while a psychologist questions what fraction of human behavior is rational, and a biologist may ask whether rationality is even a useful concept, or merely an evolved illusion.

For Burke or Kant, it meant the experience of human limits, notably the limits of rationality.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.