Sentences with phrase «human rationality»

It posits human rationality in ways that make us robots, both individually and collectively.

It is a three - hundred - year attempt to demolish medieval (especially Catholic) claims to authority, and to substitute a structure of science and ethics based solely on human rationality.

Over the next decade, a decade as notable for its supreme faith in human rationality as for its dark anxieties about mankind's survival, Nash proved himself, in the words of the eminent geometer Mikhail Gromov, «the most remarkable mathematician of the second half of the century.»

Modernity was the effort to destroy the claims of the medieval church to authority in order to put its own conceptions of human rationality at the center of human thought.

It is also not accurate, although there are also some critics who for their own reasons make that claim, that this view includes any disrespect for human rationality, for the natural knowledge which we share with our unbelieving neighbors, or for the appropriateness of meaning systems not derived only from the gospel.

It is urgent, therefore, to rediscover in a new way human rationality open to the light of the divine «Logos» and to its perfect revelation that is Jesus Christ, Son of God made man.

It was through this Logos theology, as refined by Augustine, that Nash claimed a connection between human rationality, a rational world, and God.

Nevertheless, no one today can regard it as the product of a perfectly neutral and universal human rationality.

I love how human rationality worshippers base their entire judgment of existence upon rationality's confirmation that certain natural laws operate according to principles it can understand.

They are each wrong in ignoring the unity forming and constructive relationality which human rationality discovers at the heart of everything.

Hence material reality is intelligible even as its intelligibilitytranscends human rationality.

Judged by human rationality alone, he could not and on that basis some came up with answers calculated to appeal to inquiring worldlings.

Human rationality gradually creates a web of thought, symbolized by the vast communications network that covers the earth, which Teilhard called the noosphere.

Western philosophers — most notably Immanuel Kant — have replaced the deity with «universal reason», so that human rationality becomes the source of unconditional moral laws.

The continuing willful blindness of political advocates is less worriesome, but no less a signature of the seduction inner certitude exerts against human rationality.

Perhaps, though definitions based on intent are always weak, the best definition nonetheless involves intent: it is premodern to seek beyond rational knowledge for God; it is modern to desire to hold knowledge in the structures of human rationality (with or without God); it is postmodern to see the impossibility of such knowledge.

Your article on human rationality (26 May, p 32) asks: «Have you ever, against your better judgement, nurtured a belief...

Believing in human rationality as your god is like believing in Zippy the Pinhead.

Modernity sought to secure knowledge in the structure of human rationality, and relegated God to the «gaps» or denied Him all together.

The benefit of using rationality to come to moral conclusions is that human rationality can be used to come to better moral conclusions.

Human rationality is also evident in the very fact of economic organization.

In his Word of God and Mind of Man, Nash argued for a correspondence between the divine mind and human minds on the basis of innate ideas that were part of the structure of human rationality.

But the description of man as a rational or intellectual animal, familiar in the Middle Ages, is dangerous unless full recognition is also given to the feeling - tones which are as much a part of human existence as is human rationality.

Subjecting dictation of ALL THAT IS to human rationality (quickly: consider the «status» of humans on earth relative to the rest of the universe) is, well, nuts.

In short, from our perspective, it depended on an extremely parochial and naively optimistic view of American society and of the power of human rationality.

It is not necessarily according to reason or human rationality.

This power of selective abstraction of form is the very essence of human rationality.

Tolkien and Eliot paint a picture of the artist as co-creator with God whose Word indwells creation and the structure of human 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.

I think often times we become so consumed with knowledge and what seems «rational,» that we overlook that God is beyond logic and human rationality.

In all academic endeavors it would promote an unfettered pursuit of truth (after all, truth is of God) while maintaining that truth is not limited to human rationality, mathematical computations or empirical findings.

And Zippy the Pinhead, god of human rationality!

Some authors speak of modem «covert myths» of inevitable progress, human rationality, and utopia through technology.22 We will be mainly concerned, however, with traditional religious myths.

Richard Thaler has won this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the limits to human rationality and how to subtly influence people's behaviour

«In political science literature, human rationality is primary.

Good, because you feel normal, and bad, because you see the slow decline of human rationality.

Cultural cognition is no shortcut; it is an integral component in the machinery of human rationality.

I believe instead that cultural cognition is intrinsic, even essential, to human rationality.

This is post no. 2 on the question «Is cultural cognition a bias,» to which the answer is, «nope — it's not even a heuristic; it's an integral component of human rationality.»