Sentences with phrase «human rationality at»

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.

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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.

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.

All recognize in each human some element that is not subject to the otherwise universal flux; it is stable, enduring, and important, at least during the brief season of our rationality.

At Regensburg he speaks of the holistic, formal, «intrinsic rationality» of the object of human knowing, «the mathematical structure of matter», as a «presupposition]».

Or are they, at least to some degree, the product of human rationality, initiative and choice?

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 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.

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.