Sentences with phrase «human rationality in»

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

while the Aristotelian worldview conceiving the reality as existing within the purview of human rationality in a synthetic framework of form and essence made the rational epistemology possible.

Not exact matches

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

The inadequacy of the modern, secularist alternative to medieval disputationism (whether of the rejectionist or accommodationist type) is that it assumes that humans can transcend their traditions and simply reconstitute themselves in an ahistorical realm, one whose simplicity and transparent rationality will overcome the complexities of the past.

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

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.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

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.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

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.

«5 The full account of the human ousia in De Anima and in the Nichomachean Ethics is a dynamic one, in which the rationality of the agent shapes, by virtue of his choices and his actions, his own coming - to - be.

This enduring human core consists essentially in our gift of rationality.

The spiritual vision of modernity as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of human rationality; and the ethos of secularism as the basis of social ordering.

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.

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.

Prior to the rise of the great civilizations of antiquity, from the fourth millennium before Christ on, rationality played a minor role in human life.

As it says «the economists» most basic problem is anthropological», in other words the subject is based upon a narrow and restrictive concept of rationality which ignores the richness of human relations in favour of an obsolete utilitarianism.

Idealism recognizes the presence of evil in history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils of the freedom of the human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.

Today Roman Catholic philosophy and Protestant Modernism affirm rationality as a high value in human life.

Indeed, what is his serene confidence in the objective rationality of the world and the powers of human reason to discover it but an unrecognized expression of the belief that both forms of rationality are gifts of God, the Creator of both man and the world?

«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.»

Because the rational structure of the human mind finds its source in divine rationality, this Word illuminates the eye of the soul turning ordinary persons into prophets who can begin to read creation.

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 state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak within the concrete structures of human society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.

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

But does not this idea of the ultimate development and expression of technological rationality suggest a future in which human beings, as well as the natural environment, will be subject to complete «rational» control in the name of «efficiency,» the future of Brave New World if not of 1984?

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.

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.

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.

The roles of routines and automatisms in social life and the human psyche have most been relegated from the domain of politics, a field abstractly reserved to institutions and individuals that assumingly value the virtues of agency and rationality.

Given that humans are governed by rationality to a much less extent than previously considered and that our moral compass shifts and is determined by circumstances, policy - makers have a key role in harnessing the best or the worst feature in mankind.

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 decisionIn 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 decisionin Berlin are investigating the idea that evolution has endowed us with a set of mental shortcuts — tools for making quick decisions.

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.

«In political science literature, human rationality is primary.

And that is the human soul in the Nissan GT - R, a supercar that could never be created in a factory that only pursues 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.

However, it does seem to me that rationality has always hung on by a thread in human society.

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

Seems there is some intelligence / rationality threshold in the human species, though, when so many prefer independently provable as wrong in fact beliefs to understanding.