Sentences with phrase «in practical reason»

After writing that article, since I am a philosopher interested in practical reason and, in any case, a student of human nature, I wondered what could have made these invitations seem like a good idea to someone.

For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training in practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but challenge the character of modern moral practice and theory.

Taylor finds the solution not in the rules of modernity or the rules of Christian orthodoxy but in practical reasoning that seeks to evaluate «forms of life» from within broadly shared «conceptions of the good.»

Those who do develop a conception of the final good, of the good to be achieved in a life as a whole, often avoid mistakes in practical reasoning and choice, but not even they are immune from disaster striking or from unforeseen future contingencies forcing them to radically alter their plans.

Not exact matches

But while we're all (rightfully) bombarded with practical reasons to look after our bodies in service of our businesses, perhaps there's a more intellectual reason to hit the gym (or the track or trail).

But self - protection is a very important thing for nations and... But I just don't like to see it... I was not a big fan of going to war and in Iraq or Afghanistan for several reasons, several practical reasons.

He added: «I was not a big fan of going to war in Iraq or Afghanistan, for several reasons, several practical reasons.

Then zero in on those manufacturing and marketing hot spots that are most attractive to you for other practical reasons.

While in the UK's Guardian newspaper Dean Burnett has also thrown cold water on the idea for similarly practical reasons.

But for some reason, amid all this chatter about how to be more persuasive, one simple, practical, and well - tested technique had largely got lost in the shuffle.

He went on to say that in his opinion «Canadians culturally are quite a bit more utilitarian, more conservative, more practical in some ways [than Americans]» which he points to as being the main reason why initial interactions with Tilt by Canadian users have been less robust than Tilt's experience with American users of the platform.

That's one reason I definitely wouldn't want to be short the stock and why, in terms of practical stock - market speculation (my primary source of income), I have no desire to get involved.

While some speculators have tried to cash in on bitcoin's recent price surges, for many Nigerians cryptocurrencies have proven popular for practical reasons.

Its very similar to how Muslim beliefs override reason and practical thinking in the middle east where most of us in America call them crazy for things they do based on their religion.

But, even in the fundamental thinkers of high modernity, hints can be found that knowledge requires God: Descartes uses God in the Meditations in order to escape from the interiority where the cogito has stranded him; Kant uses God as a postulate of pure practical reason in order to hold on to the possibility of morality.

Furthermore, from a practical standpoint, I'm not going to invest time, energy, and money in God without at least some objective reason to believe he exists.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etcIn this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etcin the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etcin male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etcin walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etcin symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

In our materialistic times, man is identified as homo faber — which means that it is his use of tools, his utilization of wood and stone, that differentiates him from the animals; that it is his practical reason, his doing, that marks him as man.

A primary concern of SR, therefore, is practical: to create space in which the «deep reasonings» of a community can be made more public than they are at present.

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

This modern scientific revolution — together with its practical consequences in the marvels of the machine age — has been a triumph of reason, probably the major one in all history measured by brilliance and by transforming power.

His tireless efforts to revive a Lincolnian understanding of the American proposition are not a mere exercise in theoretical reasoning, but an eminently practical endeavor that has helped to shape pro-life litigation and legislation.

Although Thomas Groome in his widely celebrated Christian Religious Education (Harper & Row, 1980) does not actually use the term, he does in fact present a powerful practical theology of Christian education that constitutes the major reason for the book's success.

In an effort to help establish such a method, I have introduced the idea of levels of practical moral reason.

I have argued that practical theology can and should be the center of theological studies (both in the seminary and the university) and that this practical theology needs a clear understanding of the nature of practical moral thinking (practical reason).

The reason why Religion does not make sense for practical life use is that it is requires faith and «faith» is the belief in the unknown.

For both spiritual and practical reasons, the environment should fall within the mission field of Christian men in the twenty - first century.

Practical reason is bound by factors in the world, looking for efficient methods to grasp them.

In The Function of Reason, Whitehead makes a distinction between practical and speculative reason, the reason of the foxes and the reason of the gods (FR 10 Reason, Whitehead makes a distinction between practical and speculative reason, the reason of the foxes and the reason of the gods (FR 10 reason, the reason of the foxes and the reason of the gods (FR 10 reason of the foxes and the reason of the gods (FR 10 reason of the gods (FR 10 - 11).

This theoretical or speculative reason, anarchist in its search for transcending the existing methods to deal with reality, is itself bound to method: even in transcending (practical) methods, reason is bound by a (speculative) method.

Goodman argues that human reason, unaided by special revelation, can teach us much about God» including a basic understanding of what He requires of us in our practical conduct.

I'm afraid I'm with Willard Quine in taking a dim view of thought experiments that for both theoretical and practical reasons seem utterly fantastical.

As Wayne Meeks has argued, «This letter's most comprehensive purpose is the shaping of a Christian phronesis, a practical moral reasoning that is «conformed to Christ's death» in hope of his resurrection.»

[1] Nicholas Reseller, Pascal's Wager — a study of practical reasoning in philosophical theology (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985).

There was a time when SOME of these «rules» may have been practical or had a logical reason for them in that time period (for example, the rules against eating certain animals could easily be explained by diseases that were not understood then that were commonly acquired by people that ate them.)

In fact, it is the consideration of evil which constrains us to make this new move; now, with the consideration of evil, it is the very question, of freedom, of the real freedom evoked by the postulates of the Critique of Practical Reason, which returns; the problematic of evil requires us to tie, more directly than we have so far been able to do, the actual reality of freedom to the regeneration which is the very content of hope.

In this idea of an antinomy of practical reason I see a second receptive structure for a critique of religion, applied more properly to its instinctual aspects, as in FreuIn this idea of an antinomy of practical reason I see a second receptive structure for a critique of religion, applied more properly to its instinctual aspects, as in Freuin Freud.

That goal is the expression, on the level of duty, of the demand, the claim — the Verlangen — which constitutes pure reason in its speculative and practical use; reason «demands the absolute totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing» (beginning of the Dialectic of the Critique of Practical Rereason in its speculative and practical use; reason «demands the absolute totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing» (beginning of the Dialectic of the Critique of Practicalpractical use; reason «demands the absolute totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing» (beginning of the Dialectic of the Critique of Practical Rereason «demands the absolute totality of conditions for a given conditioned thing» (beginning of the Dialectic of the Critique of PracticalPractical ReasonReason).

This status would be scandalous if one had not previously established the status of practical reason itself in its dialectical part.

In this sense, true evil appears only in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalizatioIn this sense, true evil appears only in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalizatioin the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalizatioin the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalization.

Thus is posed in radical terms the question of the real causality of our freedom, the very same freedom which the Practical Reason postulated at the end of its Dialectic.

Now this totality is not given but demanded; it can not be given, not only because the critique of the transcendental illusion accompanies it without fail, but because practical reason, in its dialectic, institutes a new antinomy; what it demands, in fact, is that happiness be added to morality; it thus requires to be added to the object of its aim, that this object may be whole, what it excluded from its principles, that they might be pure.

One might be surprised that freedom is postulated by the dialectic when it is already implied by duty and has been formulated as autonomy in the framework of the Analytic of the Critique of Practical Reason.

Insofar as it is practical, reason demands completeness; but it believes in the mode of expectation, of hope, in the existence of an order where the completeness can be actual.

The very expression «postulate» should not mislead us; it expresses, on the properly epistemological level and in the language of modality, the «hypothetical» character of the existential belief involved in the demand for completion, for totality, which constitutes practical reason in its essential purity.

Given his early Marxism as well as the influence of Collingwood and Wittgenstein, it should not be surprising that MacIntyre grew to find in Aristotle's account of the virtues and practical reason an understanding of the conditions necessary for our actions to be intelligible.

Like the general congregations, the synod sessions are always closed to the public and the media for practical reasons: Bishops speak openly about political and religious persecution in parts of the world, for example.

Taking a page out of the First Things playbook, Jackson urges Muslim Americans to «articulate the practical benefits of the rules of Islamic law in terms that gain them recognition by society at large,» something that can be done by drawing on the Islamic tradition of practical reasoning that has family resemblances to the Catholic use of natural law and Protestant analysis of «common grace.»

One way to state the mistake at the root of Kim's dead end is in terms of the conflict, as he portrayed it, between practical and theoretical reason.

Ironically, neither can it be regarded as a «noumenal reality» and apprehended under The Critique of Practical Reason, because in his analysis of the antinomies of reason, Kant postulates that the thinking self is an immortalReason, because in his analysis of the antinomies of reason, Kant postulates that the thinking self is an immortalreason, Kant postulates that the thinking self is an immortal soul.