Sentences with phrase «on human rationality»

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

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.

Not exact matches

Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others.

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.

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.»

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.

Yet their insight may lead us to arrogance, if we make the worth of a human being entirely dependent on 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.

Yet the procedures all too often rely on the rationality of the human mind — which can easily be derailed.

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.

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.»