Sentences with phrase «on practical reasons»

My decision was not based on practical reasoning; I just discovered as a freshman in college that... [more]

Prudence: Aristotelian perspectives on practical reason.

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One of the most enduring and well - known embodiments of Cathy's convictions is Chick - fil - A's «Closed - on - Sunday» policy, which requires every restaurant to only operate six days a week for practical and spiritual reasons.

Instead, the main reason bitcoin didn't catch on is because it's just not practical.

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.

When dairy farmer John Bocock decided to install solar panels on his family's farm northwest of Edmonton instead of leasing a bigger transformer, his reasons were practical.

These days, you can read the transcript of these events or even watch it on YouTube, so there is less of a practical reason to attend the actual event.

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.

It wasn't the practical reasons, like lower cost of living, great — and cheap — medical care, and friendly people, that convinced Dave Scott to move to San Ramón, a town on the western edge of Costa Rica's Central Valley region.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, who served under the Obama administration, told CNN's Tapper on Sunday he believes Kelly should stay on, though seemingly for reasons more practical than moral.

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.

The reason is that the idiom «tends to perpetuate the conventional dichotomy between so - called «theoretical» («wissenschaftlich,» «academic») and «practical» disciplines, and at the same time to promote a false impression of agreement on terms» (63).

The question may be either intellectual (simply the desire to know) or practical (for the sake of being able to do something better or more efficiently) Both would seem appropriate reasons for research on the churches and mental health.

For example, people reading this exchange with a view to assessing the validity of Madden's criticisms of my position and the soundness of my rebuttal are acting on one of practical reason's per se nota first principles» namely, that intellectual understanding of matters such as those under discussion is something worth having and expending time and effort to achieve.

But even without religious beliefs, we'd still not all agree on things like that, so here's a more practical reason to argue against religion:

Rose grants that the New Testament is not an introduction to speculative reason, but he thinks Taylor misreads its emphasis on «practical life» as a critique of the quest for knowledge of God as such.

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).

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 totalization.

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.

This perfectly definite practical test of the pretensions of philosophy to found religion on universal reason simplifies my procedure today.

A focus on his accounts of action and practical reason reveals that his fundamental perspective has been remarkably consistent.

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.»

Plus the church plants that are reviving the Anglican church, practical tips on rediscovering family worship and 3 reasons from Justin on why God allows suffering.

Kim concludes this reflection on our need for the intentional framework with the Kantian assertion that «our need for it arises out of the demands of practical reason, not those of theoretical reason» (SM 215).

He developed a practical solution, one that appeared not to be based on any piece of knowledge, and one that required that he believe what almost none of his contemporaries (except, possibly, his father) believed: that beliefs are founded largely on individual actions and interests rather than on evidence, reason, or worldviews.

Despite Hall's appeal to the Whiteheadian separation of «practical» and «speculative» reason, 11 I think that on a more fundamental level Whitehead too regards knowing (or more broadly the relation of any actual occasion to its «environment») as an active process in which the aim of the subject at its own attainment of value partially determines how it will respond to the objects of which it is aware.

This is one reason that many Jewish Rabbi's spend their entire life studying the Law and the Talmud, which is kind - of like a practical commentary on the Law, and pretty much ignore the writings and the prophets.

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrativeby alasdair macintyrecambridge, 332 pages, $ 49.99 I The dialogues of Plato provide the first sustained demonstration both of the depth and difficulty of philosophy, and of the fact that the beginnings of the....

Even if you're not concerned about paint fumes, there are plenty of other practical reasons to pass on painting the nursery while pregnant.

If you are desperate for sleep or you worry that your baby may have a sleep problem (if it's not a problem to you, it's not a problem), reach out and ask for practical support so you can catch up on sleep (you aren't imposing, most people love to be involved with a baby), look for a health professional who will address reasons for your baby's wakefulness such as feeding or medical issues and guide you to make changes, gradually with love.

So instead we've also done some individual plate waste studies, but [for practical reasons] we do it on only a sub-sample of the population.

McKay, Pinky 100 WAYS TO CALM CRYING Lothian, 2002 This unique book focuses on the reasons babies cry while offering parents practical advice on soothing baby and coping themselves.

For this reason, many hospitals have specific staff and programs available to help parents cope with both the practical problems and the emotional issues brought on by the intensity and complexity of the situation.

First let's take a look at the definition of the word Realpolitik: Politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives Under that definition there are two possible reasons: Avoiding a situation where European soldiers / border guards shoot unarmed men, women and children Helping prevent further destabilization...

But there are other more practical reasons to resist the push to the right on immigration.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the Commission on Assisted Dying's call to reform the law to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults as set out in its report, which is considered, detailed and recommends a change in the law for practical, ethical and legal reasons.

Adam Lisberg, a spokesman for the MTA, told the Observer last week the authority is «full speed ahead» on the Second Avenue subway, and made the decision for practical and not financial reasons.

In practical terms it is relatively demanding to ask the voter to express a reasoned preferential choice when there may be more than ten candidates on the ballot paper.

And while the council covers the broader North Country region for many practical reasons, the first Regional Council meeting on August 5th included two things of relevance to this topic:

For practical reasons, the technique is usually conducted on samples comprising thousands to millions of cells.

«For trainers who don't have time to prepare wholefood meals on the run or immediately after exercise, a protein shake may be preferred for practical as well as performance reasons,» says Fighting Fit PT Sara Kratz.

Did you know that the practical reason for this placement of saffron is to act on the blood tissue of the body (called rakta dhatu) in a way that prevents and treat headaches?

I would surmise that one reason is that most of the information we receive on the gut microflora - systemic health relationship is either highly technical, highly academic or both, with little or no emphasis on practical, clinical applications.

NOTE: Some accessories may technically fit on one type of rack, yet may not be recommended for safety or practical reasons (e.g. band pegs don't make sense on a squat stand).

The second reason was a bit more practical, it takes skill to put on and take off a romper if you don't know all the tricks.

I wear more heels than flats as I always associated flats with comfort and practical reasons: in winter on icy paths, in summer when it is hot or when I am travelling.

«The practical reason for different shows is that the audiences are different — there are men's shops and women's shops, men's buyers and women's buyers, men's press and women's press and so on,» Smith explains.