Sentences with phrase «rational place in society»

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Because in a rational thinking society, irrationality must be put in its place — at the very bottom of the pile with the other fairy tales.

For each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling before it, is compelled... to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality, and represent them as the only rational, universally valid ones.

In his 1972 best - seller, The Psychology of Consciousness, Stanford University psychologist Robert Ornstein argued that Western society places too great an emphasis on rational, left - brain thinking and not enough on intuitive, right - brain thinking.

If you are at all interested in paths to a more rational human relationship with wildfire at all scales, there's no better starting place than a remarkable collection of papers on «The Interaction of Fire and Mankind» published in June in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (yes, arguably the clunkiest journal name ever).