Sentences with phrase «rational principle»

The law of love or community, then, is not bondage for the spirit, but the dynamic rational principle which can guide the spirit in its service of the real good.

More prevalent and more insidious is the fact that just war discourse deceives sincere people by the very nature of its claim to base moral discernment upon the facts of the case and on universally accessible rational principles.

Philosophers explained that it was a purely rational principle.

The person of Christ is not something we could have deduced from general rational principles; he is a given event in history.

There are transcendant rational principles of justice which most ethics recognize, such as freedom, equality, order, and mutuality.

Different kinds of pleasures are preferred by different persons — they may even be incommensurable for a single person, or at least not comparable in terms of specific rational principles.

For some, it has been identical with calculating prudence; for some, with calculating benevolence; for some, with uncalculating acceptance of intrinsically rational principles; for some, with a method of solving problems of conduct.

Duméry's reduction of religion to rational principles becomes particularly apparent in his critique of Christianity.

The son of Soviet figure skaters, Yelchin was raised in the U.S., but the way he describes Pat, the punk bass player who weathers a siege by neo-Nazi skinheads in Green Room, the character sounds like a Dostoevsky hero, a man who's lived his life according to rational principles forced to confront, and embrace, the world's fundamental irrationality.

In America artists such as Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Jean Michel Basquiat championed figurative painting and in Italy the Transavanguardia, which held emotion and human imagination above rational principles, emerged to challenge Arte Povera.

Here you'll find posts about the struggle in America between rational principles of religious doubt and belief in the supernatural.

All medical - teaching was to be problem - based learning, and the family therapy model that developed there reflected this: distancing itself from psychodynamic thinking, it was problem - focused, and based on the types of rational principles articulated by Thomas Paine and the Scottish Enlightenment (i.e. unsentimental, democratic, empirical, enquiring, distancing itself from received wisdom and traditional established powers).

Just war discourse deceives sincere people by the very nature of its claim to base moral discernment upon the facts of the case and on universally accessible rational principles.

It's more along the lines of «the rational principle of the universe.»

The rational principle of beneficence presupposes the structural relationship of benefactor to beneficiary, of giver to receiver.

But the principle is not a natural or a rational principle, nor a principle to be discovered at the beginning of history or throughout history.

Turning to Principle 52, we find that Descartes believes the existence of a substance can not be discovered merely from the demonstrated, rational principle that it exists, for discovery must somehow involve observation (H&R 1:240).

Here he closely follows the teaching of Aristotle and explains that the rational principle «has an operation extending to universal being.»

In this way, the rational principle enables the human person to reach an intimate and deep knowledge of all existing things.

The rational principle empowers the person to read inwardly (intus legere — from which we get the word, intellect) the nature of a thing, and thus to «penetrate into the very essence of a thing.»

Everything can be thought, and the person, through the rational principle, can think all things.

In addition to this knowing power of the rational principle, a further constitutive dimension of rationality is the power we call the will — and with it, the property of freedom.

But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.

In doing so, he has sought to abandon the rational principle as much as possible and to relinquish leadership to the subconscious in the process of artistic creation.

Beyond purely pictorial values, the basic rationalism of his method and the mood of ideal calm in his paintings have certain moral implications; they seem to embody an underlying ethical belief in the rational principle which governs the world of artistic form and natural life.