Sentences with phrase «rational reason as to»

To revisit something said at the beginning of this review, it has been 13 years since Samus starred in a side - scrolling shooter and after playing through this latest title it's odd to think of any rational reason as to why she ever left.

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There seems to be no rational reason for the stock to take such a beating, but sentiment about construction and homebuilding slowing, as interest rates are grinding higher, has taken hold to some extent.

But the idea of personhood and a rational (i.e. spiritual) nature that qualitatively distinguishes us from lower forms of life is, as I noted above, a truth accessible to «the natural light of reason.»

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

He believed that reason was ultimately limited to solve social injustice because our rational capacities as human beings are, at their root, self - serving.

In essence, Duddington attempts to liberate Christianity from the perception that religion is widely considered inimical to reason, and therefore can not operate as part of the rational, secular sphere of law and politics.

Even as I fight using reason, faith, the American Psychiatric Association, my mom, his friends, therapists and every piece of rational data out there, I have yet to fully uproot his convinced culpability.

The religious act of belief offers a total structure of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

If this writer was such a non-believer then why doesn't she realize that there are rational, realistic reasons for not being an alcoholic and wouldn't need to use some «higher power» as a crutch to understand that when you do anything to the point where it physically damages your body then it's time to realize that you've taken it too far?

The burger, which gets its color from added tomato powder, is not quite as terrifying looking as the black burger (which used bamboo charcoal and squid ink to dye the ingredients), but it still doesn't look like something anyone could find a rational reason to knowingly ingest...

As seen in the definition of «rational» above, its own definition is dependent on the definition of «reason» to determine what is or is not rational.

theology's purpose is to give a «rational account of the truth of faith,» as Pannenberg stated in his essay «Faith and Reason» (Basic Questions in Theology, Volume 11 [Fortress, 197 11, pp. 52 - 53).

Try it: a philosopher will ask you to defend your denial - to explain why you are not obligated to be rational - and as soon as you try to satisfy this request the philosopher will say, «See, you can't deny your rational nature without contradicting yourself, because you resort to reasoning even in resisting rationality.»

In the first instance there could be reasons of a rational logical sort, reasons which challenge the coherence of the concept of God as that concept lies among the other concepts central to Whitehead's speculative scheme.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

If death is the ultimate loss of control, and if that is the ultimate human indignity inconsistent with life as autonomous self - possession, then there is no reason to ban or even disapprove of suicide for any mortal, rational, human being.

Where the taboos were simply pushed aside by reason, as in India and Greece, rational reflection on the nature of the good life became possible, but the sense of ought, expressed so powerfully in the taboos, remained unrationalized, whereas among the Hebrews the question of what one ought to do preoccupied rational attention.

In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.

You both seem to have no rational reasons to believe that Christianity is true as far as I can tell.

Outside of religion, there is no rational reason for women to be treated like property, to be considered inferior, or to be denied the same basic rights as men.

Rather than these unity - level «rational structures» being intrinsic to what «modern scientific reason» discovers a posteriori, the Pope argues that science's «methodology -LSB-... is] based» upon «acceptance of] the rational structures of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a given» (our emphasis).

Instead, I'm sitting down to write this post — against my better judgement, if only for the spam comments I'll receive alone, let alone the rest of the very real and rational reasons as both a Christian and a feminist to never write on this topic.

If we can really assure ourselves by natural reason that God exists then that is not an article of faith, and the same goes for Christ's divinity, if, as apologists claim, we have good rational grounds for thinking that he claimed to be divine, that he was neither mad nor a fraud, and that he rose from the dead.

For example, some men identify themselves with the rational aspect of psychic activity and perceive passions and emotions as something to be controlled, whereas others identify themselves with this affective aspect and perceive the claim of reason as a heteronomous demand.

In Love» s Knowledge and elsewhere Nussbaum uses the fiction of Proust, Henry James, Dickens, and others to buttress her claim that the emotions are not necessarily opposed to reason» that, in fact, a truly rational person will experience certain emotions as the consequence of proper understanding.

Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.

As a result mind (or reason) ends up being placed in a purely contingent relation to some finite set of naturalistic conditions to which it is fatalistically enslaved, thereby reducing the rational search for unity of structure to simple naturalistic needs, desires, or drives.

In fact, there is no rational reason to believe that any gods exist, as there is no evidence to support their existence.

«Atheist» is way to specific to describe rational people (that reject delusional beliefs of any kind and believe in reason and logic, using tools such as evidence, facts, and probability), as disbelief in god is really just a tiny aspect of being normal, rational human being.

As technological reason creates more and more networks of machines and organizations dedicated to rational efficiency, problems are more or less solved — temporarily.

As I argue in Myths of Reason, rationalistic thought is obliged always to «begin in the rough» with the assumption that certain «large» general ideas are just what is needed; 1 ideas whose extreme vagueness reveals that the range of rational concepts is very broad indeed, so broad in fact that the vexed question of just where and how to begin doing natural philosophy becomes a primary and major worry.

And if this is so, reason can not be seen as a means of passively entertaining an antecedent order; rather, it must be seen as rationalization, the production of order, and as control, the maintenance of order» (UP 106; cf. El 44 - 46).2 Thus he agrees with those philosophers who see a link between our desire to achieve a rational understanding of nature and our drive to control or dominate nature by means of technology.

With regard to his faith, he avoids rational reasoning as if it were a venomous snake.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

The human individual, as a concrete instantiation of a rational and free nature, is «distinct by reason of dignity», and because of this we attribute to him the word person.

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»

It was the firm conviction of secular philosophy as well as religious teaching in my youth that morals and rational reasoning lead to the same conclusions, and this was the basis of the trust in progress I was brought up with.

The American university aims at a kind of rational autonomy and sees an education in reason as identical to an education in morality; however, it no longer draws upon the reflections of those Enlightenment thinkers on the great tension between moral authority and rational self - sufficiency.

It's great for winning others to the side of reason, of course — but I assume you want to slow the flight of rational people from Christianity rather than making them flee so as not to be associated with the nutters.

i was a bit disappointed with dououre who we seem to be linked with as a potential DM but almost certainly better than xhaka who the junkies still have faith in for reasons beyond any semblance of rational thinking

Frankly though, you sweep aside Emerson injury and the fact he came in over the winter break, as well as Alonso being good, and just sort of conclude that there isn't a rational reason to hold off on playing him and that it must be a bias and something nefarious

The debate has never truly been had on the MMA forums because when it comes to the most divisive issues such as racism, politics or whatever they may be, people can not for some reason be rational and objective.

As children become kindergarten age, they become more rational and logical, responding to reasoning more often.

Just as some people relish the idea of a beef tongue sandwich and others are repelled at the notion, many consumers want to avoid pink slime for reasons both rational and irrational.

Such parents remain receptive to the child's views but take responsibility for firmly guiding the child's actions — emphasizing reasoning, communication, and rational discussion in interactions that are friendly as well as tutorial and disciplinary.

For over 30 years GALHA, the LGBT Section of the BHA has promoted humanism as a rational, naturalistic worldview that trusts the scientific method as the most reliable route to truth and encourages a moral and ethical life based on logic, reason and compassion.

Two people could be against the same thing but for different reasons / rational and these attempt to explain that rational and as such can be viewed as the root of this disposition.

Having said that it would be a good time for everyone to get together on this and make it as quick and painless as possible for Mr. Silver, whose track record of surviving political pitfalls will tend to make him hang on longer that the situation warrants for any rational reason given the circumstances this case presents.