Sentences with phrase «which human rationality»

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But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do science «goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).

But the description of man as a rational or intellectual animal, familiar in the Middle Ages, is dangerous unless full recognition is also given to the feeling - tones which are as much a part of human existence as is human rationality.

«5 The full account of the human ousia in De Anima and in the Nichomachean Ethics is a dynamic one, in which the rationality of the agent shapes, by virtue of his choices and his actions, his own coming - to - be.

As it says «the economists» most basic problem is anthropological», in other words the subject is based upon a narrow and restrictive concept of rationality which ignores the richness of human relations in favour of an obsolete utilitarianism.

The Father has sown seeds of the Word into the fabric of human rationality, which, when enkindled by the muse of the Spirit, causes persons to participate in the praise of creation for its Creator.

The state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak within the concrete structures of human society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.

Newbigin's contention, with which I wholeheartedly agree, is that «a standpoint outside the real human situation of knowing subjects» is not available to us, and consequently Christianity is always received and transmitted within existing particular structures of life and thought, as is also the case with the tradition of scientific rationality.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

But does not this idea of the ultimate development and expression of technological rationality suggest a future in which human beings, as well as the natural environment, will be subject to complete «rational» control in the name of «efficiency,» the future of Brave New World if not of 1984?

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

Modernization has shattered them all because they with their hierarchies and patriarchies sanctified by religion could not comprehend within them the creativities of human individuality and rationality which were emerging.

«If future research confirms that an index of species» abundance can be derived from naked DNA extracted from water,» says Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment, «it could easily improve the rationality with which fish quotas are set, and the quality and reliability of their monitoring around the world.»

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.

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.»