Sentences with phrase «world in a rational way»

«We also teach people that we, as individuals, have the ability to deal not only with the world in a rational way but that actually managing our own emotions and our thoughts is relatively easy once you have the toolkit.

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As Keith Stanovich, Richard West and Maggie Toplak point out in their new book, The Rationality Quotient, rational beliefs «must correspond to the way the world is,» not to the way you think the world ought to be.

Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «Spirits of the Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?

Socrates thus contrasted the reality of the experient and rational subject, the soul, with the world of appearance in a way quite new for Greek ethical thought.

Among the Greeks, the world was objectified in such a way that the forms of rational reflection came to be determined by the forms given in the world instead of by the unconscious and its projections.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

Isaac Newton first got the idea of absolute, universal, perfect, immutable laws from the Christian doctrine that God created the world and ordered it in a rational way».

And in a rational way, because I, like billions of others in the world, think rationally — and can't help it.

If we can avoid the dangers of environmental devastation or global warfare brought about by the megalomaniacal pursuit of technological power, and the almost equally dreary prospect of a world of persons controlled by behavioral engineers in the name of technological rationality, we may move into a future in which the pursuit of power and rational order gives way to the cultivation of «intensities of experience.»

The immediate conviction of the moment in this way justifies itself as a rational principle enlightening the objective world» (RM 133; italics mine).

In his latest book, first published in France in 1995, Hadot surveys with care the great schools of classical thought» Platonism, Aristotelianism >, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism» and argues that they share not only a drive to offer rational explanations of the world but also a conception of philosophy profoundly different from the way that discipline currently understands itselIn his latest book, first published in France in 1995, Hadot surveys with care the great schools of classical thought» Platonism, Aristotelianism >, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism» and argues that they share not only a drive to offer rational explanations of the world but also a conception of philosophy profoundly different from the way that discipline currently understands itselin France in 1995, Hadot surveys with care the great schools of classical thought» Platonism, Aristotelianism >, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism» and argues that they share not only a drive to offer rational explanations of the world but also a conception of philosophy profoundly different from the way that discipline currently understands itselin 1995, Hadot surveys with care the great schools of classical thought» Platonism, Aristotelianism >, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism» and argues that they share not only a drive to offer rational explanations of the world but also a conception of philosophy profoundly different from the way that discipline currently understands itself.

Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go «all - in» for a secular education, by examining their opinions under the tutelage of an irreligious faculty; or else they must withhold something of themselves from rational inquiry, erecting a barrier between the performative requirements of their research discipline and their beliefs about the way the world actually is.

But the most frosty time I have had in economics was 27 years ago, when I argued to my development economics class that people in the third world were rational in the number of kids that they had, because they had no way to save for their old age.

However, the real world of behaviour is a long way from the rational viewpoint, and not just in the realm of information gathering.

Via Twitter, I found and read a fascinating analysis by Stéphane Hallegatte, an economist and lead climate change specialist at the World Bank, pointing to the rational aspects of why we end up building in harm's way.

I am now a computer programmer in the business world by day, which in large measure involves trying to understand how other rational minds work, in the way they have offered supporting programming interfaces to solve practical problems for you.

Still, in a more rational world, the president could've worked with Congress on the new EPA regulations to ensure smooth sailing for this, but of course the way things are that's impossible.