So, while mistaken rhetorical rejections of precaution add further poison to current political tensions around technology, precaution itself offers an antidote – one that is in the best traditions of rationality.
If we do not now promote the open and informed public debate that's required, future historians will conclude that our country turned its back not only on our long history of internationalism and engagement, but also on our once globally renowned traditions of pragmatism, rationality and evolutionary progress.
Malevich called some of his paintings "alogical". Because the sun, in Western tradition, is a symbol of rationality, it must be captured and destroyed.
Hegel, despite his commitment to systematic metaphysics, had nevertheless carried on the Enlightenment tradition of faith in human rationality.
The problem with the western philosophical tradition is that it constructs a view of rationality that is in compliance with the oppressive function of rationality or the form of rationality that supports domination.
His book, The Irony of Liberal Reason, published by the University of Chicago Press (1981), examines the impact of changing conceptions of rationality upon the liberal tradition.
But Fuller's primary concern, like that of the wider tradition of natural law theory, is with rationality and the specific implication of fully coherent reasonableness: morally reasonable judgment and choice.
Reformist Jews sought to reinterpret their history and traditions in a more modernist light -- where Israelite and Jewish "disobedience" was disapproved of by traditional religion, secularists took pride in it as a sign of rationality and questioning.
There is a strong tradition, not least in economic applications, to regard full ≽-transitivity as a necessary prerequisite of rationality.
This essay considers a tradition of writing and theory that links perversion, utopia, and the philosophical critique of modern forms of rationality.
