Sentence examples for a rational creature from inspiring English sources

Tahrir is not a rational creature.

"Do not consider me now as an elegant female, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart," she says in true protofeminist fashion.

But Whippletree, the chief law officer in a small Minnesota university town, is above all a rational creature, and he searches for a rational explanation - as he has done in the two previous novels in the series.

But, he says, self-blindness in a rational creature is impossible.

In a rational creature, these are exercises of the rational faculty which do not arise without assent.

In effect, he is proposing that what it is for a rational creature to have a belief is, in part, for that creature to be aware of that belief; what it is for a rational creature to be in pain is, in part, for it to be aware of that pain; etc.

These are concepts that are not a part of what Williams calls the "absolute conception of the world" and do not express truths that any rational creature, regardless of her culture, would in principle acknowledge.

• One other burden: Past secular creeds were built on the 18th-century enlightenment view of man as an autonomous, rational creature who could reason his way to virtue.

Heaven is not necessarily absolute because freedom is an inalienable characteristic of the rational creature.

At the macro level, the Summa Theologiae is organized into three parts; first, a consideration of God; second, the rational creature's movement toward God; and third, of Christ as the way to God. (For a recent discussion of and summary of the debates over how to understand this organization, see Johnstone 2000).

Edward is a rational, ethical creature — "responsibility" is one of his favorite words — and the movie takes pains to be reasonable.