Sentence examples for a rational part from inspiring English sources

Moral constraints, she came to believe, were indispensably a rational part of flourishing as a human being – in this, they did not resemble etiquette.

In 1867, Walter Bagehot, the great essayist and long-serving editor of The Economist, suggested in his work The English Constitution that there was no point in explaining the monarchy as a rational part of British society.

Socrates, in Plato's Republic, argued that there are three distinct parts of the soul, a desiring part, a rational part, and what he labelled thymos, a Greek word usually translated as "spiritedness".

Therefore, we employ the index of Baker and Wurgler (2006), although we acknowledge that its information may not be 'pure sentiment' but does contain a rational part.

A more rational part of me accepts that a lot of people are going to think it's utterly dreary".

The question she confronts is, then, if men and women have souls that make them the same in species the same in rational capacity—how can women be superior to men? Marinella's answer depends on distinctions in the faculties of soul, and in particular on a distinction between the rational part and the desiring part, in which moral virtues are located.

The emotional part of the brain is an elephant and the rational part is the guy on its back.

This combination of the emotional and rational part during mentalizing may result in a more accepting attitude and a lower level of anger and aggression.

A secret of the studio is that the rational part is often the creative part.

First, he is not denying that the rational part of the soul is a form, or even that it is the form of a human being.

"Deep below the rational part of our brain is an underground ocean where strange things swim," he wrote on one notepad.