The phrase "absolute rationality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about decision-making, philosophy, or economics to describe a state of perfect logical reasoning without any emotional or subjective influence.
Example: "In theory, absolute rationality would lead to optimal decision-making, but in practice, human emotions often interfere."
Alternatives: "complete rationality" or "total rationality".
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The three stages that exist in most "developed" counties today are traditional (ethnocentric, family values, accepting religious dogma as absolute truth), modern (world-centric, the Industrial Revolution, science, rationality) and post modern (pluralistic, civil rights for all, a concern for the well-being of all people and for the environment).
In addition, a strong theological voluntarism shifted the focus of theological discourse away from God's intellect and the rationality of his creation and toward the absolute power and arbitrariness of God's will.
The Kantian ethical subject uses reason to transcend cultural norms and to discover absolute moral truth, whereas homo economicus uses reason to rank desires in a coherent order and to figure out how to maximize desire satisfaction within the instrumental rationality of the marketplace.
In the Túngara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus, Kirkpatrick et al. (2006) showed that females do not use strict absolute mating preferences, but found no evidence of violations of rationality principles.
Drewermann held that anthropocentrism, rationality, and morality must be understood in less-absolute terms and that repression of sexuality must be overcome.
In the same way that a suicide bomber is really little more than an absolute dogmatist -- a believer who has truly done as his sacred text demands by abandoning all rationality to his god -- Fred Phelps has just taken what the Bible itself says and ran with it.
His writings – which are widely consulted today –reflect his belief, as one colleague put it, that international law is "a translation of natural decency, rationality and universal values into its professional language", an approach "based on principles of legal normativism, legal completeness and absolute justice".
Will rationality prevail?
