Sentence examples for according to reason from inspiring English sources

For human beings the ultimate good or happiness (eudaimonia) consists in perfection, the full attainment of their natural function, which Aristotle analyzes as the activity of the soul according to reason (or not without reason), i.e., activity in accordance with the most perfect virtue or excellence (EN I.7.1098a7 17).

Aren't you glad that the pilots were trained according to reason?

Her decision was strictly according to reason, but sad experience has shown that a Chief Justice is not amenable to reason.

In his masterpiece, Political Justice (1793), Godwin not only presents the classic anarchist argument that authority is against nature and that social evils exist because men are not free to act according to reason, he also sketches out a decentralized society composed of small autonomous communities, or parishes.

Isaiah Berlin argued that the Enlightenment led to the belief that human beings could be reshaped according to reason's dictates.

Aristotle then argues that since the function of a human is to exercise the soul's activities according to reason, the function of a good human is to exercise well and finely the soul's activities according to reason.

But we act according to reasons as well as neurological causes, and reasons are a question of meaning, which in turn involves the inescapably creative business of interpretation.

The analysis of construction work defects is conducted according to reasons, time and place of manifestation, and type of structures.

According to Reasons Julian Sanchez, Fireflys cult following "seems to include a disproportionate number of libertarians".

Statistical evaluation by chi-square tests for differences according to reasons for dental GA.

The most plausible options are variations of an attitude David Velleman [ 1992] made famous the desire to act according to reasons.