Fromkin says there are eight "radical turns" that have brought us from the African forests of millions of years ago to where we are now, among them: becoming human, inventing civilization, developing a conscience and achieving rationality.
When persons achieve perfect rationality, they accord with the rational order of a universe ruled by divine reason.
Formal organizations, especially hierarchical organizations, exaggerate this tendency toward routine and use it to achieve organizational rationality.
In satire, absurdity achieves its rationality through moral perspective — or it remains simply incoherent or malign absurdity.
On this view, the interpreter puts himself into the shoes of the interpreted, acknowledging evidential and cognitive limitations that might prevent her from achieving maximal rationality (Grandy 1973).
Yet they make choices that are accurate in their appropriate application domains, achieving ecological rationality through their fit to particular information structures.
We are a part of God; to perfect our reason is to achieve the perfect rationality of divinity.
Together, these characteristics give humans the potential to achieve self-consciousness, rationality, and morality.
The evolutionary approach to public justification can be understood in terms of what James March calls "adaptive" rationality rather than "calculated" rationality, where rationality is achieved when an agent adapts effectively to her environment regardless of how she does so (March 1978).
In her grief, Catherine Barnes contacted Oregon Voices, an advocacy group that has the stated goal of achieving "justice and rationality in policies regarding sex offenses".
