Sentence examples for act according to reason from inspiring English sources

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.

He overthrew both the then dominant metaphysical concept of human freedom which had descended from Plato via the Stoics— according to which we are unfree when our acts are caused by the passions, and free only when we act according to reason, as well as the view that political freedom involves freedom from arbitrary domination.

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

This would, in time, abolish that part of barbarity and ignorance, for which our natives are so despised by all foreigners: this would bring them to think and act according to the rules of reason, by which a spirit of industry, and thrift, and honesty would be introduced among them.

Thomas Jefferson never declared any Thanksgiving Days during his administration because "... every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents".

For performance reasons, such non-browser-based programs should still act according to HTTP and cache information from the server just like a web browser does.

We must act according to the law".

"We will act according to Chechen traditions".

But it is useful to act according to nature.

They Act According To Their Values.