The phrase "act rationality" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "act rationally"? You can use "act rationally" when describing behavior that is based on reason or logic rather than emotion or impulse.
Example: "In difficult situations, it's important to act rationally to make the best decisions."
Alternatives: "behave logically" or "respond with reason."
Obama assumed that Republicans would act "rationally" where "rationality" was defined by false reason -- on the logic of material self-interest.
What is being supposed here is that rationality, vis-a-vis morality, is very demanding: moral requirements just are rational requirements, so that a failure to act morally is a failure to act rationally.
But even among outsiders, the fatwa has different interpretations: a sign of weakness or cleverness; an act of rationality or utter cynicism about mixing affection and politics.
It's tempting to suppress your emotions in the hopes that you can act with cool rationality.
An agent can be considered as a computational entity that operates without human intervention (autonomous), interacts with each other (sociality), perceives and reacts to their environment (re-activity), always acts to obtain its aim (rationality) and exhibits goal-oriented behaviour by taking initiatives (pro-activity).
(The Stoics defined responsible or voluntary action in terms of assent, since this was the mechanism through which our rationality acts on the world).
The suppliers, as "atomized" individuals, acted on purely instrumental rationality, valuing profits over justice and pursuing personal interests regardless of the interests of others or of the industry as a whole.
If God acts irrationally (or beyond rationality, if you prefer), then anything is possible, including the falsity of all theology.
This theoretical framework is based on the so-called character-related rationality assumption that rational economic agents act as if they were trying to maximize their implicit utilities.
Nadler says, "Everything points to Arnauld's God being an ultimately arbitrary deity who does not act for any reason at all--indeed, a deity who, in His being, transcends practical rationality altogether" [Nadler, 2008, p. 533].
According to the canonical rationality assumption, the rational dictator who acts as if maximizing his self-regarding utility would take advantage of his dominant position and thus choose to offer the recipient nothing.
