"A third aspect of humanism is the idea that history is a story of human advance, with rationality increasing over time".
Although it is generally accepted that the antecedents of rational discourse are in ancient and medieval rhetoric, there is no consensus about the roots of rhetoric itself; what is specially lacking is a clear insight into the generic background of the early rhetorical text and discourse types that have furthered the steady advance of discursive rationality in modern society.
Also, common principles of causal decision theory advance standards of rationality that are too demanding to apply to humans.
Our particular genetic instruction manual generates large frontal lobes, advanced cognitive abilities, rationality, language, consciousness and the ability to choose between right and wrong.
Any explicit findings that Congress chooses to make, though not dispositive of the question of rationality, may advance judicial review by identifying factual authority on which Congress relied.
We argue that during this period the rhetoric of corporate governance was mediated by workers' ability to create a space through which their own interests were defined, articulated and brought to bear on the discourses and rationalities advanced by senior management in support of 'new' accounting (and management) techniques.
It should hardly matter then, in the realms of pure rationality and scientific advance who actually got there first.
The Rationality Quotient is a significant advance in the psychology of rationality.
A schizophrenic, self-mutilating era in which man flew higher than was dreamed possible and plumbed depths unimaginable; slaughter beyond measure coupled with advances beyond comprehension; collective insanity and individual rationality; atavistic passions and detached irony; terror and humour.
First, the asking of this skeptical question reveals a commitment to at least instrumental rationality, since one is here questioning whether being practically rational would advance one's ends.
