Sentence examples for based on reason alone from inspiring English sources

In supplying Bentham with an axe, Dostoyevsky revealed the poisonous fruit of a political philosophy based on reason alone.

Kant thought that both ethics and religion had to be based on reason alone, and so he denied that God (or belief in God) could be the source of moral values.

Therefore Henry was initially tempted to make a distinction based on reason alone between essence and its essential being; as, for example, in the solution adopted in Quodl.

Nevertheless, since essence can be thought of independently from its being, and being is not part of its content, we cannot refer here to a distinction based on reason alone.

The hope was not based on reason, she said.

"It's not based on reason," she said.

It's not based on reason, and it's not based on evidence.

Both points show, Rehberg believes, that we are not completely free moral agents who simply choose to become part of a culture, and who choose principles of action based on pure reason alone; rather, we are born into our culture, which shapes our very identity, and which supplies the content for our principles.

A war based on faulty reasons that have never been retracted, let alone fully explained to the American people or the world.

"I don't agree with it based on science reasons alone," he says, calling homosexuality unnatural.

Republicans, on the other hand, maintained they redrew the map based on partisan reasons alone, and in compliance with the Voting Rights Act.