Always there were those who cultivated strengths of body, mind, soul, and spirit and exerted these in defense of the preservation of senses of themselves and of their peoples, of their "race," as having worth beyond the definitions and valuations set on them by rationalizations of institutionalized enslavement and oppression.
Most people have suffered a bout of jealousy now and then in their lives but most people find this is a fleeting experience and soon replaced by rationalizations that allow them to get over it and get on with life.
The real dynamics of competition in the U.S. economy are frequently obscured by rationalization.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, the disenchantment of the world.
But when the workplace wears the face of religion, there is a danger that good intentions might be replaced by rationalization, self-interest, the profit motive, bullying and even discrimination against and persecution of the "unsaved".
"Seventy five years later, Kathy Boudin claimed to see her birth to a family of well-to-do whites as an agonizing defect to be obliterated by rationalization, violence and self-deprivation.
Even after Nkrumah took power, his people used to summon his followers to action with the call: "Come and express your anger!" This would not have stirred a response in Annan, to whom anger is so nearly alien that he cannot quite account for its absence in his makeup except by rationalization.
Nonetheless, so long as there are occurrences of mental properties in need of the distinctive kind of explanation provided by rationalization, mental properties occupy an ineliminable explanatory role.
"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world.'" Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, leaving a world that can be mastered technically and intellectually.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations.
25 Defensive coping is often characterized by rationalization of "failures" and projection of blame and responsibility.
