Sentence examples for by reason alone from inspiring English sources

What is more, some of the most important disagreements that divide people and nations cannot be settled by reason alone.

He has no instinct, no flair, no talent undefinable by reason alone — and, were Cronenberg to grant him any such preternatural gift, the success would be, in some way, merited; the downfall, tragic.

What's terrifying in a story by Stephen King or Peter Straub is, finally, nothing less than the sensation of pure helplessness, of confronting something that cannot be conquered — or regulated, or even understood — by reason alone.

In Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle had referred to "Fantasy" as a "mystic wonder-land", and the word was frequently applied to areas of life that could not be explained by reason alone.

With the development in Western theology of increasingly sharp distinctions between nature and grace, the natural and the supernatural, and reason and revelation, theologians became interested in what truths about God could be established by reason alone.

Building upon Hume's work, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant advocated freedom from any heteronomous authority, such as the church and dogmas, that could not be established by reason alone.

For most patients in this study, their WTD was insufficiently explained by reasons alone.

He saw the moral law as a categorical imperative i.e., an unconditional command and believed that its content could be established by human reason alone.

Similarly, he was insistent that the conditions of human freedom are not generated by human reason alone, but are experienced as incursions of transcendence in rational thought.

He maintained that the principles of morality, which are determined by pure reason alone, are also binding in politics, and that pure reason provides the basis for a republican constitution involving the principles of liberty, equality and independence.

It was Kant's great merit, Rehberg declares, to have shown that the first principle of morality— 'Act so that the maxim of your will becomes a universal law' is determinable by pure reason alone.