Sentence examples for claims of reason from inspiring English sources

The distinction between the regulative and the constitutive may be viewed as describing two different ways in which the claims of reason may be interpreted.

These include both the claims discussed in §1.1 and §1.2 above, and the practical claims of reason discussed below in §2.

O'Neill argues that this circularity is not vicious because the process of verification can be reflexive, as it involves reason critiquing the claims of reason itself.

While Descartes certainly sought to justify the claims of reason and relied upon them, even for him there are corresponding ontological views that are no less important to his system.

With his fundamental objective of achieving certainty for his beliefs, Descartes has thus been principally responsible for the incomplete characterization of rationalism as not just etymologically but essentially connected to the claims of reason.

In contrast, feminist postmodernism, skeptical of universal claims of reason and the progress of science, argues that only political solidarity across social locations can ground feminist findings, there being no independent epistemological groundings (for example Flax 1990; Haraway 1991).

Conservative scepticism is quite distinct from Cartesian or external world scepticism, therefore, since this scepticism is based on reason; rather, it is sceptical about the claims of theoretical reason, in politics and ethics.

As practiced by its leading expositors, Aquinas and Bonaventure (who differed greatly on many issues), Scholasticism was the systematization of the Roman Catholic understanding of the relation between the claims of human reason and the authority of divine revelation.

One might put this point by saying that, for Kant, virtuous character is subordinate to the claims of practical reason.

The Dreyfus Affair will continue to matter as long as there are those prepared to defend human rights and the dignity of every human life against claims of expediency, reasons of state and official miscarriages of justice.

This is something the chancellor has done, he claims, for reasons of freedom and flexibility, but is it just a coincidence that he's grabbing quite a lot of tax from pensioners early on to plug a hole which of course is necessary because the deficit isn't coming down.