Sentence examples for command of reason from inspiring English sources

A hypothetical imperative, by contrast, expresses a command of reason, but only in relation to an end already set by the agent, e.g., based on her inclinations (G 4 413 20).

In any event, he added, the court is not entitled to ignore even an unwise constitutional command for reasons of convenience.

But Kant stresses that the head of state is bound by the commands of public reason.

Kant talks of reason "commanding" what we should do, and emphasizes that we are co-legislators as well as subjects in the kingdom of ends (G 4 408, 431 445).

A worry that the 60% Shia majority in the small island state of Bahrain will rally to the command of foreign ayatollahs is one reason that keeps the country's Sunni ruling family from granting its citizens greater rights.

But Washington has never been willing to put its troops under the command of any other nation, one reason that even in NATO, the Supreme Commander Europe, is always an American.

That, as long as the latter should retain the command of his army, no just reason could exist that he [Caesar] should disband his troops and expose himself to the insults of his enemies.

Mr. Dennett would like the coolness of reason to replace the commands of faith.

There are chains of command for a reason.

The idea that one can have personal reasons not to obey the commands of a reasonably just state is unclear.

Postulating God's existence is a theoretical exercise of reason, which cannot be morally commanded (CPrR 5 125, 144).