Rawls only attempts to show that his two principles of justice would be favored over utilitarian principles, since he sees utilitarianism as the main competing tradition of reasoning about justice.
Given the need in our evolutionary past for mechanisms to restrain interpersonal violence within cooperating groups, "it should come as no surprise if we have innate responses to personal violence that are powerful but rather primitive," predating the evolution of complex reasoning and now competing with our more reasoned responses (Greene 2008, 43).
For his company's 15th anniversary season, Mr. Curran presents two recent pieces: "Fireweather," set to a Charles Wuorinen score for two pianos, and "Left Exit," which uses recorded voices, speaking from texts that offer competing ideas about secular reasoning and religious faith.
Both to avoid dissonance and to protect their ties to others, individuals face a strong psychic pressure to conform their perceptions of risk to those that distinguish their group from competing ones a bias in reasoning that can actually intensify as the public becomes more science literate (2).
In 2007 the International Association of Athletics Federations banned him from competing in able-bodied competitions reasoning that his blades allowed him to expend less energy than other runners.
This seems to be because the brain becomes bogged down with competing demands, and cognitive resources needed for reasoning were diverted in order to maintain eye contact.
Some were killer players in college; others picked up the game after having children, reasoning, as Mrs. Cassidy did, that competing in a real live sport beat climbing a stair machine to nowhere and other methods of staying in shape.
The third component contributing to the activity's success was the group work, for this required students to examine critically the persuasiveness of each group member's reasoning as well as negotiate among competing interpretations.
For the passage could mean that "true" and "false" are meaningless not because evaluative judgments are essentially non-cognitive, but rather because competing evaluative views are immune to the effects of reasoning.
Using reasoning by exclusion is one of the competing possibilities, though not the dominant one, in the case of the dog" ([5], p.736).
