Sentence examples for concept of reason from inspiring English sources

Alcoff, maintaining that we need some concept of reason, makes a similar argument against Nussbaum and points out the dogmatic character of claiming that some particular concept of reason is the concept that cannot be given up (Alcoff 1995).

The will's ability for self-determination according to universally binding laws conveys the objectivity demanded by the proper concept of reason.

Margaret Fell is not an advocate of an egalitarian concept of reason or a supporter of equal educational opportunities for women.

If the maleness of reason is extrinsic to the traditional concept of reason, then the historical fact that it was a gendered notion does not justify or require its rejection by feminists.

In a supplement (Supplement II) to the letter, Jacobi included a long comment on the nature of reason that he reprinted in the second volume of his collected works (1815)as an independent essay under the title of 'On the Inseparability of the Concept of Freedom and Providence from the Concept of Reason'.

Crummell's concept of reason is thus both natural (in that it's derived from our natural state, pre-existing the law) and categorical (in that it is to be applied to those facts and circumstances that come under it, independent of political contingencies), and so ought not be jeopardized by the kind of contingent appeals made by adherents of conventional and partial views.

By contrast, contractualism seems able to avoid aggregation, because it begins, not with individual pleasure and pain, but with the more flexible concept of reasons.

While those with greater sophistication may be able to understand the pure rational system of religion absent its "mystical cover," most of humanity will need rituals and symbols to grapple with "the highest concepts of reason" (6:109).

(ii) "The ideas", in Kant's sense presumably of concepts of reason whose objects are not such that they could be met in experience (Kant 1787, A311/B368-A320/B377), "give us no knowledge, rather they lead us to an imagined world.

Instead, a work of art succeeds when it presents an "aesthetic idea," a representation of the imagination that "at least strive[s] toward something lying beyond the bounds of experience, and thus seek[s] to approximate a presentation of the concepts of reason".

It requires their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.Mr Dobson not only regards this as outrageous, but his response suggests a rather surprising lack of familiarity with the concept of public reason, a mainstay of democratic political philosophy.