Sentence examples for concepts of reason from inspiring English sources

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).

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".

(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.

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

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.

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.

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.

For Kant, the unity of science is not the reflection of a unity found in nature; rather, it has its foundations in the unifying character or function of concepts and of reason itself.

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.

There were in turn two aspects behind this latter dualism: that the universal concepts of theoretical reason cannot sufficiently explain or describe something particular; and that there is no criterion by which to apply the universal principles of practical reason to ordinary life.