Readers of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy will better understand Putins's behavior and his response to Western disapproval if they remember those 19th century authors' deep skepticism of the Enlightenment's emphasis on logic and reason.
Later the mature Kant's emphasis on reason and autonomy, rather than emotion and dependence on either authority or grace, may in part reflect his youthful reaction against Pietism.
Maritain notes the focus on the awareness of the self as characteristic of art from the time of the German romantics, and recognises its value so far as it challenges the emphasis on reason and mechanical technique.
This desirability was embedded within a scientific and biomedical discourse, which reinforced hegemonic masculinity through its emphasis on reason, control and factual imperiousness.
The emphasis upon reason, science, and philosophy may explain the absence of great poetry in the 18th century.
This emphasis on reason in general, and on natural theology in particular, may help in part to explain how the term "fideism" has come to function within Roman Catholic theology largely as a term of opprobrium.
By addressing this issue in the "Health of Migrants" report of 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the vulnerability of migrants regardless of type and reason of migration and emphases on eliminating the differences in health status between migrants and the native population.
The emphasis on reason in this connection is important, and it links up with the project of Kant's "critique" of pure reason.
Aristotle, with his emphasis upon reason as the distinctive human function, and the Stoics, with their emphasis upon human beings as a part of the natural order of the cosmos, both helped to shape the natural law perspective which says that "True law is right reason in agreement with nature," as Cicero put it.
Appropriate response and management will manifest as substitution of high-risk chemicals and practices for benign alternatives, revision of commercial and domestic behavior to minimize production and releases of CECs, and an emphasis on reasoned precaution rather than remediation.
