Sentence examples for founded on reason from inspiring English sources

"True magnanimity as I consider it is a good opinion of oneself, founded on reason and on the solid merit of one who aspires to great things and contemns the petty.

We like to think of our beliefs, and disbeliefs, as founded on reason and close, thoughtful observation.

Gentili's work initiated a transformation of the law of nature from a theological concept to a concept of secular philosophy founded on reason.

The expression "common law," devised to distinguish the general law from local or group customs and privileges, came to suggest to citizens a universal law, founded on reason and superior in type.

With Gandhi out of the way, Godse said, India would be "free to follow the course founded on reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building"; it would "surely be practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces".

Like Plato and Kant, Korsgaard argues that some kind of integrity is necessary to be an agent and cannot be achieved without a commitment to morality, which is founded on reason (Korsgaard 2009, xii, Chapter 3; cf. Plato Republic 443d-e).

No religion is apt to be founded on cold reason.

"There is emerging medical evidence that the aesthetic end of landscaping turns out to be founded on medical reasons, that you will feel better emotionally in a garden," Professor Stilgoe said.

Perhaps resentment is best understood as a specific form of anger, restricted conceptually to cases founded on moral reasons.

In this he stands outside the venerable tradition of rationalism in ethics, which insists that if moral demands cannot be founded on moral reasons, then there is something fundamentally suspect about morality itself.

This fact is founded on two reasons.