Sentence examples for guidance of reason from inspiring English sources

But men most agree in nature when they live according to the guidance of reason.

And so Spinoza sums up his account of virtue like this: "the more each one seeks his own advantage, and strives to preserve himself, the more he is endowed with virtue, or what is the same, the greater is his power of acting according to the laws of his own nature, that is, of living from the guidance of reason.

However, human beings do not generally live under the guidance of reason.

But then grown-up humans also do these things under the guidance of reason; reason in the adult human case is the craftsman of impulse (DL VII 85 6).

"Insofar as men are torn by affects that are passions, they can be contrary to one another …[But] insofar as men live according to the guidance of reason, they must do only those things that are good for human nature, and hence, for each man, i.e., those things that agree with the nature of each man.

However, the distinction seems good enough to count as a precursor to the knowledge-that/knowledge-how distinction, especially when we consider that Aristotle takes technê to be "identical with the characteristic of producing under the guidance of true reason" (Nic. Eth. 1140a.10).

They look for substantive guidance from outside of reason itself just as hypothetical imperatives only guide action if some end is taken for granted.

19 Patients may also need clear guidance on reasons to revisit their GP if their symptoms persist, an important safety-netting function of general practice.

The appeals court sent that issue down for a new federal district judge to consider, with the guidance that the "rule of reason" standard should be applied.

"Quite frankly, the reason the guidance of GAO is so important at this time is because Congress has increasingly ignored its own duties to oversee the functions of government," Coburn's report says, detailing a shrinking number of oversight activities, especially in the House.

This question is best undertaken with the guidance of (preferably strong) a priori reasons to postulate the expected or "true" distribution, such as exponential or power-law (and not both in the sense of multiple exponentials organized into a power-law).