And yet, he urges us to choose reason as a guide for behavior, even if choice itself is an illusion.
When you read her accounts of prayer, it becomes clear that prayer is a form of meditation, a way for the faithful to train the mind to become aware of an inner nature, a still small voice that serves as a guide for behavior.
38 In practice, representations serve as a guide for behavior and communication; they affect behavior and create a certain approach to the world.
Such a person must have sufficient knowledge and intelligence to understand what kinds of actions morality prohibits, requires, discourages, encourages, and allows, and also must have sufficient volitional ability to use morality as a guide for their behavior.
The original descriptive sense of "morality," parallel to the descriptive senses of "etiquette" and "law," has two formal features: that morality is a code of conduct that is put forward by a society and that members of that society accept it as a guide for their behavior.
The only other features that all of the original descriptive moralities have in common is that they are put forward by a group, usually a society and they provide a guide for the behavior of the people in that group or society.
Clearly the Bible is not the best guide for moral behavior.
43 A focus on common knowledge and its role as a guide for our behavior makes SRT well suited to study how the public in different countries perceives hearing aids and the implications of these representations.
In contrast, very little is known about the neural substrates supporting intrinsic motivation, despite the central role of internal factors for guiding behavior (for a few studies that have reported neural responses to stimuli consistent with participants' self-described internal motivation, see Bengtsson, Lau, & Passingham, 2009; Linke et al., 2010; Mizuno et al., 2008).
Our experiments establish that this approach can be extended to the analysis of an innate behavior and provide guides for designing similar studies of other behaviors and their underlying genetic and neural substrates.
Chad Hansen (1992) points to another possible difference in interests — this time in interests that language is meant to satisfy, arguing that the classical Chinese thinkers did not conceive of the primary function of language to be descriptive and as attempting to match propositions with states of affairs, but rather as a pragmatic instrument for guiding behavior.
