Sentence examples for idea of reason from inspiring English sources

The first half of the century was fascinated by the idea of reason as something historical.

Surrealism equipped a revolt against the very idea of reason, out of disgust at the First World War, with a Freud-influenced cult of the unconscious mind.

The way the philosopher sees this universal audience, which is the incarnation of his idea of reason, depends on his situation in his cultural environment.

"I'm still a nonbeliever, even though my idea of reason is the idea of a reason which is open to mystery".

It has no shared interpretation of its history, and it had lost its idea of reason and its conception of the person.

It was barbarians such as the Nazis, and decadents such as Dali, who made a cult of instinct, whereas Freud – the explorer of the unconscious – always held to an idea of reason.

But it is impacted by the popular idea of Reason-Basicness: that all normative concepts need to be understood in terms of reasons.

It is connection with this that Kant argues, in the second part of the Appendix ("On the Final Aim of the Natural Dialectic of Human Reason" (A669/B697)), that the three highest ideas of reason have an important theoretical function.

Further, in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant holds that although objects can never be given in intuition that would correspond to ideas of reason, such ideas never the less function as regulative principles that direct our understanding with regard to what it should inquire into next.

Kant's view that ideas of reason can function as regulative principles is developed in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic in the Critique of Pure Reason.

First, Kant seems to offer an account and critique of the ideas of reason specific to each discipline.