"Ex Libris" is about an ideal of reason and knowledge — and about the gap between that ideal and what takes place beyond the library's walls.
Although deduction marks a kind of ideal of reason, in which the truth of the conclusion is absolutely guaranteed by the truth of the premises, people's lives depend upon making do with much less.
Wade Buckley had been the McConnell ideal, the reason he showered state universities with earmark money.
He struggled to define a philosophy that could take the messiness of the world into account while preserving an ideal of reasoned and just liberalism.
Other scholars, recalling the historical imposition of hegemonic religious and political visions of salvation and citizenship, fear the elevation of any canonical account of existing human virtues, in favor of visions that prize people's capacity to shape their own ideals through reason, autonomy, and democratic deliberation (Sparrow, 2014; Buchanan 2011).
The second form of synoptic interpretation, exemplified by Susan Bordo's The Flight to Objectivity, argues that the modern period in philosophy, and, in particular, the philosophy of Descartes, is the source of our ideals of reason and objectivity that are gendered male.
In other words, this story chronicles a turn in philosophy coincident with the rise of modern science, which generated ideals of reason and objectivity that are deeply antagonistic to women and feminism.[5] Cartesian rationalism and the norms of modern science mark a decisive break with a philosophical and cultural tradition that was more accommodating of female characteristics and powers.
It was in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great that the diverse peoples of the Mediterranean and Middle East began to apply Athenian ideals of reason and philosophic inquiry to their own lives.
Albeit not ideal, we reasoned that this procedure overall limits the number of both false positive and false negative in our set of genes.
