Sentence examples for immediate inclinations from inspiring English sources

Haidt's psychological studies count against Plato only if we take them as denying any chance of rational control and allowing no alternative to a life dominated by our immediate inclinations — our "gut reactions," as Haidt puts it.

Zia's immediate inclination was to start with the heart three.

Rather, some 'impressions' leave us with no immediate inclination to accept them, while some strike us as subjectively 'persuasive', at least initially, owing to their internal characteristics (e.g. the richness of their representation).

My immediate inclination was to decline, but my attraction to the woman who asked me to attend overruled my gut reactions.

As did Kierkegaard, then, Nietzsche uncovers an aspect of my being that can be understood neither in terms of immediate drives and inclinations nor in terms of a universal law of behavior, an aspect that is measured not in terms of an objective inventory of what I am but in terms of my way of being it.

An arrogant man, Haberer held himself aloof from everyone at the bank except his immediate colleagues, an inclination symbolized by his installation of a "floating floor" of felt, rubber and cork under his lavishly appointed office to insulate it from the noise of the street, the Mtro, and, his detractors said, the real world.

Drawing here on Hegel as emblematic of the entire tradition, Kierkegaard, in his book Fear and Trembling, argues that for philosophy my life becomes meaningful when I "raise myself to the universal" by bringing my immediate (natural) desires and inclinations under the moral law, which represents my "telos" or what I ought to be.

Its operation is based on the analysis and imaging of the hinge axis and its movement, used to calculate the necessary parameters, that is, condylar path inclination, Bennett's angle, immediate side shift, and Bennett's shift, allowing for a qualitative on-screen computer analysis of mandibular movements.

A natural inclination is to focus on smaller, immediate tasks you've been putting off.

The immediate circumstances of reconciliation politics in 1998, and Blair's inclination towards touchy-feely gestures, may have precipitated the decision to mount a large-scale inquiry, but the blatant inadequacies of Widgery meant it had to happen some time.

Certainly, the mountains offer the immediate thrills of whooshing down pistes in an environment engineered to satisfy childish inclinations for play.