Through his constant engagement with revealed texts to support the importance of reason, Saadya, in the very act of championing reason, can be seen as planting reason on the ground of revelation.
Chad focuses on accuracy in media and the importance of reason and truth in understanding current events and social issues.
In the late 18th century artists and intellectuals came increasingly to emphasize the role of the emotions in human life and, correspondingly, to play down the importance of reason (which had been regarded as supremely important by thinkers of the Enlightenment).
Since Twitter is banned in China, a big chunk of them are overseas, and that usually gives skeptics of Ai's importance a reason to write him off.
26) on Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is so quintessentially American: foreigner comes to America, learns the importance of reason in politics and goes home perhaps a changed person, an ambassador for democratic values.
He rightly stresses the importance of reason and autonomy, for example, but doesn't deal with the serious worries that we are nowhere near as free or rational as traditional humanists have believed.
Over the course of centuries, he points out, the ancient Greeks recognized the importance of reason, giving birth to the techniques of modern science and mathematics, and establishing the foundations of the modern state.
In his general philosophical comportment, Saadya upholds the need for and importance of reason, even in a religious context of revelation and faith.
I too value the importance of reason in evaluating the pictures of the world that determine how we act.
Shortt and fellow Satanist Stu de Haan told the station that they planned to show up in "business casual attire," deliver the following message on the importance of reason and then leave.
