Sentence examples for in practical reason from inspiring English sources

"American liberalism is, at its core, a set of moral commitments rooted in practical reason," E. J. Dionne Jr. declares in the introduction to "Liberalism for a New Century".

In philosophy, the positivism of Taine and Renan, and its confidence in practical reason, gave ground to a resurgence of interest in the spiritual and the mystical, led by the work of Henri Bergson on intuition and the creative imagination.

A respect-based account might also exclude psychopaths if it attributed their moral deficits to severe disabilities in practical reason.

Kant himself insisted that his argument was not a theoretical argument, but an argument grounded in practical reason.

The Kantian model of such a self is of a pure cognizer — a reflective agent engaged in practical reason.

An inclination of that kind is relevant in practical reason because its object is desirable, and desirable because it would contribute to anyone's flourishing.

All doctors accepted to participate but three GPs were unable to join in (practical reasons) but the participating 15 GPs represented a broad variation in age, gender and clinical experience.

In short, practical reason — our ability to use reasons to choose our own actions — presupposes that we understand ourselves as free.

Instead, sensible feeling … is indeed, the condition of that feeling we call respect, but the cause determining it lies in pure practical reason" (CPrR 5 75).

Morality is grounded in pure practical reason, and the moral agent must act on the basis of maxims that can be rationally endorsed as universal principles.

Whether he grounds his conclusions in the Bible or in so-called "practical reason," Robert George's opposition to feminism, homosexuality, multiculturalism and a lifestyle based on freedom of choice sounds remarkably like the tenets of the Taliban.