Since irrational and even silly conceptions of the good can be the product of efforts to find meaning or value in life, they are entitled to full respect under it.
First, the real reason many of us are unwilling to abandon the notion of the actual infinite in mathematics is the prevalent conception of an irrational number as a necessarily infinite extension.
The defenders of the traditional conception of akrasia as irrational thus wish to grant special rational authority (in this procedural sense) to the agent's better judgment, even if they admit that such a judgment can be substantively incorrect.
It's about unhealthy conceptions of virility that put irrational pressure on young boys and men.
While the idealizationists tend to reject Kuhnian revolutions as too discontinuous and irrational, they do see a resemblance to their internalistic, dialectical conception of scientific development.
While pure proceduralists argue that the inevitable contestedness of standards that define the quality of outcomes makes it impossible to ground legitimacy in them, defenders of mixed conceptions are concerned that a fair process may lead to irrational outcomes outcomes of unnecessarily and unacceptably low quality.
According to Hobson (1907, p. 22), "the term 'arithmetization' is used to denote the movement which has resulted in placing analysis on a basis free from the idea of measurable quantity, the fractional, negative, and irrational numbers being so defined that they depend ultimately upon the conception of integral number".
And indeed, nothing could be further from Hegel's version of absolute idealism than Schopenhauer's theory on which behind the realm of appearances constructed in accordance with our own conceptions of space, time, and causality his form of epistemological idealism there is a unitary reality that is utterly irrational or at least arational his form of ontological realism.
Many psychoanalysts now consider the conception of an id overly simple, though still useful in drawing attention to the unconscious motivations and irrational impulses within even the most normal human being.
