Sentence examples for is based on reason from inspiring English sources

I believe Islam is based on reason: unless you have done everything you can within your means to actively avoid a bad situation, you cannot use the excuse of it being God's will.

His sister, Mary Sidney (1561-1621), completed both projects and also translated French Protestant writings into English, arguing that "the virtuous life is based on reason rather than on emotion".

Act two: modern European philosophy, which begins in the 17th century when René Descartes tried to cast doubt on everything, thus precipitating a civil war between rationalists who thought that knowledge is based on reason, and empiricists who said that it depends on experience.

Conservative scepticism is quite distinct from Cartesian or external world scepticism, therefore, since this scepticism is based on reason; rather, it is sceptical about the claims of theoretical reason, in politics and ethics.

Transhumanism -- the concept of moving beyond the human being using science and technology -- is based on reason and scientific evolutionary principles.

But the team's commitment to use five starters from the outset is based on reasons that extend beyond the season's first few weeks.

The school's theology, forged in disputes with Zoroastrians, Manichaeans (see Manichaeism), and Christians, claimed to be based on reason.

Machiavelli's political philosophy, which completed the secularization of politics begun by Marsilius, was based on reason rather than religion.

Getting to your question of morality, for example, science provides the basis for moral decisions, which are sensible only if they are based on reason, which is itself based on empirical evidence.

Kant thought that both ethics and religion had to be based on reason alone, and so he denied that God (or belief in God) could be the source of moral values.

Administration officials say China continually expresses dismay at efforts in Congress to combat the trade deficit, saying that the moves are driven by politics, rather than being based on reason.