Sentence examples for led by reason from inspiring English sources

Sanctions thus ensure that people who 'refuse to be led' by reason abide by the dictates of natural law; in this way, sanctions ensure that divine moral rules function as a system of law.

Everything in the universe is necessary, and there is no free will, except in as far as Spinoza is in favor of calling someone free who is led by reason ( Ethics, I, prop. 32).

It is precisely this position that Spinoza undercuts when he writes in the Ethics that "the laws and rules of Nature…are always and everywhere the same" (EIII preface) and in the TP that "whether man is led by reason or solely by desire, he does nothing that is not in accordance with the laws and rules of nature" (TP 2/5).

And because that reality is an experience in consciousness, we are led by reason to the view of the universality of conscious moments of experience.

The producers, led by Jeffrey Richards, gave no reason for the complaint, but their associates said that the producers were skeptical about the mercury-poisoning claim, contending that Mr. Piven may have been bored with the play or eager to return to Hollywood.

They said Mr. Letterman was considering moving to ABC for other reasons, led by what the associates called an often fractious relationship between Mr. Letterman and CBS.

The costs are high for many well-known reasons, led by a lavish use of medical technologies, responsible for 50 percent of the yearly increase.

Study results also provide, for the first time, important information on the specific reasons that underlie a large but ambiguous discontinuation category: 'patient decision.' Such patients were identified on the RAD as having discontinued due to a mix of reasons, led by lack of efficacy (42%) and followed by medication intolerability (32%).

But even the opposition led by Benazir Bhutto (who has no reason to love article 58) backed the move unanimously.

In a 1999 analysis of those early results, three researchers led by Nicholas Zill wrote, "A probable reason why Head Start children are not learning early reading skills like letter recognition and print awareness is that many Head Start teachers are not teaching them".

Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.