Sentence examples for limits of reason from inspiring English sources

Kant affirms that the limits of reason established in The Critique of Pure Reason would silence all objections to morality and religion "in Socratic fashion, namely, by the clearest proof of the ignorance of the objectors" (1781, 1787, 30. See also 530 531).

Well, that comment illustrates the limits of reason, too.

(Elizabeth Kolbert wrote last month about new cognitive research that shows the limits of reason).

Encounters with ghostly figures are taken as Kantian attempts to test the limits of reason itself.

Heathens have a commitment to reason that fully acknowledges the limits of reason.

The current germ mania, she said, began with the outbreak of AIDS, but has grown beyond the limits of reason.

There was a time when conservatism was a philosophy concerned primarily with wrestling with and understanding tradition and the limits of human reason and ability.

Abraham has no objective reason to think that the command he hears comes from God; indeed, based on the content of the command he has every reason, as Kant pointed out in Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, to think that it cannot come from God.

They have exhausted the limits of sweet reason and international idealism in handling the Soviet menace.

Far from marking the extreme limits of secular reason, the Terror was a faith-based initiative, the guillotine the instrument of another kind of auto-da-fé.

Theologians, by and large, have had to acknowledge the limits of human reason and language to address the "character" of God, who is beyond normal human experience but who impinges on it.