Sentence examples for obey reason from inspiring English sources

Then, without explanation, he makes the claim that reason has two importantly distinct aspects, one that has reason directly and in itself and one that obeys (or can obey) reason.

The appetites can fail to obey reason; but they at least have the capacity to obey (as, for example, such automatic functions as nutritive and metabolic ones do not).

For comfort, she tells herself that, at her age, "romantic passions have grown weak, and the heart obeys reason".

His doubts at the last were cleverly induced by mental torture, and his gradual development away from traditional orthodoxy into more and more definitely Protestant views during the Reformation represents fairly the spiritual career of a man who obeyed reason rather than instinct.

The part that obeys reason is that aspect of the soul, such as the appetites, that functions in a human being under the influence of reason.

For the head of the civil state is under an obligation to obey public reason and to enact only laws to which all individuals could consent.

This is a challenge for externalism because of the suggested connection between blame and reasons we discussed above: an agent is blameworthy for her action only if in so acting she failed to obey her reasons.[1] It follows that an agent's reasons must be limited by her desires and dispositions; some form of internalism is true.

The choice of May does not obey any particular reason, the results for other months provide qualitatively similar insights.

So in a particular case, an individual may see that there are reasons to obey the assembly and some reasons against obeying the assembly and in the case at hand the reasons against obedience outweigh the reasons in favor of obedience.

In protest situations demonstrators may decline to obey for political reasons; occasionally they get in trouble for not dispersing quickly enough.

Whoever obeys them because they are just, does not obey them for the reason he should".