Sentence examples for our rationality from inspiring English sources

The virtues, however, are good (DL VII 102 103), since they are perfections of our rationality, and only rationally perfected thoughts and decisions can possibly have the features of harmony and order in which goodness itself consists.

Old-school economists might still hang on to the notion that we are all rational decision makers, but the field of behavioral economics has demonstrated that there are bounds to the rationality of economic agents, and that much of our rationality is really post hoc rationalization.

We must be ruthless in our rationality in order to authentically transmit the light of the trans-rational God in the twenty-first century.

More depressing, appeals to our rationality actually seem to impede empathy.

I call these anxieties entwined because, for me, they come accompanied by a shared error: the overestimation of our rationality and our autonomy.

True, the mind sciences will continue to show that consciousness does not work in just the ways we thought, and they already suggest significant limitations on the extent of our rationality, self-knowledge, and self-control.

As those fortunate to have means and choices in consumption, will we arm ourselves with knowledge and values to wield our economics for our planet, rationality and ethics?

History lessons aside, this approach to designing mobile experiences is predicated on the humanistic vision of the world in which everything revolves around mankind and how our evolving rationality should shape our experiences.

Rightness and goodness thus "represent differentiations of the demands of our own rationality as it applies to our sentient and our active powers" (Schneewind, 1977: 493).

For Žižek, however, as for Lacan before him, Freud's great insight was that everything about us – our vaunted rationality as much as our unavowable impulses – is soaked with craziness and ambivalence all the way through.

Fast-food companies can put their faith in what economists call our "bounded rationality".