Sentence examples for primacy of reason from inspiring English sources

In his new book, "Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason," the British political economist William Davies argues that the age of the primacy of reason over feeling, which began with the scientific revolution, has come to an end.

To call the 18th century the Age of Reason is to seize on a useful half-truth but to cause confusion in the general picture, because the primacy of reason had also been a mark of certain periods of the previous age.

Others, such as the Arabic philosopher Averroës and his followers (both Muslim and Christian), accepted the primacy of reason.

Even those cognitive scientists who have been most instrumental in uncovering our myriad innate biases continue to believe in the primacy of reason.

More generally, C's pessimism and carefully reasoned arguments against the primacy of reason fit in believably with Coetzee's work as a whole.

It seeks to reconcile two profoundly different value systems, one based on the primacy of reason and science and the other revolving around spiritual and religious values.

Scanlon's position turns on a number of controversial ideas, among them, rejection of the Humean theory and, perhaps most important, his contractualism together with his view about the normative primacy of reasons.

In answer to the question, "What may I hope?" Kant invokes the primacy of practical reason, so that theoretical reason may accept the postulates of God, freedom and immortality "as a foreign possession handed over to it" (5:120).

The primacy of practical reason is a key element of Kant's response to the crisis of the Enlightenment, since he holds that reason deserves the sovereign authority entrusted to it by the Enlightenment only on this basis.

Rauscher 1998 notes that Kant's own use of the "primacy" of practical reason is more limited than O'Neill's, while endorsing O'Neill's overall case).

However, the second Critique does include an important section that bears on this question: "On the primacy of pure practical reason in its connection with speculative reason" (5:119–121).