Sentence examples for rational animal from inspiring English sources

If all reason were conscious, and if being human were, by definition, being a rational animal, and if rationality were logic, then the facts would set us all free.

Thus, Socrates is not Socrates without being a rational animal, i.e. without having the rationes sensitivity and rationality.

Following his methodology for defining a species in terms of its proximate genus and specific difference, Aristotle had defined man as a rational animal (ho anthropos zoon noetikon) (Aristotle, Hist. Anim. I, 1: 488a7; Nichomachean Ethics I, 5: 1097b11; VIII, 12: 1162a16; IX, 9: 1169b18; Politics, I, 2: 1253a3).

Is he a rational animal?

In the true statement "Man is a rational animal," the predicate is convertible with the subject and states its essence; therefore, "rational animal" is the definition of man.

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal but with a near infinite capacity for folly.

This is why Keats's negative capability – "when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason" – is so challenging to rational animals like us.

"For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement," by Kathryn Shevelow, informed us that although Aristotle thought humans were the only truly rational animals, Francis of Assisi preached to the birds, and eighteenth-century Britons believed that a woman could give birth to rabbits.

First published in 1992, Irrationality proposes, and to any reasonable mind proves, that we are for the most part credulous fools who would do well, in most circumstances, to stop and think before we go and do something stupid; for stupid things are what we often end up doing, however much we congratulate ourselves on being rational animals.

Socrates and Cicero are both rational animals.

In mature rational animals, these impressions are thoughts, or representations with propositional content.