Sentence examples for rational aspects of from inspiring English sources
It seems to me that if secularism is going to be a positive creed, it can't just speak to the rational aspects of our nature.
Ramakrishna thus gave educated Hindus a basis on which they could justify the less rational aspects of their religion to a consciousness increasingly influenced by Western values.
[Read the rest.] Via Twitter, I found and read a fascinating analysis by Stéphane Hallegatte, an economist and lead climate change specialist at the World Bank, pointing to the rational aspects of why we end up building in harm's way.
Early in his forthcoming book, "Irrational Exuberance," Robert Shiller -- who has done more than any other economist of his generation to document the less rational aspects of financial markets -- describes the full-page advertisement that Merrill Lynch ran a year ago, when the Dow Jones industrial average passed 10,000.
Today, consumers turn their attention not only to the logical and rational aspects of the product, but increasingly symbolic and emotional factors have gained an important role in buying decision.
Edgar" and the Freud of "A Dangerous Method" side by side, you notice some traits they have in common: a dogmatic faith in reason and science that blinds them to the less rational aspects of their temperaments; a paranoid suspicion of enemies and underminers; a habit of blurring the boundaries between the personal and the professional.
But this alone is not always sufficient to ensure that we maximise the "rational" aspect of decision-making.
The principal course objective is to give the student a thorough understanding of the classical Greeks' emphasis on the rational aspect of human nature, the intellectual foundations for subsequent western civilization.
In this course, we shall examine the views of some central Greek philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics) on the irrational and non-rational aspects of human life.
The essential feature that Aristotle shares with Plato is the belief in rational and non-rational aspects of the soul.
According to psychological monism, motivational conflict and irrational action do not result from a 'struggle' between the rational and the non-rational aspects of the soul; what we call irrational must be understood as (bad) states of the rational soul.
