Sentence examples for rational attitude from inspiring English sources

A more rational attitude towards risk across transport is needed.

City managers need to adopt a rational attitude and make gradual improvements, he said.

It's a perfectly rational attitude, Shapin points out: in a world in which technologies and economic circumstances change rapidly, personal virtues may be the most stable things around.

In view of all these factors working against a healthy, rational attitude toward sex and in view of the inevitable disappointments, exploitations, and rejections that are involved in human relationships, one might wonder how anyone could reach adulthood without being seriously maladjusted.

The Aristotelians defined philosophy as a habitus intellectualis, a rational attitude toward being.

Unlike utilitarianism, however, the account of value underlying contractualism does not claim that there is only one rational attitude to have towards value.

So the intemperate person has appetitive or spirited attitudes in competition with the rational attitudes, appetitive or spirited attitudes other than those the rational attitudes deem to be good.

Moreover, it would seem to require that the rational attitudes which endorse ruling be ruling, which would in turn require that the rational attitudes are at least on the path toward determining what really is good for the person.

If 'good' is the organizing predicate for rational attitudes, 'honorable' or 'fine' (Greek kalon) is the organizing predicate for spirited attitudes.

This would seem to require that there actually be appetitive attitudes that are in agreement with the rational attitudes' conception of what is good, which would in turn require that the rational attitudes be sufficiently strong to have a developed conception of what is good.

You might say that a person could be courageous with spirited attitudes that track perfectly what the rational attitudes say is fearsome and not, in the face of any pleasures and pains but still be unjust insofar has her rational attitudes are inadequately developed, failing to know what really is fearsome.