First, they are biased in their emphasis on "rationality" – that is, patients are assumed to act as rational agents capable of conceiving a symptom as a threat, and medical professionals are assumed to have the ability to reduce this threat.
Consent-based theories of legitimacy and obligation generally agree that consenting parties must be rational agents, capable of understanding moral categories such as right and wrong.
Underlying the liberal belief in adversariality is the conviction that human beings are essentially rational creatures capable of settling their political disputes through dialogue and compromise.
The two older Dashwood sisters represent opposite temperaments: Elinor, the oldest, is "sensible," rational, and capable of exercising self-restraint, whereas Marianne, who shares her mother's temperament, is emotional and impulsive.
This study proposes a rational method capable of analyzing the behavior of circular reinforced concrete (RC) columns under pure torsion with or without axial compression.
Jan Narveson (1988), for instance, argues that children do not have moral status in their own right because only free rational beings, capable of entering into reciprocal relations with one another, have fundamental rights.
Deterrence theories are criticised for treating people as brutes not rational agents capable of responding to moral reasons because the deterrent element of punishment gives people a prudential reason (relating to the prospect of punishment), not a moral reason, to refrain from breaching the law.
Rawls seems to understand people much like economists do: as rational actors, capable of divvying themselves into parts and acting out of each part differently.
The malnourished brain is not logical, rational or capable of approving a camera crew and a reality show to take part in the treatment.
But it's no less of a disaster to fail to acknowledge younger women as rational beings capable of making their own decisions and understanding consequences for themselves, just like any other human being.
Combining targeted agents is another rational strategy capable to induce tumour regressions in tumour models, as previously reported (Jimeno et al, 2005).
