Sentence examples for rational command from inspiring English sources
It is difficult to believe that Montaigne's friend was worried about unwavering rational command.
IN the chapter on sexual inadequacy, de Botton tells us of a friend of Montaigne's who "had grown impotent after failing to achieve the unwavering rational command over his penis that he assumed to be an indispensable feature of normal manhood".
For desire, intention, and pain, too, Shoemaker aims to reveal incoherences between having a rational command of the concepts in question and behaving as though one were systematically ignorant of or mistaken about those states.
But if the subject asserts "P but I don't believe that P" in such cases, she does not (contra the initial supposition) really have a rational command of the nature of belief and assertion; and thus it's not a genuine case of self-blindness as originally intended.
Unlike the Platonic tri-partite soul, all impulses or desires are direct functions of the rational, commanding faculty.
Suárez agrees that there are acts wrong in themselves, apart from anyone's will, but argues that a provident God must command rational creatures not to do such acts.
Cross with a cold, lucid, rational rage, that commands me to answer them and first of all to spit on them".
(Swinburne, 2004) But the broader distinction between arguments that purport to command our rational assent and arguments that have the more modest goal of showing their conclusions to be to some (perhaps specified) extent confirmed is one that can be employed independently of the use of the language of probability.
We could never discover a principle that commands all rational beings with such absolute authority through a method of empirical moral philosophy; we must use the a priori method.
The act would be completely rational and in conformity with divine commands, but would lack any merit or virtue.
For example, no rational person would pay the high prices commanded by real estate in Manhattan in order to plant wheat there.
