Sentence examples for rational elements from inspiring English sources

They deftly combined emotional and rational elements to produce successful campaigns for products as disparate as processed potato snacks ("I've got a fever for the flavor of a Pringles"), tourism ("I NY") and throwaway lighters ("Flick your BIC").

Since then, and in direct response to our criticism, more rational elements in the party have made an effort to reform policy in a number of areas to ensure that it has a scientific basis.

It is distinct from useful, more rational elements like the psychology of characters, rich details of settings, pungent dialogue, clever plots, memorable images — all remain mechanical unless animated by the pure mastery of "and then," the mysterious, proliferating other-life of narrative conviction.

Kant believes that he can resolve obligation into rational elements.

Even if so, does the genuine statesmen lead by appealing to a nation's more rational elements or by playing the demagogue and exploiting stupidity?

Pure practical philosophy, the rational elements of practical philosophy in abstraction from anything empirical, is called by Kant "metaphysics of morals" (4 388).

"The grid was important as the rational element of control," recalled Marber in a lecture in 2007.

Reginald Pecock, an arid Scholastic philosopher, wrote an English treatise against the Lollards and various other works emphasizing the rational element in the Christian faith; he was judged guilty of heresy for his pains.

While they often recognize that the emotions contain a cognitive, and therefore potentially rational, element, they try to uncover this element by advocating its separation from the affect.

(5) Principle of the rule of reason Aristotle agrees with Plato's dictum that, whenever a system contains a rational element, it is appropriate for it to rule over the nonrational part, because the rational element alone knows what is best for the whole (see Plato Republic IV.441e).

When spirit together with the charioteer (the Republic's rational element, there too identified with what is truly human rather than bestial in us (588b10 589a4)) "leads us towards what is best and is in control," we possess moderation (sôphrosunê) (237e2 3).