Sentence examples for rational end from inspiring English sources

IT was the year President John F. Kennedy traveled to Berlin to proclaim "ich bin ein Berliner" and the year he gave his famous American University speech arguing that peace was "the necessary rational end of rational men".

Its enormous scale, long duration, and participants' rigorous actions make it the most rational end of "the pedigree of urban movement" (Bi 2006).

For example, in the ÃEM model consisting of the open regular subsets of the real line, the open intervals with rational end points form a base in the relevant sense.

On this interpretation of Spinoza, there is a right (or at least a rational) end to pursue perseverance in being and other ends are wrong (or at least irrational).

A nuclear age made peace "the necessary rational end of rational men".

Especially when thoughts such as, "The rational end of man is life in the state" [ 20], and "Permission to enter or leave it must be given by the state" [ 20], and finally, "Hence if the state claims life, the individual must surrender it" [ 20] are offered in support of individual sublimation to the state.

We respect or honor others as agents with rational ends of their own not by promoting their ends as we do our own but, rather, by not sacrificing them to our ends.

His vision of contemporary society exhibits a careening of growth and excrescence (croissance et excroissance), expanding and excreting ever more goods, services, information, messages or demands — surpassing all rational ends and boundaries in a spiral of uncontrolled growth and replication.

Later, in the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Kant would distinguish between "things" and "persons" (4:428), describing the former as natural means and the latter as rational ends.

This dialogue serves as the locus classicus for the notion of an externally-imposed origin of living beings through the action of an intelligent Craftsman (demiurgos) who created the cosmos and all living beings in accord with eternal archetypes or forms, realizing through this both aesthetic and rational ends.

Though he proves quite a wily debater, Thrasymachus' reasoning abilities are used only as a means to these other, non-rational ends.