Sentence examples for rational foundations from inspiring English sources

In the 17th century, attempts were made to develop empirical and rational foundations for its basic principles.

Rational foundations of modernity are cunningly accepted by man as the launching platform of ever-wilder irrationalities.

Will evolutionary theory be the universal acid, to borrow Daniel Dennett's metaphor, which eats away at the rational foundations of our morality?

In so doing he potentially undermined the rational foundations not only of beliefs about things not immediately present in space or time but of all scientific knowledge (see induction, problem of).

The result is a state religion that has no rational foundations, a mere "respect for ecclesiastics" that involves adulation and mysteries but no true worship of God.

He may be right to say that whether murder has rational foundations is "the question implicit in the blood and strife of this century," but in changing his focus from suicide to murder, it is also clear that Camus is changing his optic from the individual to our social belonging.

"It's not an issue with a solid, rational foundation.

Since the credibility of the Bible rests upon belief in divine revelation, theology lacks a rational foundation.

Considering they are 36 and 33 respectively, their decisions had a rational foundation, but Trapattoni can ill afford to lose anyone of such experience.

Evolutionary thinking enabled him to rescue the idea of human unity, taking it over from a religion that no longer provided it with adequate support, and put the idea of common descent on a rational foundation.

But this noble ideal assumes that human decisions have a fundamentally rational foundation, that material goods are the main measure of privilege, that an interest in egalitarianism is paramount, and these hypotheses are surely not universally accepted.