In thus privileging neither unity nor plurality, neither simplicity nor complexity, and in striking the balance that he did on purely rational principles, Leibniz exemplified a more complex, more comprehensive and, ultimately, more mature rationalism than that of his predecessors.
Rand tried applying rational principles to things that aren't rational at all, including musical and artistic tastes.
Moreover, the Renaissance enthusiasm for mathematics had resulted in a profound interest in rational principles, necessary propositions, and innate ideas.
Over time, this vision of a world ruled by rational principles evolved into an ideal of a society governed by rules.
The modern state is partly founded on rational principles and is given shape by bureaucratic hierarchies and evolving canons of law.
When the freedom of speech and the devotion to rational principles are derided, thuggery appears and the rule of violence is not far behind.
Rawls argued that the most rational principles of justice are those we would accept in an ideal state of equality — the "original position".
In a modern world that supposedly runs on rational principles, the convergence of artistic creativity and madness is thrilling; it promises escape from overly supervised consciousness and contact with otherwise repressed psychic forces.
Physiological processes (e.g., urination and other forms of elimination) are often viewed with disgust, and as a result many modern notions of sanitation are based on not entirely rational principles.
Though the United States may have been founded on the rational principles of the Enlightenment, this show suggests that what really makes it run then and now is the crazy, mixed-up energy of enduring adolescence.
By the time of Rabbi Ishmael (c. ad 100), these rules had been expanded to 13, and Eliezer ben Yose the Galilaean (c. ad 150) formulated 32 rules, reflecting rational principles of exegesis, which remained normative into the Middle Ages.
