The phrase "rational reflections" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to thoughtful, logical thought processes or considerations. For example, "After much rational reflection, I decided to pursue a career in law."
Apparently, emotional associations color people's judgments far more than rational reflections on health v illness.
Charles Hartshorne and William Reese, 20th-century U.S. philosophers, have attempted to clarify and criticize all possible rational reflections concerning the relationship of deity to the universe.
These findings on mental aberrations also undermine the central tenet of efficient market theory, which is that prices are rational reflections of all available knowledge.
But human experience does seem to support the general point: the human capacity for self-reflection enables human agents to distance themselves in thought from every aspect of their own psyches — even their rational reflections.
Given this possibility, a person's identification with her motives cannot be cashed out in terms of higher-order attitudes of approval and disapproval, or in terms of the rational reflections that typically ground these attitudes.
True, we will always be susceptible to external forces that are stronger than we, but we can extend the reach and power of our minds simply by reflecting on our own advantage, and even more so, by acting in accord with our rational reflections.
"It's a time for calm, rational reflection about what we can learn and how we can move forward.
Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.
The declared goal of Surrealist writers and artists was to free man's unconscious impulses from the distorting controls of rational reflection; creativity, they said, came from deep nonrational drives.
It then cited a concurrence in a 2001 Supreme Court case that said prejudice might not rise "from malice or hostile animus," and might well be the result of "insensitivity caused by simple want of careful, rational reflection or from some instinctive mechanism to guard against people who appear to be different in some respects from ourselves".
This puts doubt on the claim that preferences can be manipulated by rational reflection.
