Sentence examples for rational unity from inspiring English sources

Tollefsen's interpretationist account here focuses on the rational unity certain groups, such as organizations, are capable of displaying (see Tollefsen 2002a and 2002b, and Rovane 1998).

Kantian dualism is nothing other than the most self-conscious expression of this "hiatus" between subject (the source of rational unity) and object (the source of non-rational content).

When such "premise-driven" procedures are followed, a group not only displays a rational unity indicative of mindedness, but does so in such a way that it might arrive at a judgment that a minority perhaps even none of the individual members personally hold.

Furthermore the propositional content of every judgment contains a set of a priori logical forms deriving from the pure understanding, as well as a higher-order a priori rational subjective unity deriving from the faculty for apperception or rational self-consciousness (see Section 2.1.1 above).

And, finally, the Stoics felt the universe was rational and in unity.

(Isaac Israeli, p. 50) In addition to an emanative/generative order, a prominent feature of Neoplatonist philosophy is the idea that through withdrawal from bodily desires, and perfection of the intellect, one's rational soul can attain unity with the higher world.

These lamentations for simpler times – that all we lack is the right sort of spine-stiffening democratic leader, or rational culture, or cultural unity, or patriotic spirit – ignore the fragmented nature of our politics.

Without such a guiding agenda, and without the assumption that nature conforms to our rational demands for securing unity and coherence of knowledge, our scientific pursuits would lack orientation.

The early Neoplatonists those outside of the "revealed" monotheistic traditions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity suggest that it is possible for the rational soul to achieve unity with The One/God.

The essential point seems to be that the development and expansion of empirical knowledge is always, as it were, "already" guided by the rational interests in securing unity and completion of knowledge.

To Hegel, the state was the culmination of moral action, where freedom of choice had led to the unity of the rational will, and all parts of society were nourished within the health of the whole.