Sentence examples for rationality against from inspiring English sources

It's a case of head against heart, intellect against emotion, and rationality against impulse.

One might plausibly question whether Carneades' resistance to (straightforward Stoic) assent was the 'heroic' defense of rationality against opinion and error Clitomachus took it to be (Cicero Ac. 2.108).

In both Britain and France such policies would be a disaster, but mainstream politicians are too timid to defend rationality against the extremists who capitalize on widespread frustration with the status quo.

It pitted unchecked, anarchical emotion against stoic rationality, atavism against civilization, present against future.

And it is suggested that order and harmony is established in the soul when the rational aspect rules over the non-rational, yet the non-rational aspect is always capable of revolting against rationality and creating disorder and badness.

A rebellion against rationality and the ego, gothic represents both the irrational id and all our fears about that id.

Protests against rationality and uniformity are seen, as well, in the successive waves of youth cultures and religious revivals that have marked late industrial society.

As David Sims, his American friend in Cairo, recalled, this was how Hawass established himself internationally — "by becoming a spokesman for rationality, put up against the crazies...

As David Sims, his American friend in Cairo, recalled, this was how Hawass established himself internationally — "by becoming a spokesman for rationality, put up against the crazies..

Others have staunchly defended the "rationality" of mysticism against charges of irrationalism (Staal, 1975).

Philosophers concerned to defend the rationality of science against sociological misrepresentations include Larry Laudan (1984) James Brown (1989, 1994), Alvin Goldman (1987, 1995) and Susan Haack (1996).