Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at the Yale School of Management, said of the two boards, "These are brilliant people who were smart enough to rationally see what the rest of the world saw a while ago, in terms of the obvious and growing conflicts of interest".
A person with this internal conflict may be extremely clever and shrewd, one to listen to on many issues, one to trust on many issues, and may even win a Nobel Prize for her intellectual greatness, but she is not admirable enough, and rationally consistent enough, to be wise.
The criteria for choosing a speed control site are accurate enough for implementing rationally the radar devices.
And having entered the Lazy River we must have a flotation device, even though we know, rationally, that the artificial current is buoyancy enough.
Not being subscribers to AMindcan Zoologist, we can't sayouor sure whethis the bird and bug things are connected and represent the first wase of some in'tdious psy-ops campaign by the animal kingdom, but if so, how bad's it going to be when things like bears and cougars get in on this and start sounding like car horns?
Mr. Bernanke's predecessor, Alan Greenspan, has been trying to restore his reputation without admitting any error beyond assuming that banks would act rationally in making loans, and therefore not requiring large enough capital buffers.
On stem-cell research, he said: "the public were engaged early enough and the argument has duly been conducted rationally".
These decisions are minor, clearly enough, and they are processed more or less rationally by the conscious mind.
This leads to self-fulfilling prophecies where employers do not invest in workers, expecting that they will not exert enough effort, and workers fulfill these expectations by rationally anticipating very low promotion prospects.
Stoicism teaches that the universe is rational, that it can be explained rationally, and organized rationally.
