"The Canon of Pure Reason" sets out the moral basis for belief in God, grounding it in our rationally necessary hope for the highest good (which Kant here suggests constitutes a necessary incentive to morality).
"Practical issues are issues over which people are prepared to fight and kill one another; and it may be that unless some way is found of talking about them rationally and with hope of agreement, violence will finally engulf the world" [1].
"This committee spends its money, we hope, as rationally as possible, and we support winners, not losers".
Oversight is effective when the sponsor can rationally expect, not just hope, that the brief will be fulfilled.
Later, when she finds herself alone with the disgusting, lecherous Harry, and rationally frightened, she just hopes that, if she can keep him talking, she will "get home somehow, and make a novena in thanksgiving".
By propping up the brutal Assad regime in concert with Iran, Russia became a pivotal power in a roiled region, established a major naval base in Syria, and prevented a fellow autocrat from being overthrown — a particular phobia of Putin's — while hoping, more rationally, to limit chaos and instability.
Only with the identification of these molecular switches can we hope to design rationally compounds against these signals to enhance the regenerative process in the adult liver.
If he therefore viewed the disappearance of liberal or socialist utopianism as a positive and realistic step, he also concluded that the old hopes for a rationally organised society had declined with the demise of these unrealistic expectations.
