Sentence examples for reason and its from inspiring English sources

Here however, I'm interested in a deeper question: if the human race has indeed progressed beyond the 'childishness of religion' - as Freud so put it - upwards to the maturity of reason and its dominion, then why step back into that fetal past?

It is true that his belief in natural human reason and its capacity to find truth suggests a mild rationalism, but Thomasius abhorred innate ideas and maintained that all knowledge, all thought, begins with sense perception.

The Elements deals with the sources of human knowledge, whereas the Method draws up a methodology for the use of "pure reason" and its a priori ideas.

Valla then went on to attack stoicism, the philosophy of the control of the emotions through reason and its advocacy of a simple life.

His massive study The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (two volumes, 1966 and 1969), rehabilitated the age of reason and its thinkers, above all perhaps the Scottish philosopher David Hume, as rationalists who consciously rejected Christian myths and superstition and laid the foundations for the modern world of ideas.

The Categorical Imperative expresses the autonomy of reason and its governing principle.

Reddy Ice's chief executive resigned in December "for medical reasons" and its chief operating officer resigned in January to "to pursue other business opportunities".

The island is actually an outpost of Hamburg, for historic shipping reasons, and its signal tower, built in 1367, is therefore Hamburg's oldest building, despite being 130km away.

When Dr. Crim took over the Atlanta schools system, it was in disarray, with standards plummeting, teachers and students being shunted from school to school for racial reasons, and its institutional structure unraveling.

Con Ed undertook numerous projects for political reasons, and its payroll was loaded with countless relatives and friends of the politically influential.

10 January 2015: Oldham director Barry Owen says he has "no regrets" over the club's attempt to sign Evans - explaining that the approach was "driven by football reasons" and its failure "came down purely to finances".