Though laudable, inviting reasoned reflection on the part of consumers might be beside the point.
This is not to imply that the conclusions I draw through reasoned reflection are necessarily more correct than the conclusions of those who seek guidance from religious teachings.
Given that ethics seemingly requires reasoned reflection on how to realize the good life as persons and as communities, is Chan finally un-ethical or anti-ethical?
However, the Delphi method is optimal because the reasoned reflection process improves the options for reaching some sort of consensus on the value system.
Putting the passions outside the scope of reasoned reflection, as merely an ancillary quality of the action — to consider how to do something not merely what we are doing — is to make one kind of decision.
As such, we may say in particular of those Biblical prooftexts employed by Saadya in support of the importance of reasoning, that they simultaneously (one might even say, paradoxically) beckon us to (a) the limitations of reasoning, (b) the need for (and consistency with reason of) revealed Knowledge, and even (c) the need to ground a life of reasoned reflection in a life of revealed tradition.
Ad testing often relies on large surveys, which deal in reasoned reflections, rather than in the spontaneous, even unconscious, sentiment that really interests marketers; new technology promised better results.
"The vote gives reasons for reflection to political forces and citizens," President Giorgio Napolitano said Tuesday.
So yes, Aquinas thought that moral law could be derived by human reason from reflection on natural facts … but only because he believed that both that reason and those natural facts were part of an intelligible and ordered universe governed by "something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God".
There must be room for reason and reflection.
