There is a sense in which theoretical reason itself inclines towards affirmation of God, because it must assume that reality is rationally knowable: "If one wishes to achieve systematic knowledge of the world, he ought to regard it as if it were created by a supreme reason".
Augustine argues in his work on free will that the eternal law "is called supreme reason, which must always be obeyed, and through it the evil deserve an unhappy life and the good a blessed life; and through this law we have derived temporal laws rightly constructed and correctly emended".
I've kept it to myself, knowing that in a conversation with loved ones about risk, emotions reign supreme over reason.
Nonetheless, the supreme court reasoned that the VRA is no longer as necessary as it once was, because the entire United States, including the southern half, has made progress toward racial equality.
On appeal, the supreme court reasoned the council had acted within its procedures to reconsider and ultimately reject the agreement.
It follows, therefore, that the Categorical Imperative is the supreme principle of reason. That the Categorical Imperative is the supreme principle of reason is, to be sure, a conclusion that Kant never states as such.
During a time of enormous upheaval, Jeremy was a supreme voice of reason, of compassion, of wisdom and of knowledge.
The philosophes, building on Locke and others and embracing many and varied currents of thought with a common supreme faith in reason, vigorously attacked religious and scientific dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and social and economic restraints.
The need to engineer a well-attended election may be the supreme leader's reason for tacitly supporting Jalili, if only to energise the masses against his fundamentalist worldview, analysts say.
The real arrogance comes in clinging stubbornly to the belief in the supreme powers of reason.
Kant has argued that the Categorical Imperative is the supreme principle of practical reason, and that practical reason has primacy over theoretical reason.
