Dostoevsky was skeptical of western philosophical ideologies such as utilitarianism and political systems such as socialism or democracy that made rational claims about human behavior.
At the other pole the viewer is confronted by a world that is completely defined and minutely depicted but that makes no rational sense: fully recognizable, realistically painted images are removed from their normal contexts and reassembled within an ambiguous, paradoxical, or shocking framework.
Given the disaster that is America's excursion in Iraq, that cynicism makes rational sense.
Alternatively, it may be that people in the state of nature are fully rational, but are trapped in a situation that makes it individually rational for each to act in a way that is sub-optimal for all, perhaps finding themselves in the familiar 'prisoner's dilemma' of game theory.
Combined experimental and computational studies of lipid membranes and liposomes, with the aim to attain mechanistic understanding, result in a synergy that makes possible the rational design of liposomal drug delivery system (LDS) based therapies.
Some hold that morality applies only to those rational beings that have those features of human beings that make it rational for all of them to endorse morality, viz., fallibility and vulnerability.
He may not in the end wish to veto a measure that makes the system more rational and cost-effective.
In each episode one person won a contest and could not be voted out in that round; so-called immunity was the wild card that made every rational prediction moot.
But, the special conditions that make it rational to have coherent betting quotients, so as to avoid a sure loss, are not met in general.
It provides the radical right "evidence" to engineer fear of "socialism" and "a government takeover" that make seemingly rational people scream for the government to "stay out of Medicare." It allows irrational people, e.g., Sarah, with apparent backing from Newtie, to proclaim that the government is setting up "death panels".
