Sentence examples for the rational over from inspiring English sources
There are, of course, strong elements of utilitarian and virtue theory in Locke's account too the productivity of labor and the privileging of what Locke calls 'the Industrious and the Rational' over the 'Covetousness of the Quarrelsom and Contentious' (ibid., II, para. 34).
Unlike post-Humean and post-Freudian views wherein considerable attention is focused upon the role of the non-rational influences that govern our thought, Augustine takes over the ancient Greek confidence in the superiority of the rational over the non-rational.
The rational took over from the fantasy and he started to find his way back.
The environment of the Ag+ in solution in many cases can be critically important for the rational control over surface and interfacial modifications of the molecular absorption process.
We will overcome the hurdles we currently face, it will not be easy, but as long as we don't cower, as long as we don't place our bets on any single person, but rather on a movement to reclaim truly American values, we will win by advancing the rational argument over the irrational rhetoric and, in turn, we will hold the moral high ground.
Everything I wrote was designed to appeal to the emotional over the rational, the knee-jerk over the considered, assumptions reinforced rather than challenged and all presented in an easily digestible style that celebrated its own triviality... Journalism is a form of storytelling, both being simulacra-building enterprises.
Water transformation plays a crucial role in the rational allocation and avoiding over-exploitation of natural resources.
The Royal Wedding was last weekend, and if you're anything like me it was probably an instructive lesson in how the political, or the rational, cannot hope to over-power the emotional.
And it is suggested that order and harmony is established in the soul when the rational aspect rules over the non-rational, yet the non-rational aspect is always capable of revolting against rationality and creating disorder and badness.
"Authentic verse music is that mystery which brims over the rational texture of the line".
He presented a new foundation for and extended the arithmetic of semi-simple algebras over the rational number field.
