1) Reason and Science: I found it interesting Paul Ryan said he came to his decision to be severely "pro-life," through reason and science.
Legislatures act through power; courts act through reason.
Religious education and knowledge should be acquired through reason, logic and sound argument.
Logic and nature, ethics and politics, even art, music and literature must be justified through reason.
China is a "huge country.... So, therefore, the best way to deal with China is not confrontation but through reason".
It accurately predicted the eruption, broadcast the warning clearly and yet could not persuade people to leave through reason alone.
According to Spinoza, the true order and connection of ideas is known not through experience and habit, but through reason.
Similarly, scholars like St. Thomas Aquinas and Moses Maimonides encountered God through reason rather than through ecstasy.
Many of those who believe that morality is independent of religion have claimed that moral truths can be adequately discerned through reason, conscience, or moral intuition.
Their ways of life and their imaginings and beliefs consist of layers of darkness that cannot be known through reason alone.
Valla then went on to attack stoicism, the philosophy of the control of the emotions through reason and its advocacy of a simple life.
