Sentence examples for we are rational from inspiring English sources

There's one thing we do know in the original position, however: that we are human and that we are rational (Rawls's assumption is that someone acting rationally in the original position will choose the fairest arrangement possible — just as we'd cut a cake into equal slices if we didn't know which piece we'd end up with).

We think we are rational beings, but we are not.

We are rational rather than extremist, but don't mistake that for lack of passion".

Yet he reassures her: "We are rational nineteenth-century beings, we might leave the coup de foudre to the weavers of Romances".

Patrick Casey, Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar-General of Westminster: "We are rational beings; we are not animals; this is not the farmyard".

The idea of shops offering us 101 kinds of muesli is that we are rational utility maximisers who have the time and temperaments to make sense of endless options.

We want to believe we're rational, but reason turns out to be the ex post facto way we rationalize what our emotions already want to believe.

They thought we were rational sophisticates who could defer gratification.

"If we're rational, [social scientists] tell us, added options can only make us better off as a society.

In his view, if we were rational and free from such constraints, we would always enact efficient solutions.

All diet advice can be rendered in four words, "Eat less, move more", which would work if we were rational beings but our relationship to food is emotional.