Sentence examples for western reason from inspiring English sources

Western science and Western reason have taken on the aspect of some kind of divinity, unthinkable in the rational West".

MIT scholar's book illuminates how magic became a tool for Western "reason" — and helped form the field of anthropology.

Heidegger argued that to neglect our defining moods and actions, as the tradition of Western reason had done, was to fall into a type of inauthentic, perfunctory existence.

The argument here is primarily genealogical (thus based on a story of historical origin and development) and not grounded in social science; it is a reconstruction of the history of Western reason or of liberalism in which calculative, instrumental reason drives out the utopian content of universal solidarity.

While the proposed union may add to consumer fears that the airline industry eventually will merge itself into a handful of large, unresponsive carriers, employees of Delta and Western had reason for cheer.

You might imagine the multiplication of such incidents and the advance of fundamentalist groups in Syria would give western governments reason to pause before bolstering their support for the rebels.

Igor Luksic, Montenegro's, foreign minister had been in Berlin a few days earlier visiting the European Affairs committee of the German lower chamber, the Bundestag, which now holds a key to the future of the western Balkans.The reason for this is that due to changes in German legislation in 2009, the Bundestag must be consulted on matters concerning EU enlargement.

Respondents were asked questions about their use of CAM in the past 12 months, out-of-pocket expenditures on CAM and orthodox Western medicine, reasons for the use of CAM and so on, as well as general socio-demographics.

Such is the Western tradition: argument, reason, civil laws trumping religious ones.

Through its embrace of instrumental reason, Western philosophy displays a destructive and objectifying "will to domination".

One reason, Western diplomats said, was the belief that the court had interfered too much with the executive branch.