And yet this is too passive a picture of
Reason. Reasoning and deliberation 'are mental activities we can decide on' and this is a practical matter, of our conduct as deliberators (97).
Joseph Raz: From Normativity to Responsibility
In Question 90, we learn that for Aquinas, "[1]aw is a rule and measure of acts" and "something pertaining to
reason" which directs actions to the end.
Aquinas on natural law and the question of a Kantian misreading
They argued that the most compelling evidence demonstrates
reason is not in the service of truth, but instead demonstrates that
reason aids in the search for arguments to support one's belief.
Forum: argument scholars respond to Mercier and Sperber's argumentative theory of human reason: introduction
Thus, it is assumed that there is no moral law whose truthfulness is guaranteed by
reason. In short, faith and morality lie outside the realm of
reason.
Secularism and Islam: an unacknowledged kinship
In August, he talked with
reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie about the economic, cultural, and political implications of the Long Tail.
Welcome to Niche Nation: Long Tail author and Wired editor Chris Anderson on infinite markets, the death of the Top 40, and the birth of personalized politics
However, not everyone agrees that the fundamental constitutional issues should be debated and decided by appeal only to
reason. For example, Nicholas Wolterstorff maintains that the separation of public civic life from private religious life discriminates against religious believers by requiring them to act politically while denying or ignoring their religious beliefs, and that setting their religious beliefs aside in such circumstances might very well be contrary to or a violation of those religious beliefs.
Religion and liberal democracy
The spouse establishes that he or she did not know, and had no
reason to know, of the item of community income; and
Treatment of community income for spouses living apart
We would remind whoever we can that President Polk lied to the nation about the
reason for going to war with Mexico in 1846.
America's blinders
One of the first Romantic poets and playwrights, Kleist has come to be regarded as the prototypical expressionist and existentialist, not to say mad modern genius, that is, an artist whose works resonate with unresolved conflicts--especially between restrained
reason and unrepressed emotion.
Frank Stella: Jacobson Howard
Reason to quit: Torn ACL, low-carb diet makes you tired all the time
Thrashing through the ages
No, to open minds and wallets and have prospects eagerly buy, The most persuasive words in advertising are simply,
REASON WHY.
The most persuasive tool in advertising and how to use it
By contrast, no more than 38% of sexually experienced males in either grade selected any single
reason. The most common
reasons they cited were fear of STDs (34% of ninth graders and 38% of 12th graders) and parental disapproval (36% and 33%, respectively).
Teenagers who abstain from sex cite similar reasons regardless of whether they have ever had intercourse
The tradition of political philosophy that finds community resting on constitutional interpretations of common law or "
reason" itself has, of course, a long history in, particularly, the Anglo-Saxon countries.
Community as event (1)
These results highlight the need to ensure that science classrooms are environments in which intuition and emotion in addition to
reason are valued.
Patterns of Informal Reasoning in the Context of Socioscientific Decision-Making
Keywords: Epistemology; metaphysics; experimentation;
reason; secularism; induction; education; philosophy; positivism; revelation; hearing; sight; intuition; imitation; dictatorship; modernity; the West.
Islam, rationality and science