Search results for "Rational" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • as deriving from the respect which we owe to rational agents in virtue of their rationality. Other deontologists such as W.D. Ross, while recognizing ...
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  • philosophy, with its emphasis on rational order, very much to his ... to be to show Adams as an example of the rational Enlightenment leader, continuing ...
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  • in order to recognize what is rational in the real. Furthermore, according to Hegel, only what is recognized as rational is real. This idealist ...
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  • Buddhism. Modernist ethics presupposed the rational individual as the primary agent of moral discourse. Deep Ecology problematizes both primacy of reason ...
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  • Commerce Clause if those activities would have any rational effect on interstate commerce. Finally, the 10th Amendment "is but a truism" U.S ...
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  • derive from one’s role in the community of rational moral agents, and in this sense, these duties are role related responsibilities of a certain sort ...
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  • that communal ownership of resources precludes rational economic planning. They argued that socialism prevents the effective use of knowledge concerning ...
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  • due to God. Lust prevents clarity of thought and rational behavior. ===Gluttony (Latin, gula)=== Gluttony (waste, overindulgence) —Thoughtless ...
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  • and based on feelings (the child) rather than rational thought (the adult). More generally it refers to art that is expressive of intense emotion ...
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  • Merovingian law was not universal law based on rational equity, generally applicable to all, as Roman law; it was applied to each man according ...
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  • views of love, believing them to be far more rational and ultimately far more interesting than the high-flung spirituality of Dante and Petrarch, which ...
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  • quot;all triangles have three angles"). All rational statements that assert a factual claim about the universe which begin with the statement "I ...
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  • to its own distinct laws, and therefore rational laws or fiats could not be imposed at all from a higher, transcendent sphere; this placed him ...
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  • imperative—and hence applicable to all rational agents. Utilitarianism and Kantianism are both forms of monism, the view that there is ultimately ...
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  • ideas permeate his writings in a rational and philosophic tone. His main kabbalistic influences appear to have been the Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah ...
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  • consumerism, making individuals more rational and society more harmonious. In short, the American Arts and Crafts Movement was the aesthetic ...
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  • :Rich, original, rash and rational :Stands the monument ogdenational!C. Gerald Fraser, "New & Noteworthy," The New York Times, July ...
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  • many writings promoting liberal, rational interpretations of Islamic ... *Engineer, Asghar Ali. Rational Approach to Islam. Delhi: Gyan Publishing ...
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  • the legends sought to provide a rational explanation for the seemingly irrational self-sacrificing behavior of the Nizari fida’is; as such ...
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  • those concerning religious faith) escaped rational conceptualization. Moreover ... not by an intellectual assent to a rational God, but through an immediate ...
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