Search results for "Rational" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ethics. Choice can be defined as the rational process of deliberation directed ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- The essence of a human being is “a rational animal.” ... is considered as an “object” of rational thought, the person is approached ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- purpose, and "arbitrary" or rational will, which is based on ... can be based on anything other than rational self-interest. Despite this ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- that people do not always behave in a rational, calculated way, and that ... #039;s view of human nature as one of rational self-interest. He believed ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 18:46, 24 May 2024
- stressed the unique and essentially non-rational nature of religious reality ... epitome of religion’s irrational and rational sides respectively in Otto’s ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- essence of the primitive mind, whereas rational thinking, based on logic ... of the "primitive mind" and rational thinking which is the hallmark ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- The second type of authority is Rational-legal authority. It is that ... to both the validity of traditional and rational-legal authority, and followers ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- principles that could be adopted by all rational agents. ... whatever they might be, bind us as rational moral agents. ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- == Other rational numbers == Any rational number that cannot be expressed as a decimal fraction ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- an American psychologist who developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ... healthy thinking, which he defined as rational thought unadulterated by ...22 KB (3,239 words) - 19:27, 15 March 2024
- can serve one’s own good. Similarly, rational egoism maintains that, in ... elegant solution, however, is to move to rational egoism, which might provide ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- change and becoming happier and more rational as human beings: art of man is the expression of his rational and disciplined delight ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- memory). Above the sensitive soul is the rational soul, which defines the ... then, are the spiritual beings of Ideas, rational human beings, sensible animals ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 19:30, 24 May 2024
- notion is that an irrational number divides the rational numbers into two classes, with all the members of one class (upper) being strictly greater ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- of reason, there are, ironically, several rational arguments made in favor ... Specifically, fideism teaches that rational or scientific arguments ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- proved Hobhouse to be overly optimistic. Rational advances and external developments ... Theory of the State (1918), The Rational Good (1921), The Elements ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- the particular fraction. Fractions are rational numbers, which means that ... A vulgar fraction (or common fraction) is a rational number written ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- strengths and weaknesses of the use of rational-choice theory in interpreting ... working on mathematical sociology and rational-choice theory. ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- autonomy refers to the capacity of a rational individual to make informed ... Autonomous moral principles are laws which we, as rational beings ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- truths are only discoverable by a non-rational, quasi-sensory capacity ... and feeling, as opposed to reason or rational intuition. While therefore ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- This standard of rational persuasion is not as well-defined as it in the case of deductive arguments. In many cases it is clear that an argument ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- Anticlaudianus, a didactic poem giving rational support to the tenets of ... Ars Fidei Catholicæ, a refutation, on rational grounds, of the errors of ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- are here divided into two camps: rational intuitionists and perceptual ... In contrast with rational intuitionism, perceptual intuitionism holds ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- with that of a mother, with no purely rational measure to decide which is preferable. Another example occurs in environmental ethics, when the ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- :existing fully as God, and fully as man with a rational soul and ... :For as the rational soul and body are one person, so the one Christ ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- an informal argument is fallacious, its rational persuasive power is greatly ... In an appeal to emotion, one presents an emotional, rather than rational ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- of his day. Shestov rejected any rational basis for God. He abhored ... and not comprehensible through logical or rational inquiry. Shestov maintains ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Ancient Greek philosophers pursued the ultimate rational principle ... sphere of morality. Human beings have a rational reason to believe in them ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- allow for an afterlife of the individual rational soul, to carry responsibility ... be the fullest actualization of a person as a rational being. ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- and "reason." It indicates a rational explanation in contrast ... of this, is also open to all that is truly rational. ZENIT-The World ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- kind of monad, termed a dominant, or rational, monad, which included consciousness ... ideas which revived an interest in rational metaphysics and laying the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- such entities as zero, negative numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers ... ===Rational numbers=== A rational number is a number that can be expressed ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- that the universe existed according to a rational and purposeful order (a ... that the universe existed according to a rational and purposeful order (a ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- of conduct that would be accepted by all rational people under certain idealized ... of morality--according to which all rational agents ought to follow the ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- as "Zu rate." Zu rate is a best rational approximation to π, and ... The next "best rational approximation" to π is \frac{52163}{16604} ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- The surgical procedures in the papyrus were quite rational given the time period (Rutkow 1988), and the use of magic for treatment is resorted ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts of humanity to find meaning or rational explanation in the universe ultimately ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- more broadly to reason or “the rational.”) Although logic is an ... thinking which is most essential to human rational thinking as a type of associative ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- and cognitive processes of making rational human choices: decisions. related, or poorly detailed. The task of rational decision-making, said Simon ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- searches and seizures; and so on. It is a rational continuum which, broadly ... between members of the same sex. Using rational basis review, the Court ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 05:50, 25 February 2023
- of the character and position of rational agents in the universe. He argues that all that is seen in nature is framed so as to avoid and reject ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Averroists and Alexandrists about the rational soul of man were denounced ... in which he strove to establish on rational grounds that all miraculous ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- precepts could be subjected to rational proof, but he did not lose ... precepts could be subjected to rational proof, but he did not lose ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- in the 1950s. He called his approach Rational Therapy (RT) at first, then ... # Rational disputation of ATs with the Socratic method # Development ...25 KB (3,498 words) - 17:04, 20 March 2024
- terms, considering it to be a more rational and efficient form of organization ... Weber saw bureaucracy as a system of control based on rational rules ...17 KB (2,464 words) - 18:44, 22 November 2023
- desire, and the realization that a truly rational being only desires goodness ... world, in order to fulfill the role of a rational, sociable being. Our actions ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- that criminal justice should conform to rational principles. ... * Keel, Robert. [http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/200/ratchoc.html Rational ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- to develop human society based on our rational faculty, and thus free people ... possibility of reason, emancipation, and rational-critical communication embedded ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- in that existence or being exceeds all rational conceptions and objective ... the most certain and primary reality is rational consciousness. Descartes ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
