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For Kant, who struggled to re-define ethics in a new era of market societies, our duty can and must be deduced from our capacity for rationality.
Practical reasoning is all it takes: A world where everyone lies is one in which human rationality, which depends entirely on language, dies.
Science and rationality threaten such conformism, because they encourage skepticism, free inquiry, and testing of the traditional perspectives that the BJP is so eager to entrench.
Under Stalin, enthusiastic self-sacrifice and scientific rationality were promoted as ideals.
Clearly, Trump is not relying on the rationality of deterrence, as one would have expected from the leader of the last remaining superpower.
What is needed is level-headedness, rationality, and patient diplomacy that is not based on dangerous and fanciful threats of force.
The Enlightenment idea that our System-II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable choices.
Nor can something like self-awareness or rationality warrant greater protection for the fetus than for, say, a cow, because the fetus has mental capacities that are inferior to those of cows.
But why should a being’s potential to become rationally self-aware make it wrong to end its life before it actually has the capacity for rationality or self-awareness?
Changing people’s behavior begins with an understanding of our cultural nature, not our rationality.
Finally, humans lack a certain degree of rationality, making us terrible at designing effective institutions and organizations – at least for now.
Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.
This trend accelerated with the spread of Enlightenment humanist ideals based on fundamental human equality and the application of rationality to human affairs.
It is driven by the extreme Cartesian rationality, verging on the absurd, of a country whose citizens continue to view their state in the same way that adolescents view their parents.
Peace, and the safety of millions of Americans, would then depend on the prudence and rationality of North Korea’s 33-year-old dictator, Kim Jong-un, a young man with a taste for grotesque executions of family members and close associates.
Kerry embodies rationality and Bush morality.
Attempts to bring economic rationality and equity to American medicine date back to immediately after World War II, when President Harry Truman's proposal for establishing a national health insurance system brought cries of "socialized medicine" and quick defeat in Congress.
A warning against the arrogance of rationality is at the same time a warning against the arrogance of social engineers -- those who believe that a freer and happier life for mankind can be secured solely by devising scientific plans for it from above.
But there is another explanation, one that is fully consistent with rationality and self-interest.
Two centuries after visions of social rationality flowered in Enlightenment thinking, the project suddenly seemed, at least superficially, to be inescapably doomed.
He wanted to extend the idea of economic rationality to include behavior in the face of radical uncertainty, when we face not just unknowns, but unknowable unknowns.
If we regard human rights as something possessed by all human beings, no matter how limited their intellectual or emotional capacities may be, how can we deny similar rights to great apes, who clearly surpass some human beings in their rationality, self-awareness, and emotional bonds with others?
Both disregard the fact that rationality depends as much on individuals’ imperfect understandings of history and society as on their motivation.
But will cool rationality be enough to create a European security pillar within the context of the Alliance?
The late Rudiger Dornbusch - who used to write this column - used to say that unsustainable situations lasted longer than economists who believed in market rationality and equilibrium could imagine possible.
Likewise, a country’s prosperity can be measured properly only by including elements of moral philosophy and sociology, which fall outside of the boundaries of wealth creation and individual rationality that form the domain of conventional macroeconomic analysis.
One strategy that combines rationality with the gradualism needed to overcome political resistance would be to increase the EU budget steadily, so that it can ultimately play a macroeconomic role, promoting stability and reinforcing cohesion within the eurozone.
But this assumes perfect rationality.
So these first reformers sought to engage with the ideas that they saw emerging from Europe: rationality, tolerance and ethically determined behavior.
It is tempting to dismiss this attitude as a triumph of passion over rationality.
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