Rational Quotes - Page 24

• In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Personality, Soul

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• Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

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  Ram Dass

  Mind, Use

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• In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

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  Ram Dass

  Distance, Perspective, Mind

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Tests, Accidents

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• Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

  Phillip Lopate

  Difficult, Hedonism, Response

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• I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.

  Marty Nemko

  Believe, Emotional, Ideas

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• In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Issues, Long

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Planning, Unusual

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Winning, People, Sides

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• It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Skills, People, Trying

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• What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Looks, Incentives, Resistance

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• For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian adopts) and about which actions or moral rules would contribute to maximizing the good. For the rational intuitionist, there are truths about which actions should be done and not done.

  Allen W. Wood

  Done, Maximizing, Matter

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• If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Decision, Use

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• There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Essence

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• If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

  Allen W. Wood

  Iron, Feelings, Agents

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• What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Law, Acting

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• Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Needs, Levels

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• One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.

  Allen W. Wood

  Facts, Action, Judgment

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• It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, Mean, Simple

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• Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

  Allen W. Wood

  Biblical, Theologian

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• Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

  Allen W. Wood

  Tradition, Metaphysical, Sympathetic

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• Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and Baumgarten was always double-edged. He did see them as pseudo-sciences but also valued their doctrinal value and especially their regulative value for the empirical sciences. Like his views about religion, I don't think any of this is any longer viable in its original form.

  Allen W. Wood

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Errors, Objectifying, Action

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• It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

  Allen W. Wood

  Communication, Partners, Investigation

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• It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.

  Allen W. Wood

  Nice, Philosophy, Communication

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