Rationality as is meant in literal terms is the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic. This accounts to be one of the most important steps in bringing solutions to almost all of the crucial problems our modern society is facing these days. We need to take some revolutionary approach in the quality of thinking employed by both decision makers and by each of us in our daily affairs.
Swami Vivekananda is often named as the rational thinker of Modern India.
He firmly believed that Indians are very unique in this world. He was always after the vary basics of our existence i.e. “What is the truth?” and “What is beneficial to mankind?, answer to which we lent from the age old evergreen Vedas. This legacy has been continuing …show more content…
Obviously Rationality must be delineated as, how well one can accomplish ones goals, which again is no more a generalised state rather it becomes something community dependent.
Colloquially, ‘rational’ has several meanings. It can be based on some thinking process of evaluation of objective facts; a decision that maximizes personal benefit; or simply a decision that’s sensible. In this article, the first definition applies: Rational decisions are those grounded on solid statistics and objective facts, resulting in the same choices as would be computed by a logical robot. But they’re not necessarily the most sensible.
For say let us take that example I just promised narrating. I wish to expound that incident when M S Dhoni took the decision of handing over the ball to Joginder Sharma and that too on the last over of the 2007 ICC World Cup T20. That in no way was a rational step because previous statistics for Joginder don’t describe him to be a specialised person to handle the last over decider attempts. Now what our skipper did was he relied on his instincts rather than following the trend of going by ones name and
Swami Vivekananda is often named as the rational thinker of Modern India.
He firmly believed that Indians are very unique in this world. He was always after the vary basics of our existence i.e. “What is the truth?” and “What is beneficial to mankind?, answer to which we lent from the age old evergreen Vedas. This legacy has been continuing …show more content…
Obviously Rationality must be delineated as, how well one can accomplish ones goals, which again is no more a generalised state rather it becomes something community dependent.
Colloquially, ‘rational’ has several meanings. It can be based on some thinking process of evaluation of objective facts; a decision that maximizes personal benefit; or simply a decision that’s sensible. In this article, the first definition applies: Rational decisions are those grounded on solid statistics and objective facts, resulting in the same choices as would be computed by a logical robot. But they’re not necessarily the most sensible.
For say let us take that example I just promised narrating. I wish to expound that incident when M S Dhoni took the decision of handing over the ball to Joginder Sharma and that too on the last over of the 2007 ICC World Cup T20. That in no way was a rational step because previous statistics for Joginder don’t describe him to be a specialised person to handle the last over decider attempts. Now what our skipper did was he relied on his instincts rather than following the trend of going by ones name and