Rationality

characteristic that Alan Chalmers, and scientists in general, share about science is rationality – without rationality all that is left is science fiction. In accordance with the quote by Chalmers and his assumption that inductivity leads to certainties, a common rebuttal that demonstrates said scrutiny is that induction itself is irrational (proof shown by Hume’s Problem of Induction). One attempt to salvage the rationality of the scientific method was by Karl R. Popper with the…

action that fails to account the patients desires would infringe their autonomy. This universalizes the maxim and passes the test. Prior to Freda’s catatonic state, she communicates her wishes of not wanting a feeding tube. At this time, Freda’s rationality remains, thus making her an equal member who can rightfully determine her own ends and goals. The means as an end formulation states that we treat each rational creature with equal dignity and worth, and that we cannot treat others as a…

Prince-Ramus discussed few ideas in his presentation about the thinking of the “rapid fire". I definitely think the library design fascinating and interesting; with its hyper rational process is takes rationality to an absurd level with regard to something people would not expect as being the result of rationality. I am unfamiliar with architecture as well as the difference between modernism and postmodernism, but I think it is a powerful talk on which he discussed about the role of the…

As a young child, we all have perceptions of what violence may be, whether our first association was through a movie, a book we read, or we witness it first hand. But even as a child we may not completely grasp the idea of what it is, or what is means. As a child it may begin with something we see that scares us, perhaps we caught a glimpse of the movie “Chucky” our parents were watching one night and that was our first experience with it. Or perhaps we saw others hurting someone and the unknown…

of forecasting and to consider the possible risks or uncertainties that they may encounter in handling such business. Bounded Rationality According to Herbert Simon, as mentioned in the Satisficing Behavior of International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2008), “satisficing behavior is to describe human choice among alternative behaviors recognizing bounded rationality”, wherein it particularly explains that the human brain information-processing capacity cannot anticipate all…

The trend of McDonaldization in society is characterized by its progression towards an increasingly rationalization of work. The key elements of rationality as outlined by George Ritzer are “efficiency, predictability, calculability, substitution of nonhuman for human technology, and control over uncertainty” (Ritzer 1983). In modern western society, the rationalization of society can be seen most evidently in the fast food industry, which led to the name McDonaldization. In the following essay,…

There exists between Medea and the Greek society a fundamental disjunction in the beliefs that they maintain throughout the entirety of the play. The state of Corinth concerns itself with preserving a façade of orderliness derived from rationality and order; on the contrary, Medea, “who left a barbarous land to become a resident of Hellas” is the embodiment of excess that the civilised world fears, ruled by passionate anger in her lust for revenge. She is forthright in that the emotions in…

Rationalization refers to the overall historical process where reality is, ‘increasingly mastered by calculation, scientific knowledge, and rational action’ (Morrison, 2006, p. 285). In contrast, rationality is a term Weber used to refer to ‘the capacity of social action to be subject to calculation, of the means and ends of action by taking up a methodical orientation to reality’ (Morrison, 2006, p. 285). Weber believed the rationalization process…

In the work, of Frederick
Douglass, Learning to Read and Write, not only the importance, of reading and writing has been emphasized, but also the process of enlightenment, and the ability to think on different lines, after learning how to read and write. The new information translated into knowledge, by the slave, which gave him new perspective and helped him re-understand, more appropriately, new realities, which he never fully understood before. Generally, we see no difference between…

relationship of power and status that aren’t able to be defined as purely material or economic in nature. Several concepts claimed by Weber are particularly important to a conflict theorist’s analysis of what is considered a crime. One of these is formal rationality, or the view that the modern Western orientation towards the power of reason and efficiency has produced a situation where the means to achieve this reason are separated from the ends. Simplifying the statement above, you have to…