Rationality

The separation between spirit and nature is Enlightenment’s existence. Without this split, the bourgeois economy would collapse, along with its hierarchy and division of labor; thus, the Enlightenment would cease to exist. Along with its existence, the bourgeois economy’s rationale may fall to unreason, to the mad. Enlightenment seeks to maintain a strong hold upon reason with knowledge, only by dispelling unreason. Reason is obtained through subjugation, that of the rational and irrational,…

The Michigan model of voter choice most prominently featured in the book The American Voter emphasises the role that social identity plays on our decisions made at the ballot box which we gain from our environment around us such as our parents’ political views. In this essay, I, will show why the Michigan model of voting offers an inadequate explanation for the way people vote and why I believe that the rational choice theory of voting specifically the altruistic theory of voting with a focus on…

Philosophy, the hard sciences, and Christianity would all be unimaginably different, had it not been for The Enlightenment. Around the 18th century, The Enlightenment was well underway, as well as new ideas and concepts that came along with it. However, with new theories and understandings, came criticism of the ones already widely accepted. Amidst the search for reason within religion, Enlightenment thinkers sought out a better understanding of their faith and strongly encouraged others to…

to plan attacks and to already understand how their enemies will react to different situations. Overall, empathizing with your enemy will allow soldiers to understand their enemies to help them be informed about what they are fighting against. Rationality will not save us Robert S. McNamara says that being rational will not stop two countries from going to war. During the cold war, all of the leaders were rational but they still came very close to war. He repeatedly says that ‘it was luck…

Dionysus, rationale’s attempt to dismiss insanity, is a theme that is continuously explored up to modern times, with differing opinions on which power should be dominant. The difference between order and chaos can be seen in the contrast between rationality and harmony associated with Apollo and animalistic madness associated with Dionysus. Where the god Apollo may conjure up images of idyllic lyre-playing, Dionysus’s Roman form has given name to “an occasion of wild and drunken revelry”,…

Ever since I got the opportunity to choose my theology project topic, “ Faith and Reason: Why Science and Catholicism are made for each other? Today many claim that the Church is anti-science, or that science is the “new religion” and Catholicism is no longer relevant. Explore the history of both the Church and science, and the history of these accusations. Explain why both need each other, ” I was excited for this project to begin. One thing I did not realize though was how extensive it was…

“The Rationality of Rage,” the article written by Matthew Hutson discusses how anger, in the right context, benefits people in three points: by using anger to win a negotiation, by using only real anger, and by directing anger at an object/offer and not a person. Starting off, anger produces such a bright inner flame that just may help people win a confrontation. Some people find it easier to win a confrontational negotiation when they anger themselves. (Page 2 Paragraph 4,5) The summarized…

But even more crucially, plot epitomizes the rationality of tragic mimesis. Plot is not simply a mimesis of action but of action ordered and structured to achieve certain ends. Unlike the theatrical staging associated with spectacle, which Aristotle sees as irrational, plot is governed by reason. The incidents in a tragic plot should be unified by probability and necessity. Such unity does not 40 FOUNDATIONS come from the focus on a single character, since an individual’s life may…

needs to completely follow its own laws and practices as stated,” Formal legal rationality is a measure of legiti-mate rule, and deviations from this standard run the risk of destroying the legitimacy of the state” (536). “Formal legal rationality” means in the article that laws need to make sense and be fair for the state to be legitimate. Public interest law movements are groups of lawyers who fight for the rationality of the laws and question the legitimacy of the system. They work outside…

(2002) as the scientifically rationality approach and the socially rationality approach. Accordingly, the EU practices the socially rationality approach where science is just one facet of the society, and that society also consists of other stakeholders that should be a part of the decision process. Thus, science has an informative role…