rational capacity

Clearly he had some control or some rational capacity.

An individual’s rational capacity for judgment, then, will determine the goodness of the end towards which his or her action aims.

This view of reason also, he suggests, best accords with an evolutionary account of how our rational capacity developed.

For how much longer will man be a slave to his inferiority complex with regard to his own rational capacities?

Aquinas believed that rational capacity was a property of the soul alone, not of any bodily organ.

Aquinas defined a substantial form as that which makes X's matter constitute X, which in the case of a human being is rational capacity.

Our ability to act rationally depends not only on rational capacity, but also on our ability to suppress our intuitive brains when required.

Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative, which roots morality in humanity's rational capacity and asserts certain inviolable moral laws.

It taps into something people feel about human psychology, probably mistakenly: that somehow, when we're with other people, we lose our rational capacity or personal identity, which controls our behavior."

That is the special rational capacity that makes it possible for them to make reliable use of so much more scientific knowledge than they could realistically be expected to understand in a technical sense.

"People’s rational capacities, it seems, were blunted, and unregulated global capitalism was assumed to be the natural way of doing things, based on a set of rational market processes that would deliver results in everyone’s interest."

Fitch believes consolidation in the domestic airline industry could lay the foundation for more rational capacity decision-making in highly competitive domestic markets and should mitigate the impact of economic cycles on airline cash flow.

He exercised what Figes calls 'a cold and rational capacity to cut people out of his life' when they threatened his professional advancement, abandoning his wives and children when he felt it necessary to do so.

With this he defines what the biblical writers meant when they said 'man is made in the image of God', and that he has 'rational capacity; he has the unique ability to have a fellowship with God.

Aquinas's attribution of rational capacity to the soul allowed him to claim that disembodied souls could retain their rational capacity, although he was adamant that such a state was unnatural.

The rejection of censorship and paternalism is intended to provide the necessary social conditions for the achievement of knowledge and the greatest ability for the greatest number to develop and exercise their deliberative and rational capacities.

A related counterargument from Roderick Long is that a being can obtain moral agency by developing a rational capacity, and from there on has full moral agency even if this capacity is lost or diminished:

As Mill suggests in that text, utility is to be conceived in relation to humanity "as a progressive being", which includes the development and exercise of rational capacities as we strive to achieve a "higher mode of existence".

The solution to the problem in the rationalist tradition was to extend man’s reasoning powers in order to produce finer and finer descriptions of the natural world, descriptions whose precision could be enhanced by technological innovations (telescopes, microscopes, atom smashers, computers) that were themselves extensions of man’s rational capacities.

The credit profiles of TFT-LCD players will experience less volatility in profitability and cash flow in 2008 because of robust shipment growth and rational capacity expansion,' says Kevin Chang, associate director with Fitch's telecommunications, media and technology team, in a special report on the sector to be published today.

Janet Benshoff of the group's Reproductive Rights Project, complained that the A.C.L.U. was arguing in her cases that, for instance, teen-aged girls do have sufficient rational capacity to give "informed consent" to end a pregnancy - without the parental notification an increasing number of states now require to discourage teen-age abortions.

To this he answers "no" and states that 'man is a child of God' and raises the second basic point of the doctrine 'that man is a being of spirit', which is the 'thou has crowned him with glory and honour', and because of our 'rational capacity, man has a mind, man can reason.