But it is my rational side which is continuing these things.

But shutting down discussion simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.

This is not irrational behavior. It is reasonable behavior in the face of uncertainty.

And what I mean by that is that we can move from mindless consumption to mindful consumption. Right?

The range of opposing interpretations of religious texts is virtually unlimited, and disputes are seldom resolved by rational argument.

However, we were not mistaken when we argued that Communism was not a mere dead end of Western rationalism.

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But those ways of being rational are not independent of one another, so it's rational for a drug injector to share needles because of a stupid decision that's made by a politician, and it's rational for a politician to make that stupid decision because they're responding to what they think the voters want.

The so called Chicago School has mounted a robust defense of its rational expectations based approach, rejecting the notion that a rethink is required.

Thus was born the field of rational choice political economy, and a style of theorizing that many political scientists readily emulated.

Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

People who are sick want the drug to work, whereas people who watch ads assume that they are making up their own minds independently.

The eurozone s inflation target is not a magic number, and it is irrational to let it determine the overall macroeconomic framework.

They and other emerging market countries are victims of a rational flight to safety, exacerbated by an irrational panic.

The reasoning is practical, not ideological private providers are often available in places lacking public facilities.

This is a moment for rational thoughts over the irrational sense and brazen ideologies that give insurgents the conviction that they are fighting a just war.

It was nationalism that legitimated mobility the two of them together that produced madness and the new mental disease that expressed itself in suicide and irrational violence.

But rather than thinking rationally, the government only says we need to eradicate child labor.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation.

These phenomena were connected. It was nationalism that legitimated mobility the two of them together that produced madness and the new mental disease that expressed itself in suicide and irrational violence.

First, from the rational egoist point of view, it is rational to contribute to a pension scheme now, even though this is detrimental to one's present interests (which are to spend the money now).

He recently criticized Bolivian President Evo Morales s threats to seize foreign assets for his failure in this regard Radicalism is incompatible with the common sense needed from someone who governs.

Although we are capable of deciding what to do on the basis of rational thought processes, such decisions often prove less powerful than our instinctive feelings in moving us to action.

Erich Fromm, the late German psychologist and philosopher, once said that history is a graveyard of cultures that came to their catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned and rational voluntary reaction to challenges.

Drug design, sometimes referred to as rational drug design or simply rational design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target.

There is about 20 regions of the brain that have been modeled, simulated and tested the auditory cortex, regions of the visual cortex cerebellum, where we do our skill formation slices of the cerebral cortex, where we do our rational thinking.

According to the school of rational criticism, when existing theories can neither explain nor solve current problems, the formulation of new hypotheses and thus new scientific knowledge is, like innovation, more likely to flourish when constructive criticism is openly allowed and encouraged.

Some say that it was the disenchantment of the world the shift from a worldview that relied on prayer and the propitiation of spirits to one that relied on rational manipulation and management of nature and of society.

Thus, the emergence of neoclassical economics in the nineteenth century was very much influenced by Newtonian and Cartesian physics, moving from qualitative analysis to quantifying human behavior by assuming rational behavior and excluding uncertainty.

COPENHAGEN Discussions about global warming are marked by an increasing desire to stamp out impure thinking, to the point of questioning the value of democratic debate. But shutting down discussion simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.

Communism, we are told, was only one of the dead ends of Western rationalism therefore, it was sufficient to wait passively for it to fail.

Any sober Palestinian leadership must know by now that the rhetorical promise of a return to an abandoned house and to the olive tree is an irresponsible mirage that fundamentally contradicts the rationale for a separate Palestinian state.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation. Currently, two dates are circulating widely, 1907 and 1931.

Recent developments in the Netherlands have also shown that euthanasia is discussed more in the context of autonomy, control, and rational choice rather than of uncontrollable medical symptoms.

Fiscal union that is, more imposed unity may well be the rational answer to the current financial crisis, but it is a technocratic answer which would do nothing to make Europe more democratic, and would most likely provoke an extremist backlash.

While many factors contributed to America s destabilizing actions, a powerful one is anti intellectualism, exemplified recently by Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin s surging popularity.

A deal should be easily negotiable if both sides concentrate on their top priorities, while compromising on their secondary aims. Unfortunately, human fallibility seems to be working against such a rational solution.

The remarkable speed with which anti immigration positions buckled indicates that what most Americans want, above all, is a rational approach they want their political leaders to take responsibility for the issue, rather than running away from it.

Either intuitively or rationally, people feel that Rogozin, like Saakashvili, wants to assume the main post, is prepared to do so, and would start solving the state's territorial problems immediately.

The administration arguably devoted most of its counterterrorism efforts not to law enforcement operations, but into war in Muslim lands because it failed to keep a cool head in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington.

To believers in rational economic choice, of course, there is no waste. If people choose to drive enormous cars, they must derive some benefit from it and if switching to green energy makes that choice uneconomic, human welfare must suffer.

So now economists will have to accept the importance of irrational and often unpredictable behavior, face up to the often idiosyncratic imperfections of markets and accept that an elegant economic theory of everything is a long way off.

Individually rational behavior is often collectively suicidal.