Example sentences of "human reason " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the articles is about the abstract artist Sol LeWitt , who was in Krauss 's opinion misinterpreted by three critics as serving ‘ as triumphant illustration of the powers of human reason . |
| 2 | They are largely accessible to human reason … |
| 3 | He claims that Conservatism is ‘ not an idea , still less is it a system of ideas ’ and that the Conservative tradition is marked by ‘ scepticism , a sense of the limitations of human reason , a rejection of abstraction or abstract doctrines , a distrust of systems and a belief in the importance of experience and circumstances ’ . |
| 4 | But those in this tradition wildly overestimated the friendliness towards revelation that human reason would feel , once freed from the shackles of a state compulsion to believe . |
| 5 | The power of human reason must take precedence over all presumption of ‘ truth ’ . |
| 6 | It is open to human reason and , to a limited extent , to human control . |
| 7 | Mystery is beyond human reason , but it is not against reason . |
| 8 | An area of mystery is rational to God , but faith must suspend judgement and not press human reason to answer questions when it has insufficient information . |
| 9 | It is his contention rather that there can be no proofs for God 's existence which are acceptable to human reason since God is beyond reason . |
| 10 | It takes no moralising stance , but is imbued with a generous and entirely human reason . |
| 11 | But the pay-off line of both the book A Brief History of Time , and Errol Morris ' film of the same title , is that ‘ the ultimate triumph of human reason ’ would be to ‘ know the mind of God ’ . |
| 12 | For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history . |
| 13 | This is in no sense an attempt to deny the importance of church tradition or the use of human reason . |
| 14 | The Bible is treated primarily as a human product ; the world is explored by human investigation , and only what can be established rationally and scientifically is to be believed ; religion itself must be validated by reference to human experience , human values and human reason . |
| 15 | Still in the eighteenth century , however , the rather confident and aggressive forces of rationalism were to be shaken into a more humble estimate of the power of human reason itself . |
| 16 | This general modesty about the rights and powers of human reason might not appear a very dangerous threat to natural theology , but the way in which Hume sharpened and applied it was to have a quite shattering impact . |
| 17 | Following Hume , Kant subjected human reason to an analysis even more radical and far-reaching . |
| 18 | And its implication for the conduct of trials in ecclesiastical courts was that the processes of human inquest could yield objective facts which human reason was competent to judge . |
| 19 | And if human reason had been impaired by the Fall , what guarantee was there that one could think God 's thoughts after Him ? |
| 20 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 21 | He attacked the dominance of formal logic because it reflected a misplaced confidence in the powers of human reason . |
| 22 | Classicism grew out of the Enlightenment , the eighteenth-century philosophical movement which stressed the importance of human reason and which undertook the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions . |
| 23 | If language is , in a certain sense , a necessary component of human reason ( though ordinary languages are usually very inadequate for the purpose ) , it is also a necessary component of human art . |
| 24 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 25 | The United States Constitution is considered by Americans to embody the principles of a higher law , to constitute " in fact imperfect man 's most perfect rendering of what Blackstone saluted as " the eternal immutable laws of good and evil , to which the creator himself in all his dispensations conforms : and which he has enabled human reason to discover , so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions . " |