rational faculties

All children are born with rational faculties, which want only development.

But why do their rational faculties freeze at this point?

I can see I've just about overloaded your rational faculties.

It trains the rational faculties, to observe and to make classifications.

It all boils down to careful scrutiny of what you're doing, your rational faculties being brought into play.

The vegetative, sensitive, and rational faculties are all performed by this single entity.

Designed for the extraordinarily headstrong children whose will had outpaced the development of their rational faculties.

Individuals who have this experience do not stand outside the world of objects, observing, exercising rational faculties and maintaining a stable character.

"Can even that sensitive spirit in brutes which exercises memory, one of the rational faculties, die and become nothing?"

It does not seek to control his mind but leaves him free to use his rational faculties to the best of his ability.

Essential as all these disciplines are to the profession of arms, none of them tends to stimulate the rational faculties.

But perhaps because I had just completed graduate work in the social sciences, my rational faculties simply dismissed the idea as more quaint than believable.

Fourthly, moral, aesthetic and rational faculties of man endorse the possibility of life after death.

But a police bullet in the brain has diminished Adams rational faculties perfectly, and it is no longer necessary to provide illusions for his guidance.

One possible hypothesis is that our conceptual biases are adaptive, as are our rational faculties.

Bradley's last two years of life were clouded by a melancholy depression of spirits, due to an apprehension that he should survive his rational faculties.

Pomeroy's case was dismissed, but Davenport was declared to be under "enthusiastical impressions and impulses, and thereby disturbed in the rational faculties of his mind."

Sufi poetry, including especially Rumi's Mathnaví, grapples with the opposition between human reason, or the limited rational faculties ('aql), and love ('eshq).

Carl Jung contrasted the critical and rational faculties of logos with the emotional, non-reason oriented and mythical elements of eros.

Famously, he stated that all men are intellectuals, in that all have intellectual and rational faculties, but not all men have the social function of intellectuals.

Tim Farns­worth is a successful trial attorney, the kind of compulsive overachiever who takes pride in his 14-hour workdays, his knowledge of the law and the power of his rational faculties.

In the play, Mephistopheles represents the rational faculties which can carry out the desires of Faust, but the dynamics of Faust's wishes all come from Faust's own life.

He saw the college to be a true expression of liberal education as it fostered rational faculties and self-criticism, and noted the college's place in fighting norms on a much larger timescale.

MacDonald describes Ogilvie's Essay as "a pastoral prose poem, through which we can realise this beautiful world, with its ample provision for satisfying man's instinctive and rational faculties of enjoyment."

Unlike some phyles, which propagate through conversion or through indiscriminate exploitation of the natural biological capacity that is shared, for better or worse, by all persons, we appeal to the rational faculties.