Human Behavior and Sociology 
.... He described four Ideal Types of behavior:
rational means to
rational ends;
rational means to irrational ends; guided by emotion; and guided by custom or habit ....
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Psychology and Sociology
.... is not simply a
rational analysis of the situation, as the cognitive psychologist would use, for example, but rather focuses on non-
rational means, such a slips ....
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Niccolo Machiavelli's Play "Mandragola"
.... they needed to. Otherwise, they were advised by Machiavelli to rule by wisdom and persuasion by
rational means. Machiavelli`s point ....
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Metaphysics & Epistemology
.... We could only evaluate them through
rational means such as logic or analogy, and there is no evidence that such an approach is more than an exercise in logic ....
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Memo on Conditional Use Permit This memora
.... Furthermore, the zoning was a
rational means of effecting the goals of controlling population density, noise, traffic patterns, parking, and neighborhood ....
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Two Philosophical Questions
.... We could only evaluate them through
rational means such as logic or analogy, and there is no evidence that such an approach is more than an exercise in logic ....
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Military Computer Simulation Exercises Ref: Means (#1897). As the ...
.... the simulation model degrades the usefulness of simulation as a
means of testing .... holds that participants in a game will always make a
rational decision based ....
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Comte and the Modern World
.... positive philosophy, by considering the results of the activity of our intellectual faculties, furnishes us with the only really
rational means of exhibiting ....
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Frege on Arithmetic 1. Frege characte
.... It appears that Kant is saying that intuition without reflection says nothing meaningful about
rational activity, which
means that general laws could not be ....
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Child Language Acquisition & Development Abstract Learning theory ...
.... The semantic intention to which Brown refers is given theoretical content by Chomsky's insistence on
rational means toward understanding of
rational processes. ....
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Views of Various Philosophers
.... This is because
rational beings exist as ends in themselves, and this is why they are called "persons." This
means that they are beings with the right to be ....
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John Stuart Mill on Utilitarianism
.... Elster says that
rational choice is concerned with finding the best
means to give ends, but it is not infallible precisely because the choice that is made is ....
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John Stuart Mill on Morality
.... is practical reason. kant
means that the
rational agent is able to exercise choice and to choose the good. Human beings are imperfectly ....
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Ration & Reason During Renaissance
.... philosophy that rejected supernaturalism and stressed individual dignity, self-worth, and posited a high value on reason or
rational thought as a
means of self ....
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The Book of Strangers
.... depends on a non-
rational immersion in the realm of empirical truth. The second event---the narrator's giving up of the white hash as a
means to enlightenment ....
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Joyce's The Dead James Joyce's
.... and confrontations wear down Gabriel's armor bit by bit, increasingly short-circuiting his conscious,
rational mind, which he sees as his
means of control but ....
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Definitions of Sociology Theories
.... Theory (relative to
rational choice theory):
Rational choice theories assume people are
rational and base their actions on the most effective
means to their ....
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AIDS and Quarantine in the United States This pap
.... objective comes under social welfare, then the
means (classification of persons with AIDS) must be rationally related to a legitimate interest (
rational basis ....
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Socrates on the Nature of the City-State
.... This
means that the ordinary sense of moral terms has to be inverted so that .... three classes of the state: Then it is also different from the
rational part, or ....
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Structural Adjustment Program and the IMF
.... To most developing nation's, however,
rational pricing is a euphemistic .... Economic liberalization, according to Sachs,
means introducing market competition and ....
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Environs in Novels
.... and living entities. Life in this sense is equated with freedom, and this
means freedom from the
rational. The Underground Man sees ....
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Niccolo' Machiavelli Thesis
.... proposed that reason demands that each citizen receives their due and that private and social claims should be weighted against each other by
rational means. ....
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Hamlet as a Renaissance Man
.... characteristic of the Renaissance man. Hamlet is obsessed with
rational thought as the
means of finding truth. He is torn in his ....
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Le Corbusier
.... and we feel that they are in harmony with the
means of realization we possess" (39). Urban restructuring must proceed based on "the most
rational inquiry [and ....
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Aristotle's Views of Tragedy
.... the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by
means of pity .... the god Dionysus and notable not least for their anti-
rational, ecstatic, religious ....
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Forgery of a Proporated Play by Shakespeare
....
Rational action
means "becoming a member of the human community, and with the help of a technique guided by science, going over to the attack against nature ....
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Hume and God
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rational intelligence. This appears to be behind his statement that "similar causes prove similar effects, and similar effects similar causes" (Hume 57)
means ....
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Legitimacy of Practical Authority The purpose of this research is ...
.... and ambiguous, to show the connection between normative power and the rationale for authority, and to resolve, by
means of assigning a
rational hierarchy to ....
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Moral Acts
.... and he conceives of conscience as a reflective or
rational faculty which .... All human actions are specific passions or appetites, and the
means to regulate these ....
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Negotiating & Bargaining
.... a useful tool for assessing what might be considered the most
rational, ideal outcome .... also see how petty and ineffective it can become as a
means of achieving ....
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