Word: rationales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE SWAP THAT Isn't a Swap has been hailed as a rational, face-saving gesture that enables neither side to claim victory. It also supposedly demonstrates that Reagan and Gorbachev are simpatico in their desire to reach an arms control agreement.
The central trouble seems simply that too many parents have forgotten that freedom gains meaning from restraint. In this they are creatures of their times. For thousands of years, various, and very different, definitions of freedom -- Aristotelian, Cartesian, Augustinian, Kantian -- have all related freedom to significant choice. Over the past...
Much of Shepsle's research has ties to both economics and government, in that it uses economic assumptions and reasoning to study political behavior. This "rational choice" approach to politics allows researchers to create elaborate models of behavior, which rest on certain assumptions that are more commonly linked to economics...
The speaker said legality does not derive from the rational but rather from the moral, adding, "Morality no longer is suspended above law."
Habermas, a professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, is the author of eight books, including "Knowledge and Human Interest," "Towards a Rational Society" and "The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity."