Word: rationalistic
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...says an instructor as he hands out a 90-question "preference inventory." In his class on managerial effectiveness, William Zierdt offers individual analysis of the results, adding, "I also read tea leaves, or you can bring your own chicken." Thus a volunteer learns that he's a decision- making rationalist with no emotional content. "Hell, that's success in the business world," says Zierdt...
Assistant Professor John P. Carriero, who currently teaches Philosophy 8, "History of Modern Philosophy," and Philosophy 120, "The Rationalist," will replace Jarrett as the department's head tutor...
...treated as the dirty little secret of modern international politics. James Bond is good escapist fun, but the world of John le Carre is recognized as the real thing. The bookish, perpetually cuckolded George Smiley is not a hero because he champions Western civilization; rather, he is the melancholy rationalist, penetrating the ingenuity of other people's deceit. He is more honest, and braver in his honesty, than his colleagues. Yes, he fights Karla, his Soviet counterpart, but Smiley also does battle against the corruption of his own organization and society...
...some sensitization to the fact that the world is impermanent. This awareness of impermanence today is more clear than in say 1980 or 1940. World War I changed all of the intelligent people's view of the safety of the world because, in the midst of a purely hyper-rationalist enlightenment, they saw supposedly enlightened, creatures turning into beasts and killing each other...
...Yorker Writer Jonathan Schell sets out from the moralist camp and Physicist Freeman Dyson from the rationalist camp in search of common ground...