ultra-rational

Updated: May 15, 2025

While appreciating the importance of the factor of individual reason, he contended that self-restraint by the individual in the interests of society is impossible without an ultra-rational sanction; that, in fact, without this the reason is the most anti-social and anti-evolutionary of all human qualities.

H. P. C. Ashworth - Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government

But the world continues to cling to an ultra-rational Gospel because it is instinctively aware that morality rests upon ultra-rational sanctions.

Joseph Warschauer - Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive

Reason is cruel beyond anything dreamed of in the beast. That portion of the community which loves to hear the abuse of reason, rejoiced to hear this phrase. They rejoiced when they heard that religion was the only remedy, and that religion was ultra-rational, contra-rational, supernatural, in this new sense.

Edward Caldwell Moore - An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant