The problem of determining certainly what action would promote the happiness of a rational being is insoluble.
The universe is a rational universe, a cosmos, and man, as above all else a rational being, finds thus his kinship to the universe.
As a rational being he not only feels the thrill of passion but responds to the authority of a law and obeys the voice of duty.
But a command is not given rightly save to a rational being.
But those which are conferred by God on man as a rational being, are bestowed on him at his birth, for then it is that he receives that nature.
We say of nature and its faculty in organised products far too little if we describe it as an analogon of art; for this suggests an artificer (a rational being) external to it.
But we find also in ourselves and still more in the concept of a rational being in general endowed with freedom (of his causality) a moral Teleology.
Man is by nature social, and, as a rational being, possesses the impulse toward ordered association.
According to the law of nature, a rational being ought so to conduct himself that he shall never contradict a truth by his actions, i.
The sin specified in the passage, is that of doing violence to the nature of a man--to his intrinsic value as a rational being, and blotting out the exalted distinction stamped upon him by his Maker.
The sin specified in the passage, is that of doing violence to the nature of a man--his intrinsic value and relations as a rational being, and blotting out the exalted distinction stamped upon him by his Maker.
Thus, because the proposition Man is a rational being, was an essential proposition, they affirmed the same thing of the proposition, Julius Caesar is a rational being.
There is question here of what is most difficult to man as an animal, not of what is most difficult to him as a rational being.
But what good effect can the latter mode of worship have on the moral conduct of a rational being?
Let her only determine, without being too anxious about present happiness, to acquire the qualities that ennoble a rational being, and a rough, inelegant husband may shock her taste without destroying her peace of mind.
Remember that when I speak of pleasures, I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and, not the brutal ones of a swine.
I shall neither deny nor grudge you any money, that may be necessary for either your improvement or your pleasures: I mean the pleasures of a rational being.
We might infer from this that the intellect, so judging, is itself the proper and complete determinant of the will, and that man, as a rational being, ought to aim at the realization of absolute good for its own sake.
Kant, like Price and Reid, holds that man as a rational being is unconditionally bound to conform to a certain rule of right, or "categorical imperative" of reason.
Thus, because the proposition Man is a rational being, was an essential proposition, they affirmed the same thing of the proposition, Julius Cæsar is a rational being.
No rational being, we admit, could desire such a freedom; could desire to be free, for example, from the conviction that two and two make four.
This conducts us to the consideration of the most awful subject that ever engaged the attention of a rational being,—the never-ending torments of the wicked in another world.
Indeed, he had often said to himself that no rational being could be expected to follow the vagaries of Castalia's sickly fancies and impracticable temper.
When applied to man, it does not borrow the least thing from the knowledge of man himself (anthropology), but gives laws a priori to him as a rational being.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rational being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
