Of course, he had been a failure, but now he rationalized the failure by a comfortable conviction that he should never have been sent to the front.
Kant rationalized the law in these terms as a system of principles or universal rules, to be applied to human action, whereby the free will of the actor may co-exist along with the free will of everyone else.
Hegel rationalizedthe law in these terms as a system of principles wherein and whereby the idea of liberty was realizing in human experience.
Spencer rationalized it as a body of rules, formulating the "government of the living by the dead," whereby men sought to promote the liberty of each limited only by the like liberty of all.
Attempting to rationalize that which cannot be rationalized is a cruel and purposeless task that shall not be mastered; it is like digging a foundation through unyielding stone with a paper shovel.
Wang and his followers rationalized their own fearfulness concerning the war into the belief that they were expressing the will of the peace-loving masses.
Rationalized in language, the notion of competition introduces the experience of comparing, later of measuring, and thus opens the door to the bureaucracy of sports and the institutionalized aspects we today take for granted.
At stake is the fact that the natural condition of the human being is quite often rationalized away, regardless of the reason.
That the most literate segment of business is rationalized away in the massive re-engineering of companies goes unnoticed.
Automation rationalized away the literate component of many activities.
In this process, we might learn about that part of nourishment that was rationalized away in the process of reaching higher levels of efficiency.
Rationality is more and more integrated in the technology; thus it is rationalized away from the process of individual self-constitution.
Rationalized in the structures of democracy, political ideals are now a matter of efficient human interaction.
Thus he rationalized his two selves by giving voice to the terrific protests of his virtue.
She had rationalized her activities and made them a part of the emotionless content of her mind.
Years before she had rationalized her behavior toward young men by inventing a code.
Confucianism has rationalized struggle by supplying each individual participant with a code to apply if he came to power, and by giving him a good pretense for seeking power.
Opportunism, rationalized by one or another ornamental philosophy, has been very common in modern China.
Morality, on the other hand, is rationalized conduct.
Each rationalized habit but paves the way for one still higher.
He rationalized that his reason for shutting the window was to shut out the world, which to him was a bad place.
Huxley said he would as soon adore a wilderness of apes as the Positivist's rationalized conception of humanity.
A concrete narrative or portrayal may be given weight and rationalized by generalization.
The student finds a clutter where he expects rationalized order; he finds he must exclude many words which lie in the borders and fringes of the meaning.
The taboo or "moral" method of regulation has become peculiarly degenerating to race quality, because the most intelligent, rationalized individuals are least affected by it.
There is little doubt that woman will be as amenable to these newer and more rationalized mores as human nature has always been to the irrationally formed customs and traditions of the past.
Only the evolution of a rationalized method of control can avert this social catastrophe.
If we are to have a more rationalized form of social control, then, it will undoubtedly take into consideration the necessity of forming the socially desirable conditionings of the emotional life.
In speaking of min ts'u as a primitive tribalism which had been rationalized as a weapon, Dr.
Custom no longer regulates; all is rationalized according to the logic of the crowd-mind.
The wish-fancy is here rationalized as a doctrine of evolution by revolution.
The powers of the cowry, as a product of the sea, were rationalized into an expression of the great creative force of the water.
The sun-god's powers are rationalized so as to bring them into conformity with the earliest conception of a god as a power controlling water.
The personification in the Great Mother of these life-giving powers of the river occurred at about the same time; and this was rationalized by the myth that she was born of the sea.
In Crete it is a sign of mourning presumably because its life-prolonging attributes, as a means of conferring continued existence to the dead, have been so rationalized in explanation of its use at funerals.
When Artemis acquired the reputation as a huntress and her deer became her quarry the dog was rationalized into the new scheme.
An episode of one experience, having been transferred to an earlier one, becomes rationalized in adaptation to its different environment.
The sharks therefore had to be brought into harmony with this scheme, and they wererationalized as the guardians of the storehouse of life-giving pearls at the bottom of the sea.
This action is usually rationalized by the statement that the hero burnt his fingers while cooking the slain monster.
Rationalized in the English version by ‘now soon,’ being rendered as ‘nearly.
Rationalized in the English version cited, as follows (p.
The latter, indeed, rationalized miracles as well as other things, and considered some of them imaginary.
Swedenborg gave a rationalized version of the Lutheran doctrine, and therefore to reject him involved a rejection of much of Luther's teaching and of the protestantism that has flowed from him.
He carried this doctrine into hisrationalized version of the Incarnation.
In that frenzy of divine fever, half fire, half tears, he felt again that love rationalized life.
All the pangs of his first pipe were repeated, without the moral qualms which rationalized those.
The chairman of the board rationalized it masterfully, without once mentioning that their real concern was to remain ascendant at the center of things at all costs, and thereby maintained the tradition of all non-science endeavors.
Lazy colonists probably neglecting to check in on time," he rationalized cynically to the operator.
Literature is a decadent and rationalized mythology.
The non-explanatory myths suffer a partial transformation: Literature is a fallen and rationalized mythology.
Man rationalized nature and left himself irrational, as can be seen in the Great War.
It is a conflict between a part of experience, interpreted too hastily, and the rationalized whole.
