Ultra-long commutes will become reasonable when drivers can simply hit the road at 4 a.m.
|
|
Then, early one morning, remembering again those last minutes, you realize that the repugnant has become reasonable.
|
|
But there is definitely a point in my mind when become reasonable — if not expected — to start sharing things.
|
|
You can see this in politics, where Joe Biden has repeatedly declared that Republicans will have an "epiphany" once Donald Trump is gone, and once again become reasonable people Democrats can deal with.
|
|
The very premise of the questionnaire would have been nonsensical a few years ago: that a presidential candidate might propose criminal justice overhauls so sweeping that it would become reasonable to ask them to prioritize.
|
|
Had Pagan chosen for whatever reason to exercise his constitutional right to make the government prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury of his peers, a sentence of ten years would not have suddenly become reasonable.
|
|
Maturity is learning to endure the pain of deferred gratification. Freud argued that “an ego thus educated has become ‘reasonable’; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle, which also, at bottom, seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished”.Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures 16.357.
|
|
" He added that many young people often grow out of drug dealing and that "Parents would rather not hear about some of the real stuff that happens to kids at that age. Usually they go on to become reasonable people." Michael Brick of The Dallas Morning News said that the murder "reveals a quietly thriving corner of the drug trade, a casual open secret among educated young men and women in dorms, condos and nightclubs. Driven by heightened border security, advanced growing techniques and a national decriminalization movement, entrepreneurial young marijuana distributors are establishing their own domestic networks apart from the notorious cartels of Mexico and prison gangs of the American Southwest.
|
|
Kirscher, Gilbert, Éric Weil ou la raison de la philosophie, Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. p. 85. Any individual, in any historic situation can just as well never become aware of their role as a moral agent responsible for the elaboration and practice of a moral content. This difference leads Weil to assert that "the essential task of the moral man is to educate men so that they obey on their own the universal law"Weil, Éric, Philosophie Politique, Paris: Vrin, 1956. p. 44. Education plays a central role in Weil's philosophy in general, where the summit of moral and political action is to lead people to reason so that they can become reasonable for themselves.
|
|
Freud argued that “an ego thus educated has become ‘reasonable’; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle, which also, at bottom, seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished”.Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (PFL 1) p. 402-3 In his introductory lectures of 1915, at the University of Vienna, Freud popularized the concept of the unconscious as the largest and most influential part of the mind, including those drives, instincts and motives humans are often forced to deny except in disguised form. In the 23rd lecture, Freud discussed the conflict between the realm of "Phantasy" and the reality principle, comparing the former to a nature reserve.
|
|