by Petor A. Magaro The paranoid has to be a fascinating topic to anyone invested in the code of rationality adhered to in modern industrialized societies. Since the Renaissance, the value of reason has been a constant and valued cultural theme. The products of rationality such as technology and government planning have been viewed as successful endeavors and, as such, have tended to confirm the...

Inflation forecasts are an important part of modern day activist stabilization policy, and hence their accuracy and credibility is of vital importance. We examine the accuracy of these forecasts by testing for rationality in the expectation formation process using the Survey of Professional Forecasters data surveys of annual inflation forecasts. The non-stationarity of the actual and forecasted...

The project of articulating a theological ethics on the basis of liturgical anthropology is bound to fail if the necessary consequence is that one has to quit the forum of critical modern rationality. The risk of Engelhardt's approach is to limit rationality to a narrow vision of reason. Sin is not to be understood as the negation of human holiness, but as the negation of divine holiness. The o...

In his book, Maldonato provides a thoughtful look at how early scholars viewed decision-making and rationality. He takes the reader on an illustrative journey through the historic passages of decision-making all the way to modern notions of a more limited rationality and how humans can make choices under risk and uncertainty. He discusses Kahneman and Tversky’s seminal work on heuristics and bi...

this article is an attempt to analyze the interaction of heroic morals and the logic of everyday life through the perspective of sociology of cinema. in other words, the author is aimed to study the interaction of heroic morals and the logic of everyday life as represented and narrated by cinema. the case under study is the movies of masud kimiai. theoretically, a combination of jean duvignaud ...

Because the criteria for success differ across various domains of life, no single normative standard will ever work for all types of thinking. One method for dealing with this apparent dilemma is to propose that the mind is made up of a large number of specialized modules. This review describes how this multi-modular framework for the mind overcomes several critical conceptual and theoretical c...

Western constitutionalism and modern liberalism have constructed and promoted the problematic hegemonic myth of separation of religion from state and politics in democracies (Carter, 1995). Yet, a careful and critical analysis of modern politics, law, and society, which deconstructs formal legal categorizations would point to the irreducible significant role of religion in modern states, laws, ...

This study aims to identify the relationship between neoliberal development and violations of human right an ecologically balanced environment. To this end, research addresses concept rationality, how system presents itself today, its premises consequences, with protection In addition, work clarifies definition environment, it is recognized in modern constitutions international treaties on matt...

OBJECTIVE In this postmodern society, people tend to abandon conventional medicine for alternative medical systems, such as acupuncture. What are the reasons for this defiance regarding modern rationality and individualist success? Who turns to acupuncture? METHODS This study (n=89) examined whether world views opposed to the predominance of rationality (i.e., mistrust of science, spiritualit...