She admired it for containing " a sustained programme of study for women " and being based on the idea that Christianity should be " the chief instructor of our rational faculties ".
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While Parwez admitted the limitations of human rational faculties, which can not grasp the source and nature of the Divine, he stressed that the content of revelation can be understood rationally.
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He asserted that these experiences arise from a special, non-rational faculty of the human mind, largely unrelated to other faculties, so religion cannot be transcendental reality, are untestable and hence unscientific.
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He saw the college to be a true expression of liberal education as it fostered rational faculties and self-criticism, and noted the college's place in fighting norms on a much larger timescale.
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In addition to the rational faculties, Posidonius taught that the human soul had faculties that were spirited ( anger, desires for power, possessions, etc . ) and desiderative ( desires for sex and food ).
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The underlying principle here being that Greek pagan philosophy sought to reconcile being, existence with the rational faculty of humans giving humanity purpose by achieving this rationalization of life or being ( ontology or more commonly called Metaphysics ).
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The a priori domains of knowledge such as mathematics, combined with the emphasis of obtaining knowledge through the use of rational faculties ( commonly rejecting, for example, direct revelation ) have made rationalist themes very prevalent in the history of philosophy.
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Pomeroy's case was dismissed, but Davenport was declared to be under " enthusiastical impressions and impulses, and thereby disturbed in the rational faculties of his mind . " No punishment was meted out, but Davenport was sent back to his former parish of Southold.
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Any individual or distinguishing features of the soul are annihilated after the death of the body; only the rational faculty survives ( and then, only if it has attained perfection ), which becomes one with all other rational souls within the agent intellect and enters a realm of pure intelligence.
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Maimonides in " Guide to the Perplexed " ( I : 72 ) also notes the man-as-microcosm theme, but limits this analogy to one of rulership : Just as man without the rule of his rational faculties would perish, so to the world without its Ruler would perish.
