practical reason
(in Kantian ethics) reason applied to the problem of action and choice, especially in ethical matters.
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There are moral, humanitarian and practical reasons for focusing on health care workers.
The U.S. Can and Should Vaccinate Every Health Care Worker in the World | Dr. Ashish K. Jha | June 4, 2021 | TimeIn short, Israel doesn’t have any practical reasons to make a deal with the Palestinians.
The only way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem | Fareed Zakaria | May 20, 2021 | Washington PostThousands are journeying to the border, motivated by complicated personal and practical reasons.
Crossing the border | Maggie Penman, Alexis Diao, Ted Muldoon, Reena Flores, Jordan-Marie Smith, Linah Mohammad, Rennie Svirnovskiy | March 31, 2021 | Washington PostThere are so many practical reasons to have plastic cups in your life.
The best plastic cups that look better than most plastic cups | PopSci Commerce Team | January 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe proposed act was constitutionally problematic, but it was also unwise for more practical reasons.
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In addition to his temperamental aversion to populism, Roosevelt also had a practical reason to be cautious.
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He is clutching more out of habit than for any practical reason his black briefcase.
So that, from the Romney view of things, is the practical reason to stonewall.
Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney’s Naïve Evasion Strategy | Michael Tomasky | August 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut that argument must take place with a steady view of hard realities, tempered by the discipline of practical reason.
I speak of that as a practical reason why we should, before we leap, look to see what the actual conditions are.
Or it may direct its attention downwards and judge the other corporeal powers (practical reason).
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husikpractical reason is forced into the same categories as theoretical.
The existence of the latter is known to us only by the emotions or by practical reason; but we can have no idea of its nature.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst HaeckelKant especially lent support to it in recent years with his Critique of practical reason, and his three central dogmas.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel
British Dictionary definitions for practical reason
the faculty by which human beings determine how to act
reasoning concerning the relative merits of actions
the principles governing arguments which issue in actions or intentions to act
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