He further stated that realism, believing as it does in the objectivity of the laws of politics, must also believe in the possibility of developing a rational theory that reflects, however imperfectly and one-sidedly, these objective laws. ... To give meaning to the factual raw material of foreign policy, one must approach political reality with a kind of rational outline, a map that suggests the possible meanings of foreign policy. In other words, one put himself in the position of a statesman who must meet a certain problem of foreign policy under certain circumstances, and one ask himself w...

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Since people in that day firmly believed man as a rational animal who can and should control his baser passions, Caliban, the epitome of the darkest side of human nature, naturally earned no sympathy or appreciation. ...

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In the later social stage, people embrace a rational, scientific view of the world. ... Merton thought that the structure of society primarily restrains the free expression of man's fixed native impulses. ... Many psychologist measured deviance as an unlucky expression of the personality and underlined the index. ...

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If voting is the fundamental method of political expression in our representative democracy, why do so many Americans take their democratic right for granted? ... On the extreme other hand, the decision to abstain from voting, and from otherwise taking part in political activities, may reflect a voter's rational judgement that his future is safe in the hands of whichever candidate emerges as winner. ...

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