8 sentences with “irrational”

It is ridiculous and irrational to think that we are the only intelligent beings in such a vast universe.

Anger: The typical irrational fear of death, which provokes aggressive reactions.

Just as torture came to be seen by almost all Enlightenment thinkers as not only cruel, but archaic and irrational, so slavery went from being an unquestioned economic necessity to a repugnant form of continuing injustice.

Her best-known work was the Book of the City of Ladies, in which she attacked the then-universal idea that women were naturally unintelligent, sinful and irrational; it was a key text in the women's quarrels mentioned above.

Many of Freud's theories were influenced by his own experience as a brilliant scholar who happened to be Jewish, living in a society plagued by anti-Semitism - he sought to understand the inner psychological drives that led people to engage in irrational behaviour.

The element to note is not only the seemingly irrational nature of the boom, but also the mentality: the Dutch moneyed classes were already embracing speculative market economies, in which the value of a given commodity has almost nothing to do with what it does, but with what people are willing to spend on it.

The most elementary laws of supply and demand in the economy were ignored in favour of irrational, indeed arbitrary, production systems. The result was a chronic shortage of goods and services that people actually needed (or wanted) and an equally huge surplus of useless and shoddy junk, from ill-fitting shoes to unreliable machinery.

According to Freud, there are three basic areas or states that exist simultaneously in the human mind. First, part of the unconscious is the "Id" (it): the seat of pleasure drives (sexual lust, power, security, food, alcohol and other drugs, etc.) and of what might be considered "obsession": seemingly irrational desires that have nothing to do with pleasure per se (pyromania, kleptomania, or seemingly self-destructive political activity).