How To Use Praiseworthiness In A Sentence
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Now obedience to a superior is due in accordance with the divinely established order of things, as shown above A. 1, and therefore it is a good, since good consists in mode, species, and order, as Augustine states.6 Again, this act has a special aspect of praiseworthiness by reason of its object.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
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The problem is not the praiseworthiness of Old England.
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However, praiseworthiness is associated with the evaluation of the agent rather than the act, while supererogation refers primarily to the act.
How to Kill a Missionary
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None of this is to deny the praiseworthiness of doubt and sceptical inquiry, preconditions for both good government and clear thought.
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That we give moral properties a priority in praiseworthiness over power properties as to do not with any lack of intrinsic goodness on the part of power, but in the relation between the two kinds of intrinsic goodness. posted by Brandon | 11:44 PM
Archive 2005-05-01
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But then the direct utilitarian can appeal to the same distinctions among praiseworthiness and blameworthiness that the sanction utilitarian appeals to, while denying that her own deontic distinctions track blame and praise.
Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
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They have met with tremendous success and virtually no opposition in mainline Protestantism because of the praiseworthiness of their aims.
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Yet another strategy is to divorce completely the moral appraisals of acts from the blameworthiness or praiseworthiness of the agents who undertake them, even when those agents are fully cognizant of the moral appraisals.
Deontological Ethics
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The praiseworthiness of an action ought not be contingent upon factors beyond an agent's control but instead depends solely upon the agent himself.
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This consideration, however, may have more to do with the whistle blower's praiseworthiness than with the justifiability of blowing the whistle.
Loyalty
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Now it is both necessary and sufficient for justice, and thus for praiseworthiness, that an agent wills what is right, knowing it to be right, because it is right.
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Then, we form further associations with the causes of praise and blame and thus acquire the sentiments of 'praiseworthiness' and
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
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Having said this, however, it must be reiterated that these claims for ancient accounting are not to be taken as unadulterated claims of praiseworthiness.
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On Truth imply that freedom is also the capacity for justice and the capacity for moral praiseworthiness.
Saint Anselm
