Sentence examples for Conflicting goods from inspiring English sources

It is reconciling conflicting goods.

Self-knowledge requires a critical appreciation of one's culture and physical inheritance, and the ability to shape one's life in streams of conflicting goods within oneself and within one's community.

Berlin's view was that there are many examples of conflicting goods—for example, justice and mercy, or liberty and equality where it is implausible to suppose they are commensurable.

Attfield also endorses a form of consequentialism which takes into consideration, and attempts to balance, the many and possibly conflicting goods of different living things (also see Varner 1998 for a defense of biocentric individualism with affinities to both consequentialist and deontological approaches).

Later, he wrote more than 20 plays on the theme of conflicting good and evil.

There is a serious debate to be had about how to reconcile conflicting environmental "goods" - protecting the landscape, for instance, versus mitigating climate change.

And Clare Davis is torn with to-and-fro conflicting emotions: "good to see GU impartiality at play and OBO coverage of both semis.

In this conflict, good and ill are not simply apportioned.

New York, 5 May 2002 - SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT Good morning ladies and gentlemen.

"We're looking, obviously, for aspiration, for characters who are conflicted between good and evil, dark and light".

For all his surly ways, the lawman with a brogue remains an iconic figure — the quintessential, if conflicted, American good guy.