Sentence examples for acting justly from inspiring English sources

It's the story of the inversion, and he says this. Suppose the person who acts justly is perceived by everyone as acting unjustly, and the person who acts unjustly is perceived as acting justly.

The same amount of rewarding and punishing is going on in both cases, but by adult lights, one individual is acting justly and the other isn't.

Glaucon challenges Socrates to defend his claim that acting justly (morally) is valuable in itself, not merely as a means to some other end (in this case, the reputation one gets from seeming just).

The function argument in Book One suggests that acting justly is the same as being happy.

But he does not have to show that being just or acting justly brings about happiness.

But now the instrumentalist could argue that obedience to the authoritative commands of the state may be necessary to acting justly in many instances.

Unfortunately, IRIB has not acted justly.

To act justly and to love mercy.

Act justly and with principle.

Men of virtuous character acting in and through justly administered institutions will stabilize and perpetuate the good society.

An objection often levied against egoistic theories is that they give the wrong reason for acting in other-regarding ways: justly, kindly, etc.