Sentence examples for acting rightly from inspiring English sources

The theory of economically rational behaviour attributes such free-will offerings to the "warm glow" that arises from "acting rightly" or "being seen to act rightly".

The majority then used that same right to strike down a law passed by elected officials acting, rightly or wrongly, to preserve the safety of the citizenry".

I believe that Germany would be acting rightly if it were to cancel the appearance of the orchestra and its conductor".

Once again, willingness to pay for certified timber is most plausibly attributed to the warm glow given by acting rightly and responsibly towards planet and people.

Abelard's own examples include being flogged for not appearing in court, being hanged for stealing, dying because of not eating, and being damned for not acting rightly.

In Arpaly's view, acting rightly from a sense of duty is compatible with acting rightly in a way that is not praiseworthy at all, if one's view of duty is sufficiently mistaken that one ends up doing the right thing only by accident.

Act rightly, but acting in the strength of the flesh (people) is not the key.

"The west is acting not rightly – to put it mildly – allowing Putin to increase the aggression," Odnorozhenko said.

Even when they can see themselves -- and they eventually can see themselves -- to their dying day they rationalize that they were misunderstood because people didn't see the whole truth, the whole big picture that would show that they were acting properly, rightly and honorably".

It is also worth noticing that in addition to Kant's describing all moral agents as autonomous (in that they are self-legislating and have the capacity to act rightly through their own self-constraint), Kant sometimes describes as autonomous ways of acting that realize the latter capacity and as heteronomous ways of acting that fail to do so (G 4 440 41, 444; CPrR 5 29, 43, 78).

Agents who are autonomous in the sense of being self-legislating do not consistently act rightly due simply to their commitment to morality; it is that latter way of acting that we might think of as the fullest expression of autonomy in action (cf. Baxley 2010, 57 61).