Sentence examples for an impartial perspective from inspiring English sources
A sixty-six-year-old career soldier who has no substantive experience outside the military cannot possibly bring an impartial perspective to leadership at the Pentagon.
Utilitarians believe that moral agents have to always promote the best possible outcome seen from an impartial perspective.
It avers that a moral agent must decide in favour of a moral choice that maximises the total sum of the happiness of all human beings, considered from an impartial perspective.
It is hard to square this reading with the many normative judgments in TMS (see Hanley 2009, chapter 2 and Otteson 2002, chapter 6), and it misses the force of Smith's insistence that the proper way to make normative judgments is to consider the details of a phenomenon from an impartial perspective.
This exactly parallels Rousseau's argument that citizens will be drawn to select just laws as if from an impartial perspective, because the universality and generality of the law means that when considering their own interests they will select the measure that best reflects their own interests.
In general, then, public reason liberals remove beliefs and desires that interfere with the individual's ability to adopt an impartial perspective and to add such general and specific information as is necessary for her to reason well about the issues before her.
Impartiality arises not from a shift in motivation but from the difference in the environment so that self-interest coincides with a more impartial perspective.
To take an obvious counterexample, there is little if any justice in laws approved from a utilitarian impartial perspective when these laws take into account racially prejudiced preferences which are cultivated by grossly unequal, racially discriminatory and segregated social conditions.
What would an impartial view of the speech have thought?
Complainants expected fair procedures from the complaint committee, in particular an impartial position.
Instead, it allows you to jump between versions of the story that are written from a left, right or "impartial" perspective.
