When asked: "Why did you do that?" an agent's ultimate justification will, or ought to, appeal to the way in which acting in that fashion contributes to her own well-being.
Although they thus distance themselves from theory as a source of ultimate justification for their working principles, they still refer to their position as a "common morality theory" in order to distinguish it from other fundamental approaches to bioethics.
But the ritual purpose is well-served, and it is an extension of the ultimate justification of MFA programs: this too is a space for apprentices to develop themselves without criticism of their essential identities in the company of peers, that is, removed from the tribulations of the marketplace.
A reliance on scientific, functional decomposition as the ultimate justification of judgments of health and disease requires a revisionist, rather than a conservative, account.
Ecstasy, or a moment of pure transcendence, is the ultimate justification of the musical.
Understanding how genomic variation affects molecular and organismal biology is the ultimate justification of genome sequencing, and annotation is an essential step in this process.
That is its ultimate justification.
But, most disturbing, is her ultimate justification which borders on zealotry.
The Prime Minister rattled the grisly bones of last week's Labour Party Conference at her Conservative faithful yesterday as the ultimate justification for backing her government.
But it is in the behaviour of the outside world that the ultimate justification of Fanon's rage against the white world in general will be found.
War is the sole irreducible function of the state, and the ultimate justification of the greatly concentrated powers and resources this "minimal" entity in the US has accumulated.
