This teleology is reflected by a "law, order and rightness" in the universe, implying the existence of an intellect that orders the nature of things: "you see that the domain of the spheres provides, in the best way possible, for the sub-lunar world" (Wars, V.2.5, p. 137).
The fall of the Berlin Wall, followed by the tech boom, had "turbo-charged" -- to use a favorite piece of business jargon -- their sense of superiority and rightness in all things, not just economic.
What could be righter with the world than, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," or, "Wachet auf?" What do we learn from the formal sophistication of Bach and the Beatles and our sense of laughing rightness in the experience of their work?
Whitehead identified the presence of the divine with an apprehension of a "permanent rightness" in the scheme of things and based the validity of the experience on the claim that an adequate cosmology requires God as a principle of selection aiming at the realization of the good in the world process.
Raven was right, of course; but perhaps there was a certain situational rightness in the decision not to publish.
The manuscript contains sections in which Kant continues to explore the relationship between the concept of God and our consciousness of being moral agents, i.e., our consciousness that we can subject ourselves freely, through our acknowledgment of the categorical imperative, to the requirement of rightness in the choice of our actions.
There is a psychogeographic rightness in the fact that The Office has popped up again in Limehouse, given the area's long association with sleaze.
A nonreligious faith, on the other hand, allows us to live with uncertainty, change, and ultimately, death, not because we believe that a better place awaits us, but we intuitively sense that there is an intelligence, an inherent rightness, in the way life presents itself moment by moment.
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, a history professor at San Diego State University and the author of "All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960's," argued that what was undermined in the 60's was not just public trust but also the public's confidence in "the morality and rightness of America's mission in the world".
Like Mencius, Xunzi believed in the perfectibility of all human beings through self-cultivation, in humanity and rightness as cardinal virtues, in humane government as the kingly way, in social harmony, and in education.
Righteousness means rightness (correctness) in the Bible.
