Do the writers of the Daily Telegraph's editorials fear a loss of their capacity for judgment because of spin and sloganeering or do they view their readers as incapable of seeing through political theatrics?
In this he is drawing partly on the tradition of Catholic social teaching, and partly on moral thinking popular in the 1960s, when moral philosophers were first grappling with the implications of nuclear weapons and the sense that humankind had not grown up but reached its toddler stage, where the capacity for destruction far outweighed our capacity for judgment.
"Everyone has that capacity for judgment, everyone can turn around and say, 'Sorry, but I just don't believe that.' So if you have thin skin – and I don't have particularly thick skin – then your need to constantly please people, well... it's completely impossible.
The prefrontal cortex of the primate frontal lobes provides the capacity for judgment which can constantly adapt behavior in order to optimize its outcome.
By following the method he has prescribed for himself and exercising his capacity for judgment, he is confident of eventually acquiring all the true knowledge of which he is capable, and "in this way all the true goods within my reach" (AT VI 28/CSM I 125).
The aim of the psychological studies that first made the voice of care audible was to recognize and understand the capacities for moral judgment of women whose competency had been underrated.
Perhaps these capacities for emotional judgment enable strictly moral learning in roughly the same way that chess-players' trained sensibilities enable them to recognize the threat in a previously unencountered situation on the chessboard (Lance and Tanesini 2004).
In enacting the notification law, the Florida Legislature said that "the capacity to become pregnant and the capacity for mature judgment concerning the wisdom of an abortion are not necessarily related".
In various high-level government positions, Timothy Geithner, Mr. Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, and Lawrence Summers, his choice for director of the National Economic Council, each has demonstrated a capacity for good judgment and good ideas.
In past conflicts, this problem was usually resolved by smart junior military officers, who may not have been as militarily effective as smart weapons, but who had a capacity for human judgment.
