Sentence examples for capacity for judgment from inspiring English sources

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).

Political activity is valued not because it may lead to agreement or to a shared conception of the good, but because it enables each citizen to exercise his or her powers of agency, to develop the capacities for judgment and to attain by concerted action some measure of political efficacy.

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.

I felt that as a woman I've encountered, in subtle ways, assumptions or prejudices about, say, the nature of women's intelligence or our capacity for disinterested judgment.

The principal goal of philosophy is to cultivate one's capacity for sound judgment, which Descartes identifies with "good sense" (le bons sens) and "universal wisdom".