Sentence examples for conceptions of impartiality from inspiring English sources
Traditional conceptions of impartiality such as those we have been discussing face a variety of objections.
So the Mohists arguably like Christians and Buddhists fail to articulate a conception of impartiality that is viable in practice.
The second objection here questions whether the liberal conception of impartiality can remain genuinely neutral between competing conceptions of the good.
One obtains a theory of "justice as mutual advantage" (Barry 1989, 1995) which is not satisfactory at the bar of any minimal conception of impartiality or equality.
The conception of impartiality that tends to be favored by deontologists avoids such implications by refusing to view impartial action simply as a matter of maximizing interests (or some other version of the impersonally determined good).
Feminist critics have paid particular attention to the ways in which liberal conceptions of neutrality and impartiality presuppose and reinforce traditional male-dominated, individualistic approaches to moral theory, and in doing so reinforce the social status quo (Gilligan 1982; Noddings 1984; Benhabib 1987; Young 1990).
The locus of impartiality is misplaced, and the conception of human welfare is too narrow.
(Whether such an approach can provide genuine impartiality between competing conceptions of the good is a difficult question that will be further considered in section 5).
No absolute conception of ethics will be available to us; hence, neither will the kind of impartiality that utilitarianism depends upon.
While Kantian constructivists build a moral dimension of impartiality into their understanding of reason, Hobbesian contractualists hold a non-moralized conception of rationality understood as the capacity effectively to satisfy one's interests.
