Sentence examples for considered convictions from inspiring English sources

Reflective equilibrium begins with our shared "considered convictions" of justice at all levels of generality, from particular to our most general judgments.

Reflective equilibrium privileges no such subset of beliefs: any belief at any level of generality is subject to revision, if revision will help to bring one's considered convictions into greater coherence overall.

It then seeks to discover the principles of justice that best "fit" with these considered convictions in a "wide reflective equilibrium," after considering all the reasonable alternative conceptions of justice.

To defend himself, Ross might simply eschew appeal to self-evidence and certainty with respect to intuitions about general principles and replace them with appeal to moral beliefs of high reliability or to considered convictions about moral claims (Griffin 1996; Rawls 1971; Hooker 2000).

Rawls's intent is that readers will see the outcome of the original position as justified because they will see how it embodies plausible understandings of citizens and society, and also because this outcome confirms many of their considered convictions about justice on specific issues.

The principles of justice that best fit with our considered convictions of justice are those that would be chosen by rational persons within this hypothetical-choice "procedure of construction," which itself "represents" our considered convictions regarding all the relevant reasons for arguments about principles of social justice.

Although the courts only consider convictions to be relevant for a period of three years from the date of the offence, some insurers take penalty points into account for a period of five years.

Activists had considered the convictions a human rights victory for a country plagued by thousands of atrocities.

Mrs Lawrence, 61, said: "I've always considered the convictions in 2012 as a partial justice and I don't want the investigation stopped until all those responsible for Stephen's death have been jailed.

This wasn't a journey his erstwhile friends in the Nation of Islam wanted him to make, and one of Marable's great tasks over the years of research was to piece together the parts played by the Nation and the FBI in the murder of Malcolm X. Three men, all members of the Nation of Islam, were jailed for the murder but few considered the convictions safe, even at the outset.

W. D. Ross, for example, uses the notion of apprehension, but he tends to base his moral theory largely on our considered moral convictions.