Sentence examples for contestable moral from inspiring English sources

If we simply assume methodological nationalism, the opposite of methodological Lennonism, it seems that we will have smuggled in a set of highly contestable moral premises about the legitimacy and priority of national interests.

The concepts are essentially contestable: the focus of moral disagreement is whether the action in question causes or merits the pertinent response, not what response-independent properties it has (Wiggins 1987: 198).

Michel Piron said he would not "stay in a UMP presided over by a president who is contested and contestable".

(3) is obviously a contestable, and contested, claim.

Quantification, he wrote, "is more readily contestable and likely to be contested".

Maybe in a diverse modern society any standard of virtue will be contestable, and so not a good building block for constructing fundamental moral principles.

Certainly it is contestable to what extent the public could embrace further demotion of the moral importance of death, and to what extent its limited ability to do so matters for public policy.

As much is contestable.

The contestable space is values.

Aristotle believed education should "be contestable".

But in education, everything is politically contestable.