Sentence examples for criterion of action from inspiring English sources

In his hometown 'Abd al-Latif made his first steps in philosophy studying al-Ghazali's Intentions of the Philosophers, the Measure of Science in the Art of Logic, the Criterion of Action on Ethics and the Touchstone of Reasoning in Logic.

Bentham, who apparently believed that an individual in governing his own actions would always seek to maximize his own pleasure and minimize his own pain, found in pleasure and pain both the cause of human action and the basis for a normative criterion of action.

However, Sextus describes Carneades' criterion as a criterion of truth, not a criterion of action (M 7.173).

If this is correct, we have another link, at least at a general level, with the Pyrrhonism of Sextus, for whom appearances are what he calls the "criterion of action".

To do so, we imposed a selection criterion of action rate that must be satisfied by each active participant in order to include his/her data (and that of the corresponding yoked participant) in the analyses.

In the short term no changes which could modify the medical criteria of action of the different professionals are expected in our health care system.

A distinction between decision procedure and right action can provide a response the consequentialist can say that the criterion of right action, (act so as to maximize good consequences) is not intended as a decision procedure the agent should use whichever decision procedure is most likely to result in success.

By adopting expected utility as the criterion of right action Russell goes some way towards meeting these objections.

This passage identifies the criterion of permissible action in terms of consequences, and in particular, consequences that consist of happiness and suffering.

For example, a certain form of consequentialism has as its criterion of right action: act so as to maximize good consequences.

As to normative ethics, Broad does not think the utilitarian view that there is one and only one criterion of right action can be sustained.