The phrase "defend goodness" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "The brave knight took up his sword to defend goodness throughout the kingdom."
PR's online presence is built for two things: to defend the "goodness" of PR and to sustain its importance in its own congregation.
So anyone who wishes to defend perfect moral goodness as a feature of the absolutely perfect being must hold that what moral goodness requires is at least compatible with the requirements of rationality.
Moore himself used the Open Question Argument to defend a non-naturalist account of goodness but held that rightness was reducible to goodness.
We have seen that there are resources to defend the coherence of the notion of perfect goodness and even necessary perfect goodness, though making use of those resources requires one to take on further controversial commitments.
The Megarians, at least under Eucleides, had an ethical and educational purpose, and it was in this spirit that they defended the unity of goodness.
But elsewhere, following his kinsman Matthew Arnold, he defends timeless standards of "goodness, beauty, wisdom and knowledge", which he takes to be "everywhere and in all kinds of society broadly the same".Finally Huxley identifies himself as a "life-worshipper", though this is too Nietzschean a label for what amounts to a rather tepid Epicureanism.
For a community to be able to defend itself, you should not rely on humanity, you should not rely on goodness.
If they endorse the standard, they should be prepared to defend their prescriptions by reference to it; if they reject it in favor of a different yardstick for moral decency or goodness, they should be prepared to make explicit and defend the rival standard.
The park was then -- this was the 40's and 50's -- an open expanse of green in which we walked and rode our bikes daily, clambered over the rocky embankments of the Bronx River, and in the goodness of time defended our virginity in all weathers and every season.
And my goodness, the corporations need no defending -- they are doing just fine.
