Rawls contends that, since his aim is to discover a conception of justice appropriate for a democratic society that is justifiable to its free and equal citizens and which all can endorse and accept, the appropriate way to justify this conception is by (imagining) an agreement among free and equal moral persons themselves.
Rawls hopes, that is, that the religious, moral, and philosophical doctrines that citizens accept will themselves endorse toleration and accept the essentials of a democratic regime.
The aim of this study was to specify the features of a 'NHS friendly' complementary therapy service – that is a service that would be accepted, endorsed and supported by NHS stakeholders such as clinicians and PCT managers – to help those who are considering ways to design such services in NHS primary care.
Stigmatizing attitudes regarding certain behaviors (e.g. substance use during pregnancy) and groups (e.g. injection drug users) are widely accepted, culturally endorsed and enshrined in policy (e.g. criminal law).
"Company Man" is newsy on the legal underpinnings of American counterterrorism policy after September 11th, and on the subject of torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" (E.I.T.s), as Rizzo and others who endorsed or accepted their use prefer.
Perfectionism is the view that there are values valid for an individual or a population even when, from the subjective point of view of those agents or groups, that value is not endorsed or accepted (Wall 1998, Sumner 1996, 45 80, Hurka 1993, Sher 1997; see also Perfectionism).
The highly secretive practice is seen as part of a sexual socialisation process to regulate and endorse culturally accepted norms of heterosexual manhood.
What we hear instead is an airbrushed view of the crisis — a view endorsed by coral reef scientists, amplified by environmentalists and accepted by governments.
"It is not clear to us whether you intend to formulate your transaction as an actual acquisition proposal that the board could evaluate and potentially endorse or accept or rather to propose it as an alternative that the board could consider in the event the pending sale to Silver Lake and Michael Dell is not approved," the directors wrote.
Some commentators e.g., Beck (1978, 126 127)—take Kant to be here endorsing the "generally accepted view" (of particular empirical causal laws), "according to which we have only been first guided by the perception and comparison of many concurring sequences of events following on certain appearances to discover a rule, in accordance with which certain events always follow on certain appearances".
