Sentence examples for explain the authority from inspiring English sources

So, Korsgaard's view seems unable to explain the authority of instrumental rationality with respect to such ends ends that an agent has but doesn't prescribe to herself.

Moreover, if all moral values are understood in this way, how do we explain the authority of the contention that people should follow a set of values because they agreed to do so?

Union officials explained the authority's more upbeat assessment by saying that it was trying to weaken support among moderates for a strike.

Proponents of this former reading are then left with the burden of explaining how it could be the autonomy of the will alone that explains the authority of morality.

While Kant presents a complicated and intricate argument to explain the normative authority of the categorical imperative, he claims that hypothetical imperatives require "no special discussion," and spends comparatively little time discussing them (4:417).

Mr. Letts's gift for writing pungent characters may in part explain the wit and authority with which he channels the voice of one of the 20th-century theater's most famous wordsmiths.

Varadarajan et al. [ 29] described a novel technique to explain the results of authority-flow based techniques.

A fatal problem with transcendental arguments, however, is that they are vulnerable to objections based on denying the reality of what the theory purports to explain: the laws do claim authority, but perhaps that authority is merely apparent, simply unreal.

What's a mistake, though, is to think these aetiologies explain away the authority the experiences carry.

For example, he said, they cannot explain how the authority went from a surplus of $300 million last year to a projected $1.1 billion deficit next year.

The legal and political battle proved very costly for the SNWA and may explain why the Authority turned to long-distance water diversion schemes.