According to Aristotle, "Now it is thought to be the mark of a man of practical wisdom to be able to deliberate well about what is good and expedient for himself, not in some particular respect, e.g. about what sorts of thing conduce to health or to strength, but about what sorts of thing conduce to the good life in general" (Nichomachean Ethics, VI, 1140a 1140b).
His collatio or comparative discussion of free will is an investigation (indagatio) of the sources of virtue, concerned to promote a conclusion that is both morally righteous and also socially expedient, good for the concord of the community of faithful Christians (Boyle 1983 14 17).
What we are talking about is a rationalized conformity -- an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right and good as well".
Money had to be raised by selling off the monastic lands, which had brought a good income; the desperate expedient of debasing the coinage, though it brought temporary succour, led to a violent inflation that made things worse.
We cannot strip from teachers the rights enjoyed by all other Americans under the pretense that it is just a temporary expedient which will last only until we have obtained a higher good.
To secure these ends, granting judges tenure during good behavior was "the best expedient which can be devised," Hamilton observed.
This may be politically expedient, it looks good to keep civil servant numbers down; and maybe practical, you don't always have the skills you need.
In aggregate, the presented results show that if it is desirable to compress images corrupted by additive noise with good visual quality, it is expedient to carry out compression with setting for coders controlled by quantization step.
Drones might one day blanket cities dropping off Amazon goods, but in the short-term, there's plenty of opportunity for them to help out in limited engagements, where delivery via other means would be difficult, impossible or just not quite expedient enough.
Mondoweiss, no stranger to dissenting opinions and questioning well-established and politically expedient narratives, did just that in good faith when it ran this post from a contributor named Mohammad from Vancouver, an apparent Iranian-Canadian.
Roger Alton, a former Independent editor, might reasonably feel he was stitched up good and proper by the simple expedient of being given the accent of a moustache-twirling villain from Victorian melodrama, which gave everything he uttered a patina of cynicism and menace.
