Sentence examples for goodness of things from inspiring English sources

Shaftesbury conceives the core notion of the goodness of things teleologically: something is good if it contributes to the well-being or furtherance of the system of which it is a part.

He suffered disappointments, losses and vexations, and yet to the end possessed an unshakable assurance in the goodness of things that made him akin to Julian of Norwich: "All shall be well".

For the hedonist, there is a reasonably satisfying explanation of the goodness of things that simply adverts to a (putatively) natural property: pleasure.

They can and do gain from suffering much as believers do — even to the point of reacting to it with hope in the final goodness of things, and with reverence for any source this goodness may have, whatever its nature.

In RG, Ross maintains that all intrinsic values are valuable in the same way: the goodness of good things is intrinsic to them (RG 115, 118, 132; also KT 11 12; OJ 119).

Moore also suggests that the reason for me to pursue my good is the goodness of the thing I obtain.

How long, then, before this middle-class preoccupation with quality, traceability and plain goodness of the things we buy extends into technology?

The goodness of these things is a 'quality intrinsic to them' (FE 278).

The goodness of pleasurable things does not add another reason to that given by its pleasantness.

The goodness of these things is not intrinsic to them; rather, it is a relational property, which depends on our rightly taking an interest or rightly finding (some kind of) satisfaction in them (FE 278).

ME: Thank you for acknowledging the Astroturfy goodness of those things, Mr. Gregory.