The idea that Chinese advances in human and patients' rights have been caused only by Western influence – a standpoint held by many Westerners and endorsed in the Chinese official discourse – has degraded the agency of Chinese people.
Why should it be assumed that if we begin by looking at the standpoint of holding responsible, the philosophical controversy will amount to a merely normative one?
Furthermore, if the legitimacy of the standpoint of holding responsible were itself challenged, one quite natural way to defend it would be to argue that it is designed to respond to beings of a certain sort.
The purpose is to educate all participants about standpoints held by others – not to persuade them to change to a particular (i.e., different) set of understandings.
Responding to the first of these, some have argued that it does seem possible to critique existing practices of holding responsible from standpoints outside them.
Protein - ligand interactions play pivotal role in almost all the biological processes occurring in living organisms, and therefore such studies hold immense importance from the standpoint of rational drug design and development.
Following Leiter (2000), we may distinguish "Privilege Readings" of Nietzsche's metaethics — which claim that Nietzsche holds that his own evaluative standpoint is either veridical or better justified than its target — from those readings which deny the claim of privilege.
Billy Bob Thorton's 1996 Slingblade, for example, is a film heavy on story and character, but it can't hold a candle, from a cinematography standpoint, to, say, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
From a scientific standpoint, however, the idea of "good" taste obviously doesn't really hold up.
King's constituents also appear to hold thoughts that differ from his immigration standpoint.
