"If our rightness is not so absolute as it now seems to us, no more is Argentine wrongness," he said.
And if we choose happiness over rightness, if we choose generosity over pettiness and abundance over scarcity, we can have many loves in many and shifting forms.
If the moral rightness of an action is grounded in the value of the character traits of the person who performs or would perform it, then it seems Kant thinks that it would be grounded in something of only conditional value.
Guilbault seemed tentative, as if he doubted the rightness of this approach, and Toogood, as impassive as she had been at the beginning of the dance, merely inched forward, still looking away.
I'll admit it always chokes me up, not because the piece is over, not because things are ending, but because of a sense of the completeness of everything that has come before, the rightness, and – if it doesn't sound too cheesy to say – the radiance of experience.
If their value thereby becomes the source of the rightness of our actions — say, our actions are right if and because they treat that self-standing value in various ways — then her reading too is teleological.
In this study, an initial test of epistemic understanding asked participants to indicate for pairs of contrasting statements whether they think that only one of the views described is right or whether both views could have some rightness and – depending on the response to this question ("if both could be right") –whether one view could be better than the other.
So, according to traditional epistemologists, to judge whether a person's belief that p counts as knowledge that p, it is sufficient to find out if p is connected in the right way to other propositions, the rightness of the connection to be determined by logic (Kitcher, 1983).
In his news conference on Friday, Mr. Obama said that if Mr. Snowden believed in the rightness of his actions, "then, like every American citizen, he can come here, appear before the court with a lawyer and make his case".
