Sentence examples for impartial perspectives from inspiring English sources

But rather than being mainly explanatory of moral judgments like Hume's "judicious spectator," the role of these impartial perspectives is to serve as a basis from which to assess and justify moral rules or principles.

A sixty-six-year-old career soldier who has no substantive experience outside the military cannot possibly bring an impartial perspective to leadership at the Pentagon.

Utilitarians believe that moral agents have to always promote the best possible outcome seen from an impartial perspective.

He abjures the idea of rational choice and agreement by interested parties from an original position or other impartial perspective.

Since, according to Hume, we all can adopt this impartial perspective in imagination, it accounts for our agreement in moral judgments.

Impartiality arises not from a shift in motivation but from the difference in the environment so that self-interest coincides with a more impartial perspective.

Instead, it allows you to jump between versions of the story that are written from a left, right or "impartial" perspective.

It avers that a moral agent must decide in favour of a moral choice that maximises the total sum of the happiness of all human beings, considered from an impartial perspective.

To take an obvious counterexample, there is little if any justice in laws approved from a utilitarian impartial perspective when these laws take into account racially prejudiced preferences which are cultivated by grossly unequal, racially discriminatory and segregated social conditions.

While radical idealization may test the "strains of commitment" (Rawls 1971, 155 9), some moderate idealization is acceptable to most ordinary citizens as an appropriate acknowledgment of the demands of the impartial perspective.

Yet Jollimore claims that this sense in which love is blind is not objectionable, for (a) we can still intellectually recognize the things that love's vision silences, and (b) there really is no impartial perspective we can take on the values things have, and love is one appropriate sort of partial perspective from which the value of persons can be manifest.