Justice issues and ethics rely on principles of fairness and impartiality and emphasize the liberating of others from injustice.
Intellectuals may differ in the extent to which they exemplify intellectual virtues such as honesty, impartiality, and openness to the views of others.
"Virtues of impartiality" include such personality traits as openness to the ideas of others, willingness to exchange ideas, and a lively sense of one's own fallibility.
Since children start off focused on their own gratifications, getting them to internalise a kind of impartiality that constantly requires them to make large sacrifices for the sake of others would have extremely high costs.
By contrast, open impartiality, which Sen finds recommended in the works of Adam Smith (see Smith 1759), demands "that the viewpoints of others, whether or not belonging to some group of which one is specifically a member, receive adequate attention".
But there are those who believe journalists are meant to be mediators sifting the facts through a sieve of balance, impartiality and other traditional journalistic values?
Last Sunday the New York Times' public editor Clark Hoyt chastised these two, as well as two other players, for not revealing roles that might affect the impartiality of their public pronouncements.
Impartiality of this sort, however, does not necessarily imply any sort of impartiality with respect to other individuals' interests, rights, or claims.
Experts do not know each other and they answer questions in back-to-back style to ensure the impartiality of the results.
Another basic idea of the present paper is that (apart from other information) the equiprobability assumption is to be linked to the idea of the impartiality of design with respect to the parameter under consideration.
