Sentence examples for in need of justification from inspiring English sources
Modern-dress Shakespeare has been with us for nearly a century, long enough to cease being a novelty or in need of justification.
The problem with this principle is that it too stands in need of justification, and the only possible justification is question-begging.
According to Husserl, the philosophies of Descartes and Kant presupposed a gap between the aspiring knower and what is known, one that made claims to knowledge of the external world dubious and in need of justification.
She describes being so wowed by male writers that they could do no wrong in her eyes; such men were, after all, perhaps able "to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification".
Coherentism does not begin with basic beliefs on which all other beliefs stand, but rather looks at all beliefs because they are equally in need of justification.
Yet, if it is economically affordable, the pursuit of pleasure and comfort is considered legitimate by the interviewees and not in need of justification on other moral grounds.
Likewise, all moral agents agree that deceiving, breaking promises, cheating, breaking the law, and neglecting duties are in need of moral justification.
1.3, because some state activities are expressive or symbolic, rather than coercive, but may still seem to stand in need of public justification.
The signs in language can only function when there is a possibility of judging the correctness of their use, "so the use of [a] word stands in need of a justification which everybody understands" (PI 261).
A related worry is this: if coercive actions uniquely stand in need of public justification, then this may make it difficult, or even impossible, for the state to legitimately pursue many goals that are widely perceived to be permissible (Lister 2010).
He cited Bryan Wilson, an Oxford sociologist, who has argued that testimony from the disaffected should be treated skeptically, noting, "The apostate is generally in need of self-justification.
