Sentence examples for its objective authority from inspiring English sources

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Subjectivist theories such as expressivism can certainly make sense of the fact that we make the ethical judgments we do, but they empty morality of its objective authority.

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Couple that with the sheriff's announcement that they expect a search by Ground Penetrating Radar to last only a day -- a very limited time window -- it's important that analysis is done by an expert and objective authority.

Notice how Faith claims the sort of objective authority you'd expect to find in third-person narration.

Where the footnotes contest these they create an illusion of objective authority, underpinned by the prestige of German mandarin academic culture, whereas in reality they are taking subjective positions on matters of historical debate, like everyone else.

When he tells his audience the truth—"I really don't know any way to say it other than I just ran out of bullshit"—and announces that the following week he will commit suicide on the air, his rating soar, and he is reinstated not as an objective authority figure but as a wildly subjective voice of opinion: the incarnation of television news as entertainment.

It is not underwritten by a supposed natural tendency of humans to obey authority, or by an underlying normatively objective authority.

Because this sort of argument has not always gotten a grip on those skeptical about the objective authority of morality, one important development since the 1970s is the observation that a similar sort of problem arises for prudential reasons (e.g. Nagel 1970).

The fact that such an authority is getting paid millions of dollars for his or her endorsement might be enough to make you question him as an objective authority.

In their view, and evidently that of the Koch brothers, "no matter how 'necessary' or 'proper' an Act of Congress may be to its objective, Congress lacks authority to legislate if the objective is anything other than 'carrying into Execution' one or more of the Federal Government's enumerated powers".

Yet it achieves its objective.

It is focused in its objective.

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