This strategy offers the prospect of identifying a principle rich enough in content to serve as the justifying ground for other moral judgments.
If one makes the numerosity assertion first, then one can regard that as a justifying ground for the subsequent statement that the number of Fs is identical to 2. As Frege put it, the propositional content on the right-hand side has been 're-carved' as the identity statement on the left-hand side.
An exciting reason is a motive which actually prompts a person to act; a justifying reason is one which grounds moral approval of the act.
Locke's attitude toward punishment in his other writings on toleration, education, and religion consistently follows this path toward justifying punishment on grounds other than retribution.
Likewise, the District Court ordered the Bureau of Classification to prepare a detailed and specific statement set[ting] out all grounds justifying OSP placement including facts relied upon and reasoning used. Id., at 1027.
There are three kinds of activity listed as reasons for designating an organisation or an individual as extremist: spreading, inciting, promoting or justifying hatred on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and/or transgender identity.
This avoids the problem, particularly acute for counterfactual theories, of grounding or justifying counterfactuals without appeal to causal knowledge (cf Edgington, 2011; Woodward, 2011).
What then are we to justify in justifying punishment?
However, if one can justify denying a marriage license to a same-sex couple on "religious" grounds, where does the slippery slope of justifying discrimination on the so-called grounds of "religious liberty" end, or does it ever end?
The principal focus of concern with justifying retributivism is justifying its desert object.
For this reason, they argue against justifying redistributive measures to achieve inclusion on the grounds that they correct natural inequalities in skills, talents, or the ability to convert resources into welfare.
