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"justifying reason" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to refer to the rationale or explanation behind a decision, action, or belief. Example: "The company's CEO provided a justifying reason for the decrease in profits this quarter, citing changes in consumer behavior and market trends."
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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.
The latter questions, you should reply, would be as absurd as my request for stating a justifying reason for your perceptual experience.[46] Experiential foundationalism, then, is not easily dislodged.
Williams seeks to put flesh on WB by characterizing what he calls sound deliberative routes, the thought then being that if R is a justifying reason for A, there is some sound deliberative route from A's actual motivational state to a state where he is motivated to act in a way that R would explain.
The latter is a distinction between two kinds of justifying reason, the justifying reasons that apply to my circumstances as I, incompletely and perhaps incorrectly, understand them (subjective reasons) and the justifying reasons that apply to my circumstances as they actually are (objective reasons).
His argument thus ultimately rests on the credibility of his sense that the internalist understanding of a justifying reason he spells out in this way is clear and straightforward while the rival understanding of justifying reasons as external reasons is mysterious and opaque.
The risk of recurrence should not be considered as a justifying reason to avoid transplantation as a treatment method.
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The second is no less unhelpful partly because reasons to regard an action as justified are also reasons for performing it, partly because it exhibits Frankena's tendency to identify justifying reasons with specifically moral reasons whereas justifying reasons, as such, need have nothing to do with moral concern.
Indeed where we are concerned with justifying reasons, the "good" of "good reason" is a redundancy: if there is nothing good about, nothing to be said in favour of, your (explanatory) reason for φ-ing, it wasn't a (justifying) reason at all (Dancy 2000, 3; cf. Parfit 1984, 118).
Consequently, the source of justifying reasons must lie elsewhere.
In Hutcheson's terminology, moral sense is the source of justifying reasons, but not exciting reasons.
One issue here would be whether such subconscious states can be justifying reasons.
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