Sentence examples for justifying reasons from inspiring English sources

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.

For nonreductive realists justifying reasons and explanatory reasons are connected in neither of these intimate ways.

Justifying reasons, on the other hand, depend on our approval of an end, which requires recourse to a sense.

The first term of the distinction as stated here, "reasons for acting" is applicable equally to explanatory and justifying reasons.

When Hutcheson asks about justifying reasons, he asks about what, as a matter of fact, makes us think some action is right or good.

Hutcheson's main thesis against ethical rationalism is that all exciting reasons presuppose instincts and affections, while justifying reasons presuppose a moral sense.

The Iranians who tied shut their mouths, for example, may hail from a stable country – but we don't know whether they themselves have justified reasons to flee persecution from their authoritarian government.

These images are now seared into our minds and placed in the box that says, "Justified Reasons to be Scared of Black People".

"Economic reasons are now justifying political reasons to talk to the U.S".

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).

The fact that smoking a cigarette is pleasurable is a perfectly real, perfectly good justifying reason to smoke insofar as smoking really is pleasurable.