Sentence examples for on the rightness from inspiring English sources

It is to allow that the legitimacy of civil disobedience does not depend on the rightness of one's cause (Raz, 1979, 268).

The point of this kind of theoretical work is most often to justify one's judgments bearing on the rightness or wrongness of various individual actions or social policies.

Confronted by an international outcry, Aussaresses insisted on the rightness of his actions.

Tony Blair continues to insist on the rightness of the Iraq war.

It is too late to focus on the rightness or wrongness of the war in Iraq.

It is articulated in his insistence on the rightness of torture and the acceptable murder of noncombatants.

For Hume, the only time one would have to rely on one's sense of the rightness or virtuousness of an act to motivate oneself to do it is when one finds oneself deficient in the natural feelings that ordinarily prompt people to act morally (e.g., natural affection, generosity, gratitude).

Other nations may cavil, but many in Israel are so certain of the rightness of a war on Iraq that officials are already thinking past that conflict to urge a continued, assertive American role in the Middle East.

Eichmann convinced her of the rightness of this judgment.

Of course he had a conviction of the rightness of his position too.

There's no question that the Light is the right side to be on, but the rightness at the heart of it is chilly and inflexible, obliged – as Will discovers to his horror – to choose the greater good over the fate of any single individual, time and again.