Sentence examples for our approbation from inspiring English sources

It was a vote "merely not to overthrow the government, the M. R. P. speaker said, "much more it was a vote to give it either our approbation or our agreement".

Reid says, "Our first moral conceptions are probably got by attending cooly to the conduct of others, and observing what moves our approbation, what our indignation.

As Hume formulates it, the problem is to explain the nature of the relationship between our approbation, which is pleasurable, and the presence of "sorrow, terror, anxiety," and other naturally disagreeable emotions (OT, 258).

And Hutcheson argues that we cannot turn our approbation or condemnation on the sense-faculty itself – that is, we cannot judge its moral worth – except insofar as we use the moral sense.

Crousaz does not put up with this divorce; on the contrary, he believes we have a responsibility to discover "which principles regulate our approbation when we judge something from ideas only [or, as he likes to say, "coolly"] and find it beautiful independently of feeling" (AT, 393).

In our current debate, which household deserves our approbation and which our disapproval?

Now the fact that we have more resemblances to and relations with some people than others, and hence find it easier to sympathize with some than others, might suggest that moral judgment cannot rest on sympathy, since our moral approbation, unlike our personal preference, is not (or at least is not supposed to be) biased in favor of those to whom one is most similar or closest.

In the absence of something like Shaftesbury's natural teleology, Hutcheson can offer no guarantee that exercising our benevolent affections, the ones that generate our moral approbation, will likewise produce happiness.

Let's stipulate up front that E-ZPass has shaved at least seven billion traffic-jammed hours from our collective lives — yes, the Haggler did the math — and for this reason is worthy of our heartfelt approbation.

Disagreeable aspects contribute to our general approbation because those properties are balanced by naturally agreeable properties.

We cut our terms of approbation in half: "fabulous" was "Fab!"; "gorgeous" was "Gorge!"; "brilliant" was "Brill!" We emulated the d.j.s we heard on the radio and in clubs.