Sentence examples for permissible actions from inspiring English sources

Regarding morally permissible actions, Herman argues that the moral motive functions as a limiting condition, screening out inclinations that take as their object action conflicting with the Categorical Imperative.

The intention seems to be to undercut the appeal of such a state by showing what sorts of unattractive, albeit permissible, actions individuals would have to engage in to arrive at such a state.

The doctrine of double effect allows as morally permissible actions which are not intrinsically wrong, even if they have foreseen harmful effects, so long as: 1.

Some of these individual cells drew the line between permissible actions to achieve their political goals and impermissible actions that involved destruction of property and other provocative acts.

The court explained: Within the field of permissible action under the limitations imposed by the federal constitution, the convention swept the circle of expedients to obstruct the exercise of the franchise by the negro race.

This passage identifies the criterion of permissible action in terms of consequences, and in particular, consequences that consist of happiness and suffering.

On this view, even the substantive aspect of equality of opportunity is a deontological requirement, a moral constraint on permissible action, not a specification of a goal that morally ought to be achieved.

What the history of the science-society relationship reveals is that the result is an outcome of ongoing negotiations by a range of stakeholders to determine the authority, jurisdiction, and responsibilities setting the boundaries of what is or is not permissible action by scientists and the government (6).

2) All large CPs list DoS attacks' testing and evaluating as a non-permissible action [5].

The content of all this valuable and permissible state action is underdetermined by the theory of legitimacy and is grounded in considerations other than necessity.

At most one can think of permissible bad action in relatively trivial cases, like taking too long in a restaurant while others are waiting, which is inconsiderate rather than immoral (Ullmann-Margalit 2011).