Sentence examples for prudential grounds from inspiring English sources

So, given that the costs could easily turn out to be very high, the bias in such cases should be strongly against intervening, simply on prudential grounds.

In respect of (for instance) human reproductive cloning, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology, robotics and geoengineering, regulation will be called for, on ethical as well as prudential grounds.

"You would expect a man who has grown up in the Presbyterian tradition of stark Scottish politics to hate the City of London on ethical, moral and prudential grounds.

American Electric further argues that Connecticut does not have standing based on prudential grounds, arguing that the case is a prototypical "generalized grievance" best resolved by the other branches of government because the alleged harm of the power companies' emissions is shared by all persons and states and cannot be differentiated from other pollution.

Though Judt and Snyder are calling for a more morally informed public discourse one that moves beyond dollars an interest rates they remind us that many of those who devised the welfare state in the nineteenth century were thinking just as much on prudential grounds.

Though Judt and Snyder are calling for a more morally informed public discourse — one that moves beyond dollars an interest rates — they remind us that many of those who devised the welfare state in the nineteenth century were thinking just as much on prudential grounds.

Such an overriding good (e.g., the national well-being) enables persons with different moral outlooks or ideological backgrounds to find principled (rather than merely prudential) common ground.

For both, however, identity is thought to be what grounds prudential concern: the difference between Lucretius and Plato is only over what identity consists in (although for a contrasting interpretation of Lucretius, see Martin and Barresi 2003, 10).

A major challenge facing proponents of epistemic Evidentialism is to find an adequate motivation for it: if there are not sufficient prudential or moral grounds for the obligation to believe on sufficient evidence, then what is the source of its normativity?

I'd worry that whatever regulations are imposed, on prudential or ethical grounds, can't be enforced worldwide any more than drug laws can.

After all, if what unifies my life is a particular persisting ego-substance, and that substance is wholly present at every stage of my life, then every temporal slice of my life is just as much a part of me as every other, so if prudential concern is grounded in identity, for example, I ought to be equally concerned for every part of my life.