Sentence examples for prudential reasons from inspiring English sources

This could be for prudential reasons.

The businessmen had wanted to close the college for prudential reasons but had found that, for the same prudential reasons, they could not.

I also part company with Andrew's sweeping embrace of means-testing, but mainly for prudential reasons.

They all (that is, the eight who asked questions; Clarence Thomas did not) seemed to recognize that there were legal and prudential reasons to resolve this issue now.

Anne Elliot has been persuaded to reject the proposal of dashing Captain Wentworth for prudential reasons and spent eight years forgetting him.

Perhaps there are good, prudential reasons for stopping short of prosecuting those who authorized this vile offense to elementary morality for the crimes against American and international law that it entailed.

Prudential norms are usually taken to have a hypothetical structure: if you have prudential reason to survive the disease, and believing that you are going to do so will help you achieve this end, then other things being equal you should believe that you are going to survive.

Deterrence theories are criticised for treating people as brutes not rational agents capable of responding to moral reasons because the deterrent element of punishment gives people a prudential reason (relating to the prospect of punishment), not a moral reason, to refrain from breaching the law.

The thesis that the first practical principles are only incipiently moral should not be confused with the widespread modern opinion that practical reason's default position is self-interest or "prudential" reason, so that there is a puzzle about how one transits from this to morality.

The idea would be that householders who fail to comply with the most basic demands of morality are not likely (for reasons to be discussed shortly) to make significant progress toward the cessation of suffering, and the teaching of karma and rebirth, even if not strictly speaking true, does give those who accept it a (prudential) reason to be moral.

To return to the examples given a moment ago, no fully rational agent is curious about the measurements of every grain of sand on a given beach, or the name of every person in a random phonebook i.e., no rational person wants to know these truths independently of having some prudential reason for knowing them.