What matters for purposes of the justification of coercion is that each citizen has sufficient reason, as judged from his or her particular perspective, to endorse state coercion.
He views it as a book marked by the longing for "good old aristocratic times," written for purposes of self-justification and "shaped as much by personal neurosis as by logic and observation".
The article highlights the experience of carrying out comprehensive studies with the purpose of scientific justification of the progressive design and technology solutions for the underground construction of the St . Petersburgsubway.
A plausible account of the purpose of the justification component in the traditional tripartite analysis of knowledge is that it disqualifies accidentally true beliefs — beliefs that happen to be true, but are based on no good reason — from counting as knowledge.
Inclusion of purpose, justification and implications of the research procedures and research participation was specifically important.
To determine when, if ever, punishment of civil disobedience is appropriate, it is necessary first to say a few things about the nature, purposes, and justification of lawful punishment by the state.
Desert theory, by contrast, takes a backward-looking view of the purpose and justification of punishment, focusing on what the offender deserves for her action.
But in the current context, putting a spotlight on them serves an insidious purpose: It searches for some sort of justification for the corporate violence and police brutality we all witnessed.
Today, however, the dominant view is that the deontological understanding of justification is unsuitable for the purposes of epistemology.
The details of the many analyses of knowledge epistemologists have offered are not crucial for present purposes, nor are the details of the varying accounts of justification that have occupied center stage in the epistemological literature.
