Sentence examples for rightness claims from inspiring English sources
Authenticity claims, unlike truth and rightness claims, do not come with such a strong consensual expectation.
Truth and rightness claims, by contrast, are susceptible to argumentative justification in the proper sense, through what Habermas calls "strict discourses".
Moral rightness claims and empirical truth claims are justified by reasons that should be acceptable to a universal audience, whereas ethical claims are addressed to those who share a particular history and tradition of values.
In both cases, the appropriate audience for the testing of claims is universal, and in making a truth or rightness claim one counterfactually presupposes that a universal consensus would result, were the participants able to pursue a sufficiently inclusive and reasonable discourse for a sufficient length of time.
Thus fully successful speech acts, insofar as they involve these three world relations, must satisfy the demands connected with these three basic validity claims (sincerity, rightness, and truth) in order to be acceptable.
They had a claim to "rightness" that led ultimately to the abandonment of all Gothic forms as being barbarous.
But what is more notable is the essential rightness of the initial claim: that dramatic increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (readily observable in 1970) would eventually lead to a warming of the planet.
Many environmental philosophers regard claim (4) as the moral maxim of Leopold's land ethic; it claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by reference to the consequences of those actions a familiar consequentialist ethical principle.
Despite the rightness of the Caribbean nations' claim, European governments are likely to respond similarly this time.
Other responses claim that moral rightness depends on foreseen, foreseeable, intended, or likely consequences, rather than actual ones.
Besides, anyone who wants to pick out a smaller set of moral theories that excludes this absurd theory may talk about evaluative consequentialism, which is the claim that moral rightness depends only on the value of the consequences.
