Sentence examples similar to self-justifying value from inspiring English sources

Beside the reliability concern, there is also the worry that value judgments in general are not self-justifying, so it is not clear why judgments embedded in emotion would justify further belief.

But that would be cynical and self-justifying.

The PRs have set-up a wonderfully self-justifying system.

"It becomes a self-justifying system," he said.

At best, they offer only partial and self-justifying accounts.

"He's more human and less self-justifying," Patrick said.

The principles become lost, and the political rewards become self-justifying".

And yet she's hypnotized by John's blowhard, self-justifying anger.

Egotistical and self-justifying, Woody is largely uninterested in the people around him.

And this is where Slaughter's essay turns implausible and self-justifying.

This is how we live: greedily, enviously, superficially, in a state of endless, self-justifying desire.