One possibility is that empathy does indeed cause a genuinely altruistic desire to help—an ultimate desire for the well being of the sufferer.
It means appreciating that paying attention to everyone else's self-interest -- in other words, the common welfare -- is in fact a precondition for one's own ultimate well-being".
"Not in my lifetime … has there been a candidate for president who actually makes me fear for the ultimate well-being of the country, a candidate who might in fact put at risk the solid foundation of America that allows us to endure even ill-advised policies and the normal ebb and flow of politics," Weld said.
Murdoch's ultimate sin may well be to result in inhibiting the press in this country even further".
But the ultimate judgment may well be that he performed the vital service of holding his party together when it was dangerously polarised between Healey and Tony Benn.
"I hope MPs will decline to support it as the ultimate impact might well be to kill my bill, which would only help those who don't want any referendum at all".
Still, it is striking that in an election that has so far turned on the idea of change, the ultimate winner could very well be a United States senator, typically the epitome of the Washington elite.
If individual agents and public officials are liable through limited cognitive ability, limited knowledge, or limited allegiance to morality to misapply ultimate principles, it might well be the case that these principles could be implemented to a greater degree if they were not employed directly as decision-making guides for individual and public policy choice.
Not surprisingly, lemonade stands, which might well be the ultimate in nostalgia, are enormously popular.
A completely fatigued, jaded America, impervious to such manipulation, may well be its ultimate antidote.
Finally, the measurement of a host of rock properties may well be the ultimate key to correlation of separated outcrops.
