Passions can oppose what we approve on reflection, and it is what we approve on reflection that is considered 'rational.' Moreover, reflective evaluations are what ground moral judgments.
So we work hard on what we approve to execute as a project.
Transformation is the transformation not only of what we are, but of what we associate with and what we approve, of our loves and our values.
But under further questioning, he added, "After any incident we go back and look at regulatory structure, what we've approved and try to find if there is something we missed, some risk we didn't account for or didn't expect".
"The vehicle has been fitted with so much armor that its total weight exceeds what we can approve," said Bjorn Olberg, head of the motor-vehicle inspection station where the prime minister's staff took the car to be registered.
We mark out our in-group by barfing out our judgments about what and whom we approve and despise.
But right now I'm concerned with those first few steps into the Internet beyond the walls of what we've pre-approved.
On this conception, what we prefer or approve of when we make a moral judgement is having a property in an essentially first personal way.
Self-interest, he maintains, cannot explain why we approve what we do, and in particular, why we identify with those of benevolent character.
By endorsing the ill-advised and divisive United Nations' war against Katanga, we approved what amounts to a double-standard policy by the United Nations and opposed the serious interests of England, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
