"This bill has a lot of things in it which we approve of because it widens the definition of who is homeless.
The New Yorker, April 6 , 1946P. 19 A diplomatic refinement of which we approve is the use of two official languages by the U.N. Security Council.
The most obvious is that social networks are simply tools: when used for activities of which we approve – like riot clean-up, or the Arab spring – their power seems unambiguously positive.
It is also free, which we approve of greatly.
Dewey spoke of the good as the object of desires of which we approve in calm, informed reflection (E 208, 212).
Those traits of which we approve naturally (without any social contrivance), such as beneficence, clemency, and moderation, also tend to the good of individuals or all of society.
As we saw, he argues that the traits of which we approve fall into four groups: traits immediately agreeable to their possessor or to others, and traits advantageous to their possessor or to others.
For Neurath, to justify a belief or a decision meant 'to show that it fits into the whole pattern of personal life of which we approve.'(Neurath 1928/1973, 249) Rationality is thus based on historically and socially contingent values.
This is especially clear with such self-regarding virtues as prudence and industry, which we approve even when they occur in individuals who provide no benefit to us observers; this can only be explained by our sympathy with the benefits that prudence and industry bring to their possessors.
The alternative mode of calculation was based on judgment -'directly judge the desirability' of possibilities- (Neurath 1919/1973, 146), justification by showing 'that it fits into the whole pattern of personal life of which we approve' (Neurath 1928/1973, 249), and extra-logical factors, or auxiliary motives.
