praiseworthiness

Then, we form further associations with the causes of praise and blame and thus acquire the sentiments of 'praiseworthiness' and

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868

None of this is to deny the praiseworthiness of doubt and sceptical inquiry, preconditions for both good government and clear thought.

Unthinkable? A more trusting 2011 | Editorial 2011

However, praiseworthiness is associated with the evaluation of the agent rather than the act, while supererogation refers primarily to the act.

How to Kill a Missionary 2009

This consideration, however, may have more to do with the whistle blower's praiseworthiness than with the justifiability of blowing the whistle.

Loyalty Kleinig, John 2007

On Truth imply that freedom is also the capacity for justice and the capacity for moral praiseworthiness.

Saint Anselm Williams, Thomas 2007

But then the direct utilitarian can appeal to the same distinctions among praiseworthiness and blameworthiness that the sanction utilitarian appeals to, while denying that her own deontic distinctions track blame and praise.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

Yet another strategy is to divorce completely the moral appraisals of acts from the blameworthiness or praiseworthiness of the agents who undertake them, even when those agents are fully cognizant of the moral appraisals.

Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007

Now obedience to a superior is due in accordance with the divinely established order of things, as shown above A. 1, and therefore it is a good, since good consists in mode, species, and order, as Augustine states.6 Again, this act has a special aspect of praiseworthiness by reason of its object.

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

That we give moral properties a priority in praiseworthiness over power properties as to do not with any lack of intrinsic goodness on the part of power, but in the relation between the two kinds of intrinsic goodness. posted by Brandon | 11:44 PM

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

That we give moral properties a priority in praiseworthiness over power properties as to do not with any lack of intrinsic goodness on the part of power, but in the relation between the two kinds of intrinsic goodness. posted by Brandon | 11:44 PM

Impeccability and Omnipotence 2005