Exempel på rightness

• There is also the question of how such an identification can support judgments of intrinsic rightness and wrongness.

• Yet the suggestion that we see the characters in opera as composers of what they sing has an intuitive feel of rightness about it.

• It is about the internal structure of goodness, not about the relation between rightness and goodness.

• Utilitarians try to distinguish between the rightness of the act and the goodness of the agent, taking ethics to be concerned primarily with the former.

• Let us suppose, suppressing doubts, that this sort of action driven by the rational apprehension of rightness is achievable.

• For in this case, rightness is no particular moral virtue but rather the master virtue of acting morally, all things considered.

• According to anti-reductionist consequentialism, action optimality and rightness are distinct properties, and a thing has the latter because it has the former.

• And if the morality of right- and wrongdoing does not exhaust morality, the claim that rightness is law's first virtue is a truism.

• But if the morality of right- and wrongdoing exhausts morality, the claim that rightness is law's first virtue is false.

• Like the dog who has rightness of will naturally, the angel who wills rightly as a matter of necessity is neither just nor unjust.

• So whatever concerns you have about the relation between rightness and goodness, they should not lead you to doubt consequentialism.

• Consequentialists have pointed out that a person's decision procedure need not be equivalent to the criterion of rightness that they affirm.

• But business was convinced of the rightness of its approach.

• But it is not enough simply to possess rightness of will and hence will what one ought to will.

• The just will must step back and will that very rightness of will.