Upon examination, saying that someone states a meritorious claim to be judged by a valid rule turns out to be equivalent to saying that severability cannot cure the claimed violation.
If this view were adopted, there would be no point in praising someone for meritorious conduct; there would similarly be no point in reproaching him for misconduct.
If one does not want to die from foreseeable asphyxia in the final stages of a terminal disease, one's meritorious dignity should not be thus tested.
Whether reason is right or erroneous, the act of the will must be in conformity to reason in order to be meritorious.
However, it is surely plausible that it is valuable that someone freely refrained from doing what is immoral, since then this refraining is meritorious.
It is argued that the majority of the challenges from brain and behavior, although meritorious, can nonetheless be incorporated within the planning-control model.
This is the view that "the good life consists of excellent (meritorious or worthy) activity" (75).
I arrived at about the time this meritorious journal was launched.
