moral justification
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandjustification
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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justification
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdʒʌs.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒʌs.tə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a good reason or explanation ...
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(Definition ofmoralandjustificationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Traditional condescension is based on the premise that a ritualized recognition of existing authority relationships can work toward theirmoraljustification.
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Do these forms of collective action requiremoraljustification?
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They involve the legal specification, to the required degree of exactness, of an obligation having a backgroundmoraljustificationbut not being-qua specific obligation-moral.
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Moraljustificationfor the use of new technologies, therefore, requires the articulation of as many values and stakeholders as possible.
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Those debates also show how any ethical theory of international law must be able to find amoraljustificationfor special duties.
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It is in these alternatives, if anywhere, that themoraljustificationfor proceeding on the basis of legal consent must reside.
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What should thatmoraljustificationlook like?
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With nothing else to securemoraljustification, diverse or conflicting social practices seem to stand beyond rational approval or condemnation.
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These examples illustrate my contention that themoraljustificationfor collective action differs depending on circumstances, goals, and intended or foreseeable consequences.
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An appeal to forced altruism is no more promising as amoraljustification.
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But in what relation must the individual practitioner stand to the community of practitioners in order for this line ofmoraljustificationto be valid?
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Another potential criterion is the level of popular support for the government : a government's lack of legitimacy almost by definition diminishes themoraljustificationfor obeying its laws.
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Only in rather exceptional cases have women's lawyers at least indirectly questioned themoraljustification of the husband's right of repudiation, invoking the principle of mutual respect between the spouses.
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Hart thought he could articulate law's necessar y and sufficient conditions without making any claims about themoraljustificationof legal systems or legal rules.
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Through decentered prose, artists questioned the existence of objective reality and in so doing implicitly challenged the cold war'smoraljustificationeven as they accepted the necessity of its existence.
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Themoraljustificationfor this approach is that the originally intended recipient receives an organ while no one else on the waiting list is put at a disadvantage.
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Furthermore, it is not clear why willingness on the part of the parent ismoraljustificationfor permitting the child to engage in a particular action.
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Kelsen regardedmoraljustificationas an ideological matter to be excluded from a "pure" theory of law.
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