Moral justification

One can after all understand that these Polish authors made their careers in Communist Poland, and, as Polish patriots, can under no circumstances permit the undermining of Auschwitz as a moral justification for the Polish ethnic cleansing of the East Prussians, East Pomeranians, and Silesians after the end of World War Two, as a result... 

There are more dangerous possibilities lurking in this kind of utopian fantasy, such as the mania for curing patients regardless of their wishes and the killing of persons under the guise of suicide as treatment. Most importantly, therapeutic zealotry fosters the erroneous belief that a medical diagnosis is a moral justification for a medical treatment. It is not. In a free society, medical... 

David Eric Nachmanoff, A Moral Justification for the Right to National Sef-determination, Ph.D. Thesis on file at University of California-Davis (1997). 

It is important that the moral justification for interference with another s freedom, even if only in relation to particular powers protected by the right in question, be connected to the general status of the parties with respect to one another. Claims to interfere that are based on the general character of activities or persons rather than on the mutual status of individuals engaged in free and reciprocal relations do not constitute justifications of a right. Thus, moralistic or a racist interference with the freedom of others cannot be justified, because the submission it implies cannot be said to be owed or due to the individuals who interfere. No voluntary transactions have warranted the interference. 

Bentham argues that use of animals for human good, if carried out as humanely as possible, is justified if it results in an overall benefit to humans. Thus, harm inflicted to one species is justified if it results in overall benefit to another. This justification assumes an inherent moral superiority of humans over the animals being experimented upon. Such arguments meet their greatest challenge when the test subjects are necessarily primates (e.g., HIV research) a degree of self-awareness can be deduced in these species, and yet their consent is obviously absent. 

American Civilization and be morally justified in doing so. In fact, I was already an outlaw, a draft-evader, and I had just been dabbling with forbidden fruits in a most serious way, as a scientist practicing his art in defiance of the law of the land. How rare the opportunity to be able to practice a forbidden science in this day and age The concept itself put paid to many arrogant assumptions about the rationality of the American way of Life and its justification for eliminating any and all competition to its oxymoronic Philosophy. 

First, these questions have obvious entanglements with ideological and metaphysical issues. On the one hand, philosophical precommitments influence the plausibility criteria by which theories are assessed. On the other hand, scientific conclusions have implications for the justification of theological and moral belief. We will clearly see these dynamics at work in the controversies that follow. 

Moral Small differences from expected chemical symmetry are difficult to assess in a given crystal structure and recourse should be made to several crystal structures before such differences are used as justification for a given theoretical aigument. 

Gert, B. 1988. Morality A New Justification of the Moral Rules. New York Oxford University Press. 

Rush tried to find a way out. The solution he offered—like so many psychiatric solutions of moral dilemmas—provided a scientific justification for the status quo. 

For the Greeks education was an important part of politics. It formed men much more for their country than for themselves or for their family. This principle cannot be adopted for any but small populations where there is better justification for assuming the existence of a national interest that is different from the interests of the whole of humanity. It is practicable only in countries where the really hard work in riculture and in the arts and crafts is carried out by slaves. This education was virtually limited to physical exercises, the principles of morality and the habits proper to arousing a jealous patriotism ever5rthing else could be learnt without restriction in the schools of philosophers or rhetoricians and in the studios of artists — and this liberty is yet another cause of the superiority of the Greeks. 

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