“The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.” HumansMadeLife IsSocialEffortTheoryOughtJudgmentIntellectualHuman LifeRejectionRejectsLogicalWorth LivingLife Is Worth LivingSocial Theory Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” StatesWholeGovernmentCareFormSpiritUnitedPowerUnited StatesSupportNovelFieldsObjectsTheoryFitAuthorityJudgmentLettersConstitutionAssumingUnionsCharityContraryWelfareProvidingPhilanthropyLegislationFederal GovernmentCalamitySubversivePropriety Author:Franklin Pierce
“Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.” MenMindRealSoundExistencePracticeInfluenceTheoryJudgmentDelusionRejectedFallacyDiscrepanciesTheory And PracticeDiscrepancies Between Book:A Manual of Applied Mechanics Source: A Manual of Applied Mechanics
“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.” WellsKindLongMadeMotherOur LivesTheoryTypeJudgmentPerceptionSummerLong TimeInstrumentsPsychologicalMade ItOur FamilyPreferenceIntroversionJung Author:Isabel Briggs Myers
“I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.” PeopleIfsWorldHeartWholeFoundMy OwnExistenceProgressCreationJudgingTheoryJudgmentUnderstoodIntellectI RealizedJustifyRationality Author:Leo Tolstoy
“For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.” PeopleWayLawCertainOrderLanguageCasesTheoryJudgmentOrdinaryAbsolutesCriminalsClarityOne WayBehaveCrucialOrdinary LifeFinality Author:Talal Asad
“Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'” MenWould BeLawNaturalViewsAcceptingOpinionPrinciplesParticularJudgingTheoryHigherJudgmentOrdinaryConscienceStatementsAbsurdityInvitedRule Of LawNatural LawOrdinary ManConsonantsJurorsHigher Law Author:John Adams
“Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.” DifferentUsedKnowingTheoryJudgmentStandardsAidsNorm Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay and lesbian judges. The theory being that they're going to be incapable of a disinterested judgment on matters that involve their own identity groups. And it came up famously for Constance Baker Motley who was one of the first African American federal judges in a case involving sex discrimination.” FirstsKindMatterSexCasesGroupsIdentityColorJudgingTheoryGayJudgmentSorryDiscriminationAfrican AmericanBiasIncapableInvolvingBakersDisinterestedFederal JudgesSex Discrimination Author:Deborah Rhode
“Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then you do know whether or not you see a barn. You have "animal" knowledge, says my virtue theory, through the first-order aptness of your judgment.” IfsKnowsFirstsRealOrderAnimalViewsVirtueTheoryShapesJudgmentSunlightBarns Author:Ernest Sosa
“Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.” NeedsMatterReasonMightActionDecisionAttitudePrinciplesConditionsTheoryOughtOffersJudgmentIndependentObjectivesRelatedJustifyMetaphysicalProceduresTrackingObjective Truth Author:Allen W. Wood
“Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.” WayFirstsHumansDoeThreeLevelsMoralPrinciplesCasesVirtueConditionsParticularDutyTheoryJudgmentFundamentalsDoctrineHuman LifeInterpretationEthicalApplicationMetaphysicsImperativesFundamental PrinciplesGroundworkSpecificationsCategorical Imperative Author:Allen W. Wood
“The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.” ThinkingProblemFormAnswersResultsMoralTheoryJudgmentGood JudgmentUtilitarianismWrong AnswersConsequentialism Author:Allen W. Wood