Adjective : a praiseworthy motive. From Dictionary.com.
Then, we form further associations with the causes of praise and blame and thus acquire the sentiments of 'praiseworthiness' and. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Hence the praiseworthiness of faith seems to lie entirely in obedience. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
When love of praise takes the place of praiseworthiness, the defect is fatal. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Again, this act has a special aspect of praiseworthiness by reason of its object. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
On Truth imply that freedom is also the capacity for justice and the capacity for moral praiseworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Anselm] Reference
None of this is to deny the praiseworthiness of doubt and sceptical inquiry, preconditions for both good government and clear thought. From Wordnik.com. [Unthinkable? A more trusting 2011 | Editorial] Reference
This statement of fact does not in the least detract from either the importance or the praiseworthiness of the part played by Colonel Wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference
However, praiseworthiness is associated with the evaluation of the agent rather than the act, while supererogation refers primarily to the act. From Wordnik.com. [How to Kill a Missionary] Reference
This consideration, however, may have more to do with the whistle blower's praiseworthiness than with the justifiability of blowing the whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Loyalty] Reference
For its praiseworthiness and virtuousness are derived merely from its object, in so far, to wit, as it is based on the moral goodness of the virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Next to the praiseworthiness of a good Samaritan, who takes care of the houseless and the stranger, is the merit of the benevolent individual who tells you the good Samaritan's address. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
In later years, when I would try to work on judging the goodness of a society by the quality of health of the people, her endorsement of my praiseworthiness for being cancer-free would serve as a good reference point!. From Wordnik.com. [Amartya Sen - Autobiography] Reference
Yet another strategy is to divorce completely the moral appraisals of acts from the blameworthiness or praiseworthiness of the agents who undertake them, even when those agents are fully cognizant of the moral appraisals. From Wordnik.com. [Deontological Ethics] Reference
But then the direct utilitarian can appeal to the same distinctions among praiseworthiness and blameworthiness that the sanction utilitarian appeals to, while denying that her own deontic distinctions track blame and praise. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
That we give moral properties a priority in praiseworthiness over power properties as to do not with any lack of intrinsic goodness on the part of power, but in the relation between the two kinds of intrinsic goodness. posted by Brandon | 11:44 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference
Note Mill's interpretation of this theory of 'praiseworthiness.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
But the praiseworthiness of a virtue lies in the will, not in the power. From Wordnik.com. [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference
There was nothing finer than continuously to come upon praiseworthiness in your friend!. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
But the very quality which enables us to do a noble deed dulls our appreciation of our own praiseworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Bressant] Reference
On the whole, it's a quiet, relaxing LP more suited for passive than active listening, but the band throws in a few punchy songs that give the record variety and praiseworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Michigan Daily] Reference
His logical coolness of expostulation with her when she cast aside the silly mission entrusted to her by Sir Willoughby and wept for herself, was unheroic in proportion to its praiseworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lee Randolph argue that as a result of recent advances in behavioral and neural science it is hard to preserve any meaningful concept of moral blame or praiseworthiness. From Wordnik.com. [CADRE Comments] Reference
There can be no righteousness in man back of his heart, for nothing back of this can be voluntary; therefore, there can be no righteousness in the nature of man in the sense that implies praiseworthiness or virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Power From On High] Reference
It is when I think of the ghastly horror of our own great central cities that I feel at once the praiseworthiness and the hopelessness of all attempts to succour effectually the immense mass of those who need charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference
In this passage, therefore, when the phrase "conspicuous for the praiseworthiness of their lives" is used, it is evident that the wise, in other words the philosophers, were so called less because of their erudition than by reason of their virtuous lives. From Wordnik.com. [Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes] Reference
And again: “When these fundamentals were established in the hearts of this people, they everywhere acted in such wise that, in the estimation of those in authority, they became famous for the integrity of their character, the steadfastness of their hearts, the purity of their motives, the praiseworthiness of their deeds, and the excellence of their conduct.”. From Wordnik.com. [God Passes By] Reference
Before his time those who were regarded as conspicuous for the praiseworthiness of their lives were called wise men, but he, on being asked of his profession, replied that he was a philosopher, that is to say a student or a lover of wisdom, because it seemed to him unduly boastful to call himself a wise man. ". From Wordnik.com. [Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes] Reference
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