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Substantiivi
- (chiefly philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
- (rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
- (rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.
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Esimerkit
- Every attempt to derive oughtness from rightness must, as we have shown, either end in an illogical system or destroy the possiblity of a separate science of Ethics at all.
- Oughtness, may I suggest, consists in the power which a greater good has over a lesser good in compelling our choices.
- Combining the reality of politics with a sense of "oughtness" creates a sense of duty to the collective.
- I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
Taivutusmuodot
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