| 单词 |
oughtness |
| 释义 |
oughtness|ˈɔːtnɪs|
[f. ought 5 + -ness.]
That quality of an action which is expressed by ‘ought’; moral obligatoriness.
1879J. Cook Lect. Conscience i, Every motive has two sides—rightness or its opposite, and oughtness or its opposite... Conscience is that which perceives and feels rightness and oughtness in motives. 1888H. C. Bowen in Jrnl. Educ. 1 Nov. 521/1 To stimulate and direct..this sense of obligation, of ‘oughtness’. 1918[see good a. 14 c]. 1931W. M. Urban Fund. Ethics i. 9 The forms of conduct or behavior which have this character of oughtness are then called standards or norms. 1948A. O'Rahilly Moral Princ. iv. 21 On the occasion of experience we see the oughtness of certain acts, we have an intuitive appreciation of an objective moral order. 1958R. C. Angell Free Society & Moral Crisis ii. 16 The peculiar power of our moral lenses is to pick out and see clearly all the elements in society that reveal ‘how oughtness is organized’. 1967D. von Hildebrand Trojan Horse in City of God xxv. 190 The victory of truth and value is the fulfillment of an oughtness. |
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