Sentences with phrase «validity of any social action»

An association that makes common decisions governing all social action does not honor each individual's right to dissent from the moral validity of any social action unless the association prevents other individuals from violating its governing decisions.

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Accordingly, the remainder of this essay will proceed as follows: I will first seek to show that the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity includes a principle of social action by which a universal community of rights is constituted, so that no moral theory can be valid if it is inconsistent with these rights.

Indeed, ad hoc engagements in discourse always presuppose this widest possible discourse because any argument about the validity of social prescriptions is potentially an argument about the most general moral principles and thus about social action generally.

As a derivation from the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity, the specific practice of moral discourse both implies and is implied by — and, in that sense, belongs to — a principle that constitutes social action universally.