| 词汇 | greater-good |
| 释义 | BETA greater goodcollocation in Englishmeanings of goodThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. good noun uk /ɡʊd/ us /ɡʊd/ something that is an advantage or help to a person ... See more at good Examples of greater goodgreater good Yet deontologists characteristically hold that we have no right to inflict great evil on any individual to bring about the greatergood. Our sin is rather in not holding out for an even greatergood. But even if someone's causal role need only be to sustain a greatergood, this could also involve subordination. A plausible greatergood is not far away. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greatergood shared by others. Can healthy individuals be forced to take medications either because it would serve a greatergood or because of competitive pressures? And in the broader scheme of things, patients are contributing (although often unknowingly) to the greatergood by serving as teaching material for future doctors. Does the lesser evil of the one being hit in this case produce the greatergood, or just sustain it? What safeguards can be put in place to ensure that damages to persons will not be minimized for the sake of "a greatergood"? This allows us to say that the lesser evil doesn't actually produce the greatergood, but rather only sustains it, by defeating defeaters to it. Paying attention to the "potboiler," is to pay attention to art that changes property relations, just not for the greatergood. In this way, the death of the one serves to sustain the greatergood that we have initially partially attained by our redirection. This aim alone clarifies the role and obligation of medical societies to support the greatergood rather than their turf and membership. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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