Meaning of oughtness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
   countable, rare, uncountable
3. The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.
   countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Every attempt⟳ to derive oughtness from rightness must, as we have⟳ shown, either end⟳ in an illogical system or destroy⟳ the possibility 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.”

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