oughtness

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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