English Dictionary

oughtness

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 稀用

(chiefly philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory. / (rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.

日本語の意味

倫理学において、行為が道徳的に義務付けられている、あるいは果たすべき役割を果たしているという性質。 / 稀な用例として、物事があるべき状態にある、すなわち正しさや適切さを備えているという特徴。

Philosophers debated whether the oughtness of helping a stranger depends on intention or outcome.

哲学者たちは、見知らぬ人を助けることを道徳的に義務づける性質が、意図によるのか結果によるのかを議論した。

意味（1）

(chiefly philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.

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.

意味（2）

(rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.

意味（3）

(rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

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.

oughtnesses （ plural ）