Rightness

But we feel justified in calling your attention to the fact that the human mind intuitively recognizes the "Rightness" of the living up to that which comes to us from the highest parts of the mind -- the highest product of our unfoldment.

A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897

In 1996 art historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau penned the essay "The Rightness of Wrong" (1996) which praised Baldessari's now infamous hybrid painting/photograph Wrong (1966-68) showing the artist purposefully disregarding the "rules" of photography and positioning himself in the shadow of a giant palm tree, that seems to emanate from his head, as he stands directly facing the camera in front of an ordinary tract home.

Rebecca Taylor: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Baldessari Rebecca Taylor 2010

Rightness does not live in Obama's campaign HQ anymore than it does in Hillary's. via Racialicious.

Obama Gets ... 2008

Rightness does not live in Obama's campaign HQ anymore than it does in Hillary's. via Racialicious.

SeeLight: 2008

As this comment thread reveals, there is allot of the netroots still sitting at home waiting for their “Gold Star of Moral Rightness and Persipicacity” … BTW, Mine came in the mail last week.

Matthew Yglesias » Experts Say 2007

Rightness is good government, because a necessary and sufficient condition for social order is that rightness obtain in the world.

Mohism Fraser, Chris 2009

I hope the commenting function sooths your Rightness.

Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq: "I Reserve Right As Commander In Chief To Assess Situation" 2009

Rightness and wrongness are peculiar properties, and the only way that an action can get them is by being related to a principle in one way or another.

Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009

Looking back at this period of Kipling's career in her January 1919 Atlantic article, "The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling," Katharine Fullerton Gerould sized up his fall from favor:

Who Was Kipling? 2007

As this comment thread reveals, there is allot of the netroots still sitting at home waiting for their “Gold Star of Moral Rightness and Persipicacity”

Matthew Yglesias » Experts Say 2007