Sentences with phrase «as ethicist»

Are there cultural influences at the root of your answers as The Ethicist?

As an ethicist he moved from the imperatives of the gospel ethic of sacrificial love to the requirements of ambiguous situations, always under the mediation of the principles of justice — freedom, equality and order.

«The Good Egg» draws a link between the viability of the egg before conception and the intrinsic value of the embryo: «If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?»

If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?

Is there, as some ethicists have argued, a «right to one's unique genotype,» or genetic code — a right that cloning violates?

Not exact matches

Speaking of the blurry line between humans and AI, ethicists have explored questions such as whether it's OK to inflict violence on robots.

And by the standards laid out by ethicist Peter Singer, they qualify as positively stingy.

Recently, I interviewed Dr. Kate Darling, a robot ethicist from MIT's Media Lab as part of our streaming interview series and podcast, The Convo.

The Protestant ethicist James Gustafson keeps that impulse within a tighter discipline by his accent on the theocentric as distinct from the anthropocentric.

Hundreds of Catholic theologians (including ethicist Charles Curran, whose permission to teach as a Catholic theologian Rome would later rescind) signed a public statement that questioned the teaching.

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

In fact, as John Fletcher, ethicist at the University of Virginia, has said, «You don't have to be religious to realize that there ought to be a debate about....

Mr. Doer flinger, summarizing Smith, writes that «modern secular bio ethics often sets itself against religion, and [Smith] even quotes ethicist Daniel Callahan as saying that the «first thing» bioethics had to do to establish itself was «to push religion aside.

I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives of vanilla dualism by mean of the French feminist approached to hermaneutics.

He's not saying — and no Christian ethicist I know of would say — that lusting is morally the same as adultery, or similarly that anger is the moral equivalent of murder (see Matt.

As the experience grew in me, I found my commitments stronger than ever and, at the same time, I knew that I could not, in the words of womanist ethicist Katie Cannon, «keep on keepin» on.»

I am particularly suspicious of situation ethicists like Sinks when they plead the «Great Commandment as a basis for ending a marriage «in order that the individual might flourish.»

Moreover, medical ethics tempts the ethicist to think of the discipline primarily as dealing with particular quandaries.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

As a medical ethicist, how do you regard the use of triage in wartime and in emergency medical procedures?

This is a good opportunity for me to say publicly how much I, as an evangelical social ethicist, have been influenced by Marty's writings.

On a personal note, I am very happy to write because we as a family have much to thank Dr. Abraham for - a man who as a pastor to us lived out the principles that he teaches as a theological ethicist.

In this light, it is not the case that we would abandon a moral, religious, aesthetic or political life for a life of doing logic, but rather, we would not leave the moral life to the ethicists, the religious life to the theologians and customary religious practices, and the political life to the politicians and political scientists, just as we surely would not leave propositions in the hands of the logicians.4

But on the other hand, as a matter of course, Socrates is not an essentially religious ethicist, still less a dogmatic one, as the Christian ethicist is.

And most Christian ethicists would reject torture as an appropriate penalty for any offense.

The critique of deontological and utilitarian abstractions (as evidenced in the categorical imperative or in the exhortation to maximize happiness) offered by virtue ethicists is enhanced by Hartshorne's own critique of metaphysical abstractions.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

Dutch ethicist Hans Reinders refers to this contradiction as the «disability paradox».

Hence, too, the attention paid by leading theologians to particular ethical issues — economic, sexual, medical and biomedical, nuclear — as well as the higher visibility of theologically informed ethicists.

In September 2002, when a hundred scholars and ethicists signed a petition that read, «As Christian ethicists, we share a common moral presumption against a preemptive war on Iraq by the United States,» Elshtain was not numbered among the signatories.

«Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on the way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as unexceptionable.»

And what ethicist would want to be labeled as a gossip?

Conferences bringing representatives of religious communions together with other concerned groups — foundations, think tanks, social scientists, ethicists — dot the landscapes of developed nations and occasionally others as well.

Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).

As teacher, ethicist and theologian, I am particularly concerned about the moral and religious foundations on which we base our lives.

In October about 200 Christian ethicists issued a statement «about the erroneous use of Christian rhetoric to support the policies of empire,» as it was put by one signer, Glen Stassen, who holds an endowed chair at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Perhaps theologians and ethicists are silent on the latter issue because they view eating as relatively harmless (except in its economic ramifications).

Ethicist James Gustafson, in Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, refers to theology «as a way of construing life.»

This becomes patently clear when consultations are called to bring together scientists and ethicists on such issues as nuclear power or genetic engineering.

The strong influence of Niebuhr among the Chicago theologians was supported by interest in his thought among the ethicists as well.

Possibly no other social ethicist was as committed to realism as Reinhold Niebuhr.

Third, the ethicists I consulted and quoted in the article are national experts on the issue» it's not as if there is some key piece of information out there that the article overlooked.

Moreover, I carefully pointed out that ethicists on this issue can basically be divided into two camps: those that view aborted fetuses as cadavers of a medical procedure and think that some good should come from abortions, and those that view aborted fetuses as victims of oppression, sin, and thoughtlessness, and therefore think that these victims should not be further exploited» especially under the guise of a «good cause.»

Medical ethicists who started as theologians seem especially attached to this precept.

Nevertheless, if the issue is as depicted, ethicists will be inclined to support the proposals along with finding ways to ease the adjustment of the family farmers into urban life.

Even if the issue really were as depicted, that is, the wellbeing of the many versus that of the few, there would be reason for ethicists to examine matters with some care.

As far as I am concerned, however, the hiring of ethicists in medical schools and business schools to lecture to students about what it means to be ethical or to teach values is to try to cure the illness with but another form of the diseasAs far as I am concerned, however, the hiring of ethicists in medical schools and business schools to lecture to students about what it means to be ethical or to teach values is to try to cure the illness with but another form of the diseasas I am concerned, however, the hiring of ethicists in medical schools and business schools to lecture to students about what it means to be ethical or to teach values is to try to cure the illness with but another form of the disease.

In a newspaper interview, Sister Pat Talone, the hospital's ethicist, defended the committee's recommendation to withdraw treatment by saying that the group «examines medical reality as well as social, spiritual, and ethical principles before making a recommendation.»

The theological rationale for withdrawing feedings from the so «called «vegetative» person was first provided by such ethicists as Father Kevin O'Rourke, now director emeritus of The Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis.

Forty - five new health professional leaders, ethicists, consumers, and policy makers from all sectors attended as invited Delegates.