Sentences with phrase «accepted ethical teaching»

The most widely accepted ethical teaching in that century was utilitarianism.

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In one aspect they are addressed to all and sundry, laying down the lines of an absolute ethic determined by the coming of the kingdom of God; but insofar as individuals accept them as such, and commit themselves, the new Israel is being formed, and the ethical teaching of Jesus becomes the new law by which it is to be governed.

It appears, then, that the ethical portions of the epistles are based upon an accepted pattern of teaching which goes back to a very early period indeed, and whose general form and content can be determined with considerable probability.

«Hence there is a place for ethical teaching, not as «interim ethics,» but as a moral ideal for men who have «accepted the Kingdom of God,» and live their lives in the presence of his judgment and His grace, now decisively revealed.»

The commonly accepted — but narrow — definition of student «success» that centers on academic achievement dismisses research documenting life - long payoffs of a «whole child - centered» approach to teaching and learning that accounts for children's cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and ethical development.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order.

«Teaching the ethical frameworks of other religions in a neutral way may be a delicate exercise,» the decision states, «but the fact that there are difficulties in implementation does not mean the state should be asked to throw up its hands and abandon its objectives by accepting a program that frames the discussion of ethics primarily through the moral lens of a school's own religion.»