Good business sense isn't the same
as good ethics, but sound business decisions are a pretty good start at avoiding ethical conflicts and dilemmas.
Not exact matches
But,
as satisfying
as the notion of showing some backbone may have been, InBev's cynical bet on the industry's
ethics turned out to be
well placed.
The study doesn't stop at
ethics but looks at legality
as well.
We regard it
as a detestable compromise of
ethics and
good sense.»
And because millennials place so much value on quality and
ethics, they prefer to use technology to take care of the busywork — online meeting and web conferencing services such
as ClickMeeting and Huddle (both virtual communication platforms),
as well as workflow optimization and project management platforms such
as Memit and WorkflowMax are just a few tools millennials rely on for collaboration and productivity in the workplace.
Remember,
ethics is fundamentally concerned with the choices we make — either
as individuals or
as companies — when those choices have an impact on people's
well - being or their rights.
«
As a farm boy growing up in Indiana, my parents instilled in me a very
good work
ethic, but when I went to college at 17, I had no goal, no idea where I wanted to be.»
Invoking history, physics, biology, climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on
ethics and environmentalism
as well as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.
As important as financial readiness and work ethic are in choosing your franchisees, the subjective value of how well the candidate fits into your organization's values and culture may be even more importan
As important
as financial readiness and work ethic are in choosing your franchisees, the subjective value of how well the candidate fits into your organization's values and culture may be even more importan
as financial readiness and work
ethic are in choosing your franchisees, the subjective value of how
well the candidate fits into your organization's values and culture may be even more important.
In a report published May 20, RBC analysts Sara O'Brien and Elaine Lae questioned how long it would take for SNC to improve their future earnings, «given recent management reorganization, focus on
ethics & compliance
as well as practical distraction created by management changes and external investigations.»
AAPL serves
as a catalyst for industry growth by fostering awareness, promoting
best practices, and encouraging a standardized code of
ethics for its membership.
The boardroom trends that are «hot» right now, says Richard Leblanc, associate professor in law, governance and
ethics at York University, are those that are examining «over-boarded [and] over-tenured directors,»
as well as tackling board diversity and experience.
I want to thank Brian for his tireless work
ethic and sharing his drive campaigning
as well as the many mornings, evenings and nights that he spent working toward the growth of social democracy in Alberta.
The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable has rebranded into the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable
as the organization seeks to more accurately represent
ethics and
best practices across the entire universe of alternative investments, not just within the hedge fund industry.
Uber receipts are difficult to handle
as well, a pain when doing expenses, Lyft is a much
better experience for receipts, tipping and not to mention they hold a much higher standard of
ethics as a business which counts.
I stand opposed to prostituion because it's also not an
ethic 95 % — 98 % of the world accept
as legal (or
good / productive for their societies / communities).
Even though that religion has promoted
ethics in human societies, which has served humanity fairly
well, the above hypothesis has created problematic culture in human societies, which is harmful to animals, environment, and humanity
as a whole.
No matter how
well the contraception
ethic is preached, even if proclaimed from the president's bully pulpit, there will never be 100 percent compliance, just
as there is never one hundred percent compliance with any preached
ethic.
Actually
ethics can just
as easily be based on what is
good for the group, in all it's diversity.
But such virtues
as compassion, respect, and toleration are shared by morals and manners, and hence form the basis of imperatives of
ethics,
as well as of etiquette.
«For it has been a characteristic of that
ethic to teach that there are certain things forbidden whatever consequences threaten, such
as choosing to kill the innocent for any purpose, however
good.»
Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic University of America Press, 342 pages, $ 69.95 When the Christian churches incorporated «human rights»
as a philosophy and project, did they take on an
ethic that corrupts their
best....
It was not in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious
ethic which involved a social
as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God.
No to Privatization «red in tooth and claw»; yes to Public Sector without political corruption; no to Liberalization, with market exploitation; yes to Liberation from exploitative coercion; no to globalization
as domination of world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism in sharing and caring for the suffering humanity and
Good Samaritan
ethic - these should be evolved and situated in Third World conditions and perspectives.
Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just
as the Stoics said the ideal was to have
good will toward all but not in such fashion
as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their
ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»
Who needs ~ a «work» day to fall BETWEEN the High Day Sabbath... and the WEEKLY Sabbath ~ if the proper DUTIES of the ~ High Day Sabbath ~ pertained precisely the ~» work» ~ of the particular ~ High Day Sabbath ~ «according to the customary
ethics of the Jews» — THE LAW — DEMANDED such ~» work» ~ shall be done by the faithful, «
good and just» «disciple» and «honourable counsellor» of the LAW — such
as Joseph and Nicodemus who «themselves», have «waited for the Kingdom of God» and these, very «three days» in its messianic «GLORY»?
Just
as the Stoics said the ideal was to have
good will toward all but not in such fashion
as to depend in any degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their
ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.8
In any event, developed Christian theology rejected nothing
good in the metaphysics,
ethics, or method of ancient philosophy, but — with a kind of omnivorous glee — assimilated such elements
as served its ends, and always improved them in the process.
This dual focus on reason and
ethics similarly explains the close attention religious liberals have paid to the sciences — physics
as a source for
better cosmologies, and the biological and social sciences
as a source for both
ethics and philosophies of history.
too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory, religion,
ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many others are all so inextricably intertwined with each other that it may be
better to think of them
as different views of the same object rather than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)
Theological Liberalism is thus a kind of consecration of all the
best ethics and science and philosophy regarded
as the manifestation or revelation of the will of God to man.»
A colleague of mine, Gary Gutting, published an article in the New York Times this past Easter arguing that the core of the Catholic faith is a commitment to an
ethics of love, and that the historical teachings of the faith are
best taken
as useful parables.
A responsible
ethic demands that we consider the
good of the whole of society, temporally
as well as geographically.
Again like the parables of Jesus, Thoreau's tale is built upon a new and radical metaphor which serves
well as the basic metaphor for all stories that teach the
ethic of eco-justice.
With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and
ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content
as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human
well - being and the
well - being of the wider creation.
But the consequences go beyond
ethics and ecology and demand a theological response
as well.
From the perspective of those who see
ethics in such cross-generational terms
as never to neglect the
well - being of the not - yet - born, nothing is more strikingly characteristic of Western systematic
ethics than its failure to concern itself with the beautiful ones.
The critique carries over into
ethics as well, with the rejection of the dualism of
good and evil, right and wrong.
From what has been said thus far, it is obvious that the liberty of individuals to pursue private
good is the major moral concern of the new reformers and for this reason their ethical views can fairly be seen
as a variety of the contractarian social
ethic now increasingly characteristic of political society.
The apologists saw Christianity
as the fulfillment of the
best of Hellenistic monotheistic philosophy, and not infrequently boasted about the superiority of Christianity
as a religion and an
ethic.
I see
ethics, spirituality, catechetics, preaching, and all pastoral counsel
as needing to be informed and regulated by theological interpretation of Scripture, and I do not expect to see any
good practical Christianity where this discipline is neglected.
So when the agnostics, atheists, etc. of the world come up to someone like him and discuss evolutionary theory, situational
ethics from an historical worldview, or why God allowed the cast of «Jersey Shore» to be born, he'll just remember how he flunked the quiz and rely on his «simple faith»
as «all
good Christians do»..
Successful pursuit of the global
ethic project requires us to be humble about our own «little conversions,»
as Karl Barth once put it, and thus to be willing to find the
best in those with whom we disagree.
Here - in Genesis 1 - 11, in the Sabbath ordinance, in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs - we find a God concerned with our play
as well as our work, our aesthetics
as well as our
ethics.
In other words, mental health deals with the
well - being of that which in Christian
ethics is regarded
as the most precious part of God's creation — personality.
Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,»
as well as in books such
as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social
ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.
If MacIntyre is captive to the terms of this disjunction, it is because, with Aristotle, he fails to distinguish adequately two branches of knowledge: eudaimonology, the object of which is human happiness and the means to attain it; and
ethics, the object of which is human conduct in the light of reason
as differentiating
good from evil.
'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire
as the basis for
ethics,
ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries,
ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how
well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»
Christian
ethics has a knowledge of why other ethical systems concentrate on the knowledge of
good and evil, but rejects this goal
as being a false one.
It is laughable what they actually thought of him
as a football players,
good work
ethic, definitely not a
good QB.