Sentences with phrase «by ethical ideals»

Decisions within the corporate world are shaped not merely by ethical ideals but also by economic, social, political and legal constraints.

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Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

However far from the ethical ideal it may be in practice, it is always in a measure guided by it and responsive to it.

Reinhold stresses not the contrast between the good of the whole and defeat of the self - assertive individual parts, but rather the gap between the ideal and actuality — between the absolute ethical ideals that humans conceive and the limited goals that can actually be achieved by collective action.

The panexperientialist version of physicalism does justice to this fact by portraying the mind in each moment (that is, each dominant occasion of experience) as having both a physical pole, which is constituted by the causal influences from the physical environment, and a mental pole, which entertains ideal possibilities, including logical, ethical, and aesthetic norms.

Reinhold claims that a tragic view of history is necessary to help the Christian negotiate the gap between the ethical ideal and the possibilities attainable by human collective action.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

However inapplicable to immediate conditions in this present age some precepts in the New Testament may seem to be, the ethical ideals of the New Testament as a whole have gone ahead of the race like a pillar of fire by night and of cloud by day.

The mental categories in which these developments of moral idea and ideal were taking place were various — sometimes apocalyptic, more often not — and in no case can one judge the value of the ethical insights that emerged by the mental patterns which happened to give them temporary housing.

We proudly partner with farmers who help us create this ideal by producing our sugars in a safe and ethical way without sacrificing superior quality or harming the land.

To determine the ideal mitigation policy, a research team led by Princeton University, the University of Vermont and the University of Texas at Austin employed a climate - economic model to examine two ethical approaches to valuing human population.

We proudly partner with farmers who help us create this ideal by producing our sugars in a safe and ethical way without sacrificing superior quality or harming the land.