Without this, we can hardly use them as our basis for
ethical action in the twentieth century.
«Seeing the other» is for this reason of central significance, not only
for ethical action, but for love, friendship, teaching, and psychotherapy.
In contrast, these self - other differences were much weaker in evaluations
of ethical actions.
As you will see in the example below, we are talking
about ethical actions to gain traction in building a new business model.
You can use opportunities for decision - making to help your child
take ethical action and see the positive results in her daily life.
We examine the obstacles to
ethical action in many areas of our lives and develop tools to help people perform at their best.
The results revealed an asymmetry in the point at which they tipped: people required about four unethical actions to decide that Barbara had appreciably changed for the worse, but about six
equivalently ethical actions to decide that Barbara appreciably changed for the better.
In God is Not Great, Hitchens wrote: «Name one ethical statement made, or one
ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever.
But Singer could be right about
ethical actions without being right about whether those actions are always desirable.
Maritain held that action in the world —
whether ethical action among individuals or political action among systems, institutions, and groups — is always action among existents, among real sinners and saints and all those in between, not among purely «rational agents.»
However Ritschlianism was already giving way to the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose philosophy of religion centred in a decided preference for cultic experience
over ethical action, and whose historical reconstruction saw primitive Christianity orientated like other Hellenistic religions to the cult's dying and rising Lord, rather than to the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount.
In process thought we see a balance drawn between the individuation required for
responsible ethical action and the sense of relatedness to the «All» that participation in the cosmic whole requires.
What gives legal or
ethical actions theirsignificance is never merely their accordance with a rule, but the fact they follow from an agent's conscious judgment to do so.
Political office holders like the National Organizer and Deputy Secretary General of political parties are mandated by the spirit of the 1992 Constitution to
exhibit ethical actions and conduct in their relationship with the public and their party members.
Institute for Global Ethics IGE is dedicated to
promoting ethical action by exploring the global common ground of values, elevating awareness, and providing practical tools for making ethical decisions.
A scientist who advocates policies to reduce emissions — really the
only ethical action for someone who understands the science — and / or a scientist who is part of a team that actually makes climate projections — is inherently biased?
Second, and relatedly, if we want to take
ethical action in education, we shouldn't try to go it alone.
The freedom of the spirit is maintained so long as the meaning
of ethical action is kept as response to the love of God rather than simply as obedience to law.
Modern debates about the existence of God are primarily about whether or not a «useful» God is necessary to guarantee the possibility of
ethical action.
With them, he decided that
ethical action can not be inferred from a set of rules, like the Ten Commandments, or Hammurabi's code, or Kant's categorical imperative to «act in such a way that the maxim of your action could be universally applied.»
Sartre asks, «Can there be
any ethical action in a world divided by class?»
; Solzhenitsyn asks, «Can there be
any ethical action in a world dominated by a global philosophy?»
(I and Thou, p. 33)
Ethical action is not altruism and self - denial.
The ultimate ethical consequence of this radical split between I - Thou and I - It is a de-emphasis on the possibility and significance of
ethical action and a tendency to reduce man to the role of passive recipient of grace.
It never challenges the scientism and materialism of the American elite, and it sets the stage for
ethical action.
The spirit of Hus energized moral insight and
ethical action in the service of God and the truth.
Indeed, Reinhold Niebuhr, perhaps the most influential American theologian relative to political and
ethical action in this century, wrote his theories of sin under the grip of Soren Kierkegaard's more individualistic notions of the origin of sin.
Often it is associated with the call for secularity, or for a political theology, or for a theology of revolution, or even for a dissolution of theology in
ethical action.
The uniting of oneself in
ethical action to other life, when all life is seen under the aegis of the Cosmic or Universal Will - to - Live, is what Schweitzer calls «ethical mysticism.»
God is the source of life, the source of consciousness, the source of personality, moral purpose, and
ethical action.
Brooklyn state senator and chair of the children and families committee Velmanette Montgomery, who was a panelist at «Justice for Juveniles: a call to
Ethical Action» sponsored legislation to give counties «the fiscal support to divert youth from detention and incarceration settlings into community - based alternatives.»
The development of good character and
ethical action has been a fundamental interest at Project Zero for decades.
Ethical Action is the fourth book in the EthEx series, a guide for middle school classroom teachers which suggests skills and subskills required for virtuous life.
He is the author of To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher and Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and
Ethical Action in the Classroom.
GO: Speaking of
ethical actions, in Knights of the Old Republic your morality system was scalar with «light side» versus «dark side» points distributed along a single axis.
From the paradox of politics and religion, this talk contemplates structures of faith and the deficit of moral life and
ethical action in neoliberal society.
The important new book Moral Ground:
Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril explores the notion of the ethical duty to take meaningful action to curb climate change.
And the relationships between understanding and ethics (and
ethical actions) are no different with understanding obtained by way of science than they would be with the same understanding determined in other ways that might yield the same degree of understanding, to the same degree of likelihood.