Sentences with phrase «ethical action in»

We examine the obstacles to ethical action in many areas of our lives and develop tools to help people perform at their best.

Second, and relatedly, if we want to take ethical action in education, we shouldn't try to go it alone.

Without this, we can hardly use them as our basis for ethical action in the twentieth century.

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.

The spirit of Hus energized moral insight and ethical action in the service of God and the truth.

Sartre asks, «Can there be any ethical action in a world divided by class?»

Not exact matches

But a class - action lawsuit filed recently in Florida suggests that serious ethical lapses remain a defining part of the industry.

The incident also led to the resignation of vice president Joe Chernov and a pay cut for Halligan, «who knew about Volpe's actions but failed to bring the ethical violation to the board's attention in a timely fashion,» reports the Boston Globe.

As you will see in the example below, we are talking about ethical actions to gain traction in building a new business model.

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.

I won't even talk about why affirmative action is in place and how it can still be immoral and ethical.

Often, hard - headedness is required in order for ethical action to be effective.

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!

That means the final ethical norm is in the action of God in the person of Jesus in whom the Spirit has become incarnate.9

In the New Testament the meaning of ethical love is given by the divine action in the history of JesuIn the New Testament the meaning of ethical love is given by the divine action in the history of Jesuin the history of Jesus.

The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.

What is given for the ethical life in Jesus Christ is not a law in the form of specific prescriptions, but an action which releases power to accept responsibility for that action which will serve the neighbour.

Is the absolute demand that the physician should defend the life of every man as far as at all possible either the artificial and morally unreflected exaggeration of the biological zest for life which rational man opposes to the true «objectivity» of nature's action in life and death, or is such absoluteness a genuine ethical demand?

Hence our engagement both intellectually as well as in action ought to be political which clearly underlines action based on normative ethical principles.

The principle constituting this universal social practice is itself meta - ethical, in the following sense: the social action prescribed is explicitly neutral to all moral disagreement.4 On the face of it, one might object, a prescription of universal rights can not be explicitly neutral to all such disagreement because it is not explicitly neutral to disagreement about the principle itself.

As a derivation from the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity, the specific practice of moral discourse both implies and is implied by — and, in that sense, belongs to — a principle that constitutes social action universally.

To speak strictly, one should say that the principle is meta - ethical because the prescribed action is insofar or in that respect explicitly neutral to all moral disagreement.

Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the moral judgment of an action from the kind of person who performs it.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever beforIn a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever beforin our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever beforin struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

I see no ethical integrity in her actions at all.

This is one side of the picture; in its theological aspect it emphasizes the absolute authority of God over His creation, and in its ethical aspect suggests a deterministic theory of man's actions.

In circumstances which put it to the utmost test, it might find expression in actual martyrdom, but something of its quality must be present in all truly ethical actioIn circumstances which put it to the utmost test, it might find expression in actual martyrdom, but something of its quality must be present in all truly ethical actioin actual martyrdom, but something of its quality must be present in all truly ethical actioin all truly ethical action.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

Love is relevant in that it provides judgment for man's actions and the spring for ethical motives.

In spite of differences on the ethical problem all Christian liberals conceived of ethical social action as rooted in a religious conception of the meaning of that action and with a religious faith which gives hope for its succesIn spite of differences on the ethical problem all Christian liberals conceived of ethical social action as rooted in a religious conception of the meaning of that action and with a religious faith which gives hope for its succesin a religious conception of the meaning of that action and with a religious faith which gives hope for its success.

Making judgments and taking actions can be pretty tricky, and no doubt even unpleasant from that context, but like Shawn noted in his «invasion» analogy, they may be entirely necessary (maybe that's a tool to employ in unpacking ethical / cultural aspects of Biblical history).

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.

It is easier to intend results in ethical or in political action than to achieve those results.

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.»

Performances in the confessional mode in a ritual context are «primarily concerned with identity and self - disclosure»; in the political (or ethical) mode performance «is oriented more toward affecting the world through direct social and political action.»

Non-violent action can, of course, be undertaken without reference to love, but one characteristic of most of the non-violent ethical movements has been the conviction that this strategy is required by love and provides a way of giving love a direct expression in social conflict.

The development in the civil rights movement of doubts about the full effectiveness of non-violence may represent in part a yielding to emotions less disciplined by ethical considerations; but it also reflects the discovery of some complexities of effective social action.

Instead of approaching ethical questions in terms of specifiable rules or in terms of the consequences of one's actions, virtue ethics asks which virtues one ought to possess.

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.

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.»

For it would rather seem that because of Whitehead's recognition of the thoroughgoing importance of feelings as the initiation of all judgment and action that he is in a uniquely perceptive position to discuss ethics, if and once, the critic recognizes the centrality of feelings for ethical life.

Kant argued that in ethical action we obtain, if not knowledge of the noumenal world, then at least a relation to it.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

One of these instincts pushes humans to reflect on their own past actions and future situations in order to judge their realism and ethical value.

It is to face God instead of turning away from God; it is to change one's mind about life and to accept a new set of values for life; it is to effect, through the help of Christ, an ethical change in life, so that action and even thought become cleansed and purified.

As for early Hebrew legislation, it was largely absorbed in details of outward behavior, much of it entirely non moral, with much of what was moral so set in terms of customary action that the keeping of the law made only a small demand on ethical insight and personal quality.

We can never rightly reject the ethical principle of disinterestedness in reflection and action, for it is the very essence of rightness of conduct.

In the beginning works can not save a man; in the end a man is saved for works The initial movement is a casting oneself on God; the steady progress is an ethical advancement, and in a pagan society James was right, for the Gospel which wins men is the Gospel of practical action which demonstrates that men are redeemeIn the beginning works can not save a man; in the end a man is saved for works The initial movement is a casting oneself on God; the steady progress is an ethical advancement, and in a pagan society James was right, for the Gospel which wins men is the Gospel of practical action which demonstrates that men are redeemein the end a man is saved for works The initial movement is a casting oneself on God; the steady progress is an ethical advancement, and in a pagan society James was right, for the Gospel which wins men is the Gospel of practical action which demonstrates that men are redeemein a pagan society James was right, for the Gospel which wins men is the Gospel of practical action which demonstrates that men are redeemed.