Sentences with phrase «ethical argument about»

But I noted that the core of the film is still about humans» relationship with other species, and that the fundamental ethical arguments about which we choose to kill, and how we kill them, are still a prime challenge — whether we're discussing bison or dolphin or the great whales being shot with exploding harpoons at sea.

Not exact matches

But in order to say anything useful about ethical issues in the marketplace, you first need to understand something about how markets work, how they fail, and what the ethical argument for their existence is.

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

Hasker believes that my doubt about this means that I do not hold the ethical premise in m argument against free will theism to be clearly true.

The reason I ask you to face the realities of your argument here is because I'm hoping that you'll take a close look at the logical and ethical inconsistencies of your own position, and learn something about yourself from that close look.

The unresolved questions about outcomes reveal the necessity for theological and ethical arguments.

Many authors and medical organizations have called for boxing to be banned (Table 1), citing medical, ethical, legal, and moral arguments.8, — , 13 Others state that participants should be allowed to make autonomous decisions about participation and that the role of the medical profession should be restricted to the provision of injury care, advice, and information only.14

In relation to this book, however, the most important impetus for argument about the concept of cosmopolitan citizenship stems from normative ethical and political concerns about the possible costs and benefits to political order, community, rights and participation of opting either for a cosmopolitan or a bounded citizenship ideal.

Arguments about the national curriculum, to some, has too much focus on these «general capabilities», which include skills like critical and creative thinking, ethical behaviours, personal and social skills and intercultural understanding.

My blog is a way of focusing on actual arguments about climate change policies as they unfold, teasing out these arguments the often hidden ethical questions, and inviting the world to see these questions not as «value neutral» scientific or economic questions but as ethical issues.

Sorry to lower the level of argument here but since Louise has already dragged it down I must correct her about her naiveté re the ethical standards of professionals and scientists.

He is up front about that and is is part of the ethical dimension of presenting arguments.

It is also practically important because the first four IPCC reports, although not completely ignoring all ethical and justice problems with economic arguments about climate change policies, failed to examine the vast majority of ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change policies while making economic analyses of climate change policies the primary focus of Working Group III's work thereby leaving the strong impression that economic analyses, including but not limited to cost - benefit analyses, is the preferred way to evaluate the sufficiency of proposed climate change policies.

And so Chapter 3 of the IPCC report contains a number or clear assertions about the ethical limitations of economic arguments.

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

The site could be improved if it included a reference to the IPCC discussion in Chapters 3 and 4 of Working Group III's recent report which, among other things, identifies ethical limitations of economic arguments about climate policies and only a limited number of considerations that should be considered in determining what equity means.

Apart from the costs there are ethical arguments; the way nuclear power is used at present about 1 % of the available energy in the uranium is used and the remaining 99 % goes out with the waste.

Her argument raises obvious ethical questions about what it means to encourage increased meat consumption at a time when we should be reducing meat intake to minimize our carbon footprints.

The most surprising thing about this conclusion is that it suggests that speakers engaging in this ministerial usage may be more ethical than I had previously thought: they give us warning when they are entering into a line of argument that is devoid of evidence.