Sentences with phrase «ethical arguments in»

By the time a law hits the books, all the legal and ethical arguments in the world can't make a difference.

Not exact matches

But given the potent ethical arguments against corruption, not to mention the potent legal penalties for being caught engaging in it, it's a problem that needs to be tackled head - on.

Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she arguein a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argueIn order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she arguein ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.

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»?

When the argument from creation to Creator had begun to lose convincing power, even before the rise of modern evolutionary thinking, Immanuel Kant proposed that we think of God in relation to our ethical experience rather than cosmology.

It exhibits a stubborn refusal to acknowledge merit in any sociological, historical, philosophical, medical, psychological, ethical, or biological arguments which might challenge and chasten its pet orthodoxies.

But the meta - ethical character of moral discourse can not itself be the criterion in terms of which sound and unsound moral arguments can be distinguished in or through discourse.

C. S. Lewis» recognition of a fact - value dichotomy within an argument against ethical subjectivism in The Abolition of Man has no doubt contributed something to the frequency with which «values» is used by both Catholics and Protestants who want to defend «traditional values.»

• The public has been dragged through a labyrinth of denials, retractions, redefinitions and tortured arguments, all designed to justify and rationalize lowered moral standards in the treatment of prisoners, not to strengthen and defend high ethical standards.

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.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

In a remarkable article in 1953 Schweitzer restated his reflections on the ethical tradition of Western man, and it is necessary to hear his argumenIn a remarkable article in 1953 Schweitzer restated his reflections on the ethical tradition of Western man, and it is necessary to hear his argumenin 1953 Schweitzer restated his reflections on the ethical tradition of Western man, and it is necessary to hear his argument.

Only the ethical argument is discussed in detail.

Animals Australia's representative on the AWAC provided crucial input on the scientific and ethical arguments against confining sows in tiny stalls.

When it benefits you and your family, as well as the environment and workers in vulnerable communities, there's no argument against organic cotton and ethical children's clothes.

An interesting question would be to ask, what ethical arguments are offered in defense of the concept of inheritance?

Even if they find a way around the arguments for a legal obligation, there is a strong ethical case which they would be advised not to spurn - particularly as the cameraman hired, Danny Dewsbury, is a student in substantial debt.

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.

Bharara, she wrote, «while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct that Defendant Sheldon Silver has a non-frivolous argument that he fell over the edge to the Defendant's prejudice.»

«The U.S. Attorney, while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct that defendant Sheldon Silver has a non-frivolous argument that he fell over the edge to the defendant's prejudice,» Ms. Caproni wrote in her decision.

Although she refused a defense request to dismiss charges, the judge added, «The U.S. attorney, while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct that defendant Sheldon Silver has a nonfrivolous argument that he fell over the edge to the defendant's prejudice.»

Writing in Clinical Anatomy, Dr. Philippe Charlier explores the argument that curators have an ethical obligation to return these bodies to their native communities for burial.

In addition to the financial benefit, Bountra adds, «there is an ethical argument; we are exposing patients to molecules other organizations know are going to be ineffective».

With the support of Joseph Fins, chief of the department of medical ethics at Weill Cornell, who articulated the ethical arguments for why these patients must be studied and treated, they used PET to look at four more people in vegetative states.

The potential of this alternative technique did not alter their view of the ethical issues involved in the stem cell debate, but it did change their view of the ongoing public argument.

The participants in our focus groups agreed almost unanimously that although the debate was very important, it was also a shame that such an argument is necessary; all said they would welcome the possibility of a technical means to avoid the ethical problem.

Analyze moral problems in public health practice, research, and health policy and identify and communicate morally compelling lines of argument for alternative ethical principles or foundational ethical theories at stake.

It is important to understand where hESCs come from in order to understand the ethical arguments that surround them, as well as their enormous, innate biological potential.

There is also the ethical argument to be made against eating meat, as in Safran - Foer's book «Eating animals».

Lesson that deals with the ethical arguments for and against fertility treatments, in particular, debating the ethics of saviour siblings.

Students are asked to investigate and then respond to these arguments in terms of their moral and ethical value.

«We have our greatest success in helping others go vegan if we discuss the implications of what we do to animals; the ethical argument is by far our strongest one.

Further, whether it is «right» or «wrong» to «do the ethical thing» (and I would submit that in reality, that's a very weak argument in terms of its potential to effect change), my point was that if Obama really wants to «do the right thing», he needs the rest of the world to do the same.

A strong ethical argument can be made that scientists who conclude that there is strong evidence that citizens in their country are harming people around the world and putting millions of others at risk have a duty to speak up.

If you combine the information and warnings from scientists with completely compelling ethical arguments (and indeed, with basic common sense), and if you then examine ExxonMobil's actions and statements in that light, you can readily and strongly conclude that ExxonMobil's stance is, indeed, flatly unethical.

Any argument that appeals to origins or return to origins (lets call it logocentrism) say an argument that suggests we ought to get back to our ethical origins can be attacked in a systematic way.

Many commentators to ClimateEthics argue that since people are self - interested beings, it is more important to make arguments in support of climate change based upon self - interest rather than ethical arguments.

In particular, there has been no coverage of the specific ethical arguments for climate change legislation in the mainstream media except with a very few infrequent exceptionIn particular, there has been no coverage of the specific ethical arguments for climate change legislation in the mainstream media except with a very few infrequent exceptionin the mainstream media except with a very few infrequent exceptions.

Although the conclusions reached in this post are initially counter-intuitive, we here explain why ethical arguments are in some ways much stronger arguments than self - interest based arguments and the failure to look at climate change policies through an ethical lens has practical consequences.

To understand why these questions should be asked, it is first necessary to review the kinds of arguments that have usually been made in opposition to US climate change policies, programs, and legislation and why these arguments fail to deal with the profound ethical questions raised by the threat of human induced climate change.

In other words, a case can be made that the ethical arguments are actually much stronger than self - interest based arguments at least in some very important wayIn other words, a case can be made that the ethical arguments are actually much stronger than self - interest based arguments at least in some very important wayin some very important ways.

revolves around an ethical argument he made a decade ago on the economics of climate change in his famous «Stern Review.»

People (the public, the media, and so forth) naturally wonder, if only 1 percent of all ethicists, spiritual leaders, moral philosophers, other philosophers, «wise women and men», and so forth are speaking out in ethical / moral terms, then those ethical / moral arguments must truly be «not all that important», or «highly controversial and not broadly accepted», or «only held by theoretical folks», or whatever.

We have examined ethical problems with economic arguments against climate change in other ClimateEthics entries in considerable detail.

This question is designed to expose the fact that because delays in ghg emissions based on costs to the polluter makes the enormous threat of climate change much more difficult to solve and more likely that serious harms and damages will be experienced, therefore arguments for delays in reducing ghg emissions based upon cost raise moral and ethical issues because the delays are making the problem much worse, more difficult to solve, and great harms inevitable.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

Although both the scientific uncertainty and cost arguments made in opposition to US climate law and policies can be shown to be ethically problematic because they ignore US ethical obligations to others (see Brown, 2012b, pp57 — 137), these arguments neither have been examined in the US press nor identified by the US government.

We are interested in hearing from those who use these questions to expose the ethical problems with cost arguments made against climate change policies.