Sentences with phrase «ethical basis for»

In general, Stern argues that there is no ethical basis for discounting the welfare of future generations simply because they will be born later in time (e.g. no pure rate of time preference).

The ethical basis for why national INDCs should specify; (a) the number of tons of ghg emissions that will be reduced by implementation of the INDC by a specific date, (b) the warming limit and associated carbon budget that the nation's INDC is seeking to achieve in cooperation with other nations, (c) the equity principles assumed by the nation in determining the fairness of its INDC, and (d) for Annex 1 nations, emissions reductions that will be achieved by the INDC from 1990, a common baseline year.

Yet even if there is some short - term benefit from substituting natural gas for coal combustion, there is no ethical basis for doing this without simultaneously aggressively ramping up non-fossil fuel electricity combustion.

The ethical basis for these claims have been more rigorously worked out in prior articles and are not repeated here to reduce complexity.

- The unrecognized dependence of liberty / prosperity on a particular ethical basis for morality;

Likewise, less orthodox religionists and Seculars will need to develop a firm moral and ethical basis for their politics.

We may as Christians think that the notion of peace has sufficiently penetrated the life and history of the Church to secure a satisfactory ethical basis for Christian conflict resolution, a peace ministry or to carry out the World Council of Churches» «Program to Overcome Violence» and that the Church, therefore, is not pressed for other alternatives.

As a result, the ethical bases for arguments in support or in opposition to policy action on climate change are frequently ignored in policy debates.

Not exact matches

He said he has an «ethical obligation» to focus for the next five years on his newly announced De Soto joint venture for a blockchain - based global property registry.

For example: selling junk food is perfectly legal, and arguably fully ethical, at least on a case - by - case basis.

Terms like «socially responsible investing», or «ethical investing» are falling out of favour because they have moral overtones, leftover from the days when investors chose stocks based on religious or ethical criteria, for example.

Rather you need to understand that when we say your god if immoral we are working with ethical premises that do not involve your god as a basis for defining morali and then on our ethical systems (which are not all the same) we are deeming your god immoral.

Religion has little to do with ethics... for example... is it right for you to allow someone else to accept your just punishment... of course not, we do not allow that in our legal system, because it is not ethical... but your religion is based on that one unethical behavior.

4 I use the term «matter of preference» to mean a situation of human choice in which there is finally no rational basis for an ethical distinction between the alternatives.

This is especially obvious if you view religion as essentially a source of ethical rules for human behaviour rather than theological truths about God and make the techie assumption that content equals rules; then, if all your churches come up with the same rules, they must all be based on the same content, and thus they must ultimately all be the same.

Whether «love» alone is a sufficient basis for ethical behavior, particularly when the larger society has a stake in what happens to a marriage, is a matter which Sinks does not address.

Beliefs may be moral or ethical; however, a man's reasons for not wanting to participate in a war must not be based on politics, expediency, or self - interest.

For people whose ethical views are based in a religious tradition, that choice seems monstrous.

For example, some (ethical or economic) theories based on the satisfaction of preferences assume that preferences can be nonmetrically ordered (e.g., Arrow 9 - 11).

Some of the places you shop may have high ethical standards as it is: Places like Filson, who holds stewardship for their environment as a base tenet, or IKEA, who treats employees and the environment with respect.

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

The ethical framework for biological science must be based on the same principles of truth and meaning by which we as Christians judge all things, material and spiritual.

This is to say, the ethical supremacy of the Buddha — his matchless love and compassion — is not the final or the exclusive basis for his worship.

That is, they are under both ethical and epistemic obligations to argue for the truth of what they take themselves to believe when they are faced with religious others who appear to believe something different and to act differently based upon such difference in belief.

That book proves NOTHING other than the fact that people desired to have some sort of explanation for how the world and universe work and wanted to have some sort of ethical framework upon which to base their lives.

My concern here is to develop a religio - ethical perspective centered on life and the quest for enjoyment in a science - based technological age.

The function of a claim about the totality was not, as it was for Wilson, to provide «objective knowledge» and to serve as a basis for what Wilson called an «enduring ethical consensus» (BBM 54).

Confucianism has a perfect ethical system based on the five human relations; it teaches that man should faithfully search for reason for human actions and should refine and control himself; should carry on his ancestral traditions and teach them to succeeding generations; should die to preserve his virtue; and should be just without partiality.

«48 Process thought offers a basis for a personalistic ethics that would be an alternative to Altizer's call for an ethical life of self - annihilation.

Instead, if taken seriously as the basis for human life and thought, materialism would strangle any ethical aspiration.

Only propositions based on evidence would be tolerated, but the satisfaction of knowing the truth about nature by way of science would compensate for any ethical constraints we would still have to put on our animal instincts.

And although we need not agree fully with Heidegger that the origin or source of willing and acting is care, or that the source of conscience is care, we can agree for Whitehead that care and ethical life are correlated in a way they need not be in an authoritarian ethics based on obedience and fear.

you do realize I was reversing them right, swapping a secular company for a religious based one, not as you say claiming HGTV «has an explicitly religious / metaphysical / ethical agenda».

The confected televisual narratives and the faux intimacy of our celebrity age really provide no safe basis for ethical decisions.

All this also requires encounter and dialogue with other religions in the region that aim at discovering through their respective heritages, a common ethical ground for the basis of a new society» (Human Rights: a Global Ecumenical Agenda, WCC 1993 p. 44).

I have a special reason for gratefulness to him since he was perhaps the first person who thought of taking a doctorate based on my writings on social ethics from which I learned what my ethical methodology was.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

Other «social good» companies such as Uganda - based sandal manufacturer Sseko Designs ensure fair wages for employees and ethical sourcing.

Wherever the ethical principles «tip the balance» in favor of intervention, he argues, we must establish clear guidelines (again based upon ethical principles) for justifying the use of force.

This idea serves as a basis for an ethical and social conception of power.

Thus it is possible to create a society based on the interests of individuals but not on common values or ethical norms, for there are none.

On the contrary, he developed an elaborate justification for rational belief in God on the basis of ethical experience and worked out the religious implications of his understanding of God and man.

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

Its ethical precepts have been the basis of moral education of most of the Chinese people for a period longer than the entire Christian era.

The appeal and potential for vegan products is expanding beyond a reasonably small but growing group of people who avoid animal products for ethical reasons to include the much larger base of consumers seeking healthier, cleaner foods.

Cameron Mynott of Australian Pasture Fresh says, «it is imperative for the future of sustainable, ethical, regenerative farming, that small - scale farmers be able to run under a common - sense, outcomes - based legislation.

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