Sentences with phrase «ethical ideal»

Decisions within the corporate world are shaped not merely by ethical ideals but also by economic, social, political and legal constraints.

I see more completely the importance of living in such a way as to celebrate the struggle for mutuality (the actual dynamic of justice - making) not only as an ethical ideal but as the very essence of who we are in the world — the basis of our survival.

Jesus showed that this spiritual reality is not merely an ethical ideal to be realized, or a future state to be attained; if God is really God, if he is present and supreme, his kingdom must be a present reality.

We have already noticed how lamentably the outlook of the Revelation of John falls below the ethical ideals of the Gospel.

We present Christianity en masse, a great system with all our beliefs, our institutions, our sacramental customs, our ethical ideals in one solidified whole.

with regard to the ethical ideal of altruism, he says:

They [the priests] were wholly unconscious of having sanctified the external, obliterated from religion both the ethical ideals of Amos and the tender emotions of Hosea, and reduced the universal Creator to the stature of an inflexible despot....

But the decline and modification of the Oath continued, and when the Supreme Court asserted the right to doctor - performed abortion in 1973, the members of the medical profession by and large refused to declare abortion a violation of the ethical ideal asserted in the Hippocratic Oath they had all taken.

Even after making this qualification, however, I think that it is a mistake to argue for cosmic purpose on the grounds that the cosmos conforms to our ethical ideal of care.

We prefer to leave the control rods safely in the reactor, but as much as we might like to domesticate the gospel, to make the faith about spiritual enlightenment or ethical ideals or the broad love of God that inspires tolerance, the fact of the matter is that the gospel is at root a rescue story.

There the emphasis is on concern for others as an ethical ideal that is fulfilling for the individual.

Robert Wuthnow talks about how we transmit our ethical ideals to future generations by telling stories.

That an ethical ideal can be completely wed with health.

Ethical ideals are always higher among the ruled than in the ruling class.

We can do so — not in spite of - but in pursuit of the highest professional standards, business practices and ethical ideals.»