Sentences with phrase «ethical imperative»

The term natural law is used to mean a body of ethical imperatives supposedly inherent in human beings and discovered by human reason.

The agreement between black power and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the people.

The study section member must thus fulfill two conflicting ethical imperatives, preserving the confidentiality of grant applications and preventing her student from wasting his time.

This sort of concept is» likely to be based on some transcendent universal such as subjective religious experience or a categorical ethical imperative.

Or, as Sleek editor - in - chief Jeni Fulton rightly stated in a blistering critique of Documenta 14: «When the political or ethical imperatives override artistic claims... it results in an exhibition where the art on view is not treated as art, but as footnotes to an assemblage of post-colonial narratives.»

We have skills as lawyers that can serve the good of those who could not otherwise afford legal services, and there are solid ethical imperatives and reasons for which to use some of our time providing pro bono representation.

[29] While ethical issues constitute an important dimension of mission, mission can neither be limited nor subsumed within one's conception of ethical imperatives.

What you are talking about is whether or not there is an ethical imperative to treat the disease not whether or not it is a disease.

Clifford Christians mentions that two ethical imperatives of social justice are particularly relevant to home information utilities: «to each according to his essential needs and similar treatment for similar cases.

Because of this, at least, the physician is also a moral person, the subject of an ethical imperative addressed to him, no matter to what he attributes this absolute principle.

Where is the treatment of the ethical imperative on Mexico's bishops to enlighten the Mexican Catholic elites on the need for rule of law, property rights, limited government, and the moral role of private capital in promoting a just society south of the border?

The emphasis on action - oriented understanding of mission as «witness» is also in danger of limiting mission within the narrow confines of ethical imperatives.

It is a goal and a mission laid upon everyone as an ethical imperative.

The ethical imperative is to grow into those roles.

If the ethical imperative is that we should offer our lives to an other who is present to us only as a trace (as a sufferer, as we said above) and not in visibility, then, as I have shown, this other is an anonymous and therefore generalized other.

With God reduced to a shadow of the human other, and no longer seen as the source of compensating heavenly rewards, the ultimate religious and ethical imperative of pure sacrifice is therefore fulfilled within a secular and symbolically drained sphere, harboring no illusions.

This formulation of the ethical imperative is, of course, closely related to what Albert Schweitzer called «reverence for life.»

After we had drunk up the sea of transcendence, there would be endless room for a whole new set of ethical imperatives.

And if it is not tempered by the ethical imperative to concrete action, it can indeed lead to passivity.

The ethical imperatives are not expunged, but they tend to be applied largely, if not exclusively, to the members of one's own circle.

Yet the ethical imperatives always transcend the actual love felt, demanding a recognition of the appropriateness of love, and hence, of action appropriate to love, far beyond the existing capacities of personal and imaginative concern.

Only as there is love of one's own future self and love also for other persons, and finally, for humanity as a whole, can there be any meaning to the ethical imperatives.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

«Industry is much farther along in diversifying its workforce because it's not just seen as a moral or ethical imperative,» Dr. Willie Pearson, chair of Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society, said.

As she and her colleague wrote in their 2016 paper, they consider nonpublication a «violation of the ethical imperative to share results of trials that involve human subjects.»

Movellan: There is also an ethical imperative to do research so that we can invent the technology that would save lives in the future.

Because testing implantable BCIs in humans can sometimes have serious and / or unexpected impacts, developing a better understanding of risks and establishing best practices in this area of research is an ethical imperative.

She stressed that the regulator had an «ethical imperative» to «make sure that as qualifications change, students are not advantaged or disadvantaged as much as possible».

Moral and ethical imperatives, not simply economic utility, pervade the education profession.

And at the end of the day, as long as animals are dying — regardless of why they are dying — adoption and rescue are ethical imperatives.

Adoption and rescue are ethical imperatives.

For Oiticica, leisure — sheer fun — was an ethical imperative, a joyful protest against the oppressive realities of life in his home country, which had been under military dictatorship since 1964.

Accordingly, we are forced to accept a form of politics that is limited by the ethical imperatives seemingly issued by climate and environmental science

Roman Catholic Pope Francis has called climate action «an ethical imperative,» and in January he expressed his belief that man - made activities are largely to blame for rising emissions and global temperatures.