Sentences with phrase «ethical judgments of»

Although the moral standards and ethical judgments of this country have long been permeated by Christian teaching, there is a widespread ignorance both of the actual history of the Christian Faith and of its revolutionary character.

It was the ethical judgments of Charlie's physicians that kept Charlie from getting treatment when there was a reasonable chance it could benefit him.

What made the Charlie Gard case different is that the UK medical team, hospital, and courts insisted that he be taken off his ventilator — despite the ethical judgment of his parents, and despite the willingness of medical teams in the US and Rome to provide an experimental treatment.

Not exact matches

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

What is really at stake is a fair judgment on modernity, an assessment, a fine discrimination of both its nobility and ethical allure, on the one hand, and its self - destructiveness, and self - flattening and demeaning tendencies, on the other.

The ethics committee at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my emphasis).

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

What is remarkable is how quickly the need of the church to make ethical judgments on many problems entered into the shaping of the tradition, as appears to have happened with the modification of Jesus» word about marriage and the injunctions concerning the handling of disputes (Matthew 19: 7ff.

A fortiori the church's moral and ethical judgments are always in via and share the messy, unfinished and perfectible character of the church itself

Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the moral judgment of an action from the kind of person who performs it.

Also, once we have recognized that our way of dealing with other types of creatures is subject to ethical judgment through and through, should our concern be more with species, with ecosystems, or with individual animals.

In the Ladies Home Journal poll above referred to almost three quarters of the respondents failed to connect religion with their adult ethical judgments.

There are judgments of style, of logical cogency, and of ethical purpose, for example, which can not possibly be summed up in a single grade.

On a philosophical level we can use the relationship of the tree and the boy as a way to remind ourselves of the very different judgments produced by utilitarian and deontological ethical systems.

For if my ethical response to the sorrows of another precedes my exercise of judgment, I respond in the same way to all ostensible sorrows, whether authentic or not, self - indulgent or not, self - caused or not.

The highest task for health education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals of reason, qualitative judgment, and ethical concern.

Making judgments and taking actions can be pretty tricky, and no doubt even unpleasant from that context, but like Shawn noted in his «invasion» analogy, they may be entirely necessary (maybe that's a tool to employ in unpacking ethical / cultural aspects of Biblical history).

As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos of culture, or on our judgments, or on the fleeting whims of self - definition.

The moral importance of Christianity follows from its truth claims; otherwise its ethical judgments have no power.

This public would expand in social inclusiveness as its ethical level rose, gradually elevating the minds of commercial men toward the standard of judgment summed up in Smith's idea of the «Impartial Spectator,» the quintessentially public citizen.

At least among those untutored in the rarefied mountain air of meta «ethical theory, ethics usually denotes that range of human behavior that can be subsumed under the rubric of judgments about inherent good and evil.

«Hence there is a place for ethical teaching, not as «interim ethics,» but as a moral ideal for men who have «accepted the Kingdom of God,» and live their lives in the presence of his judgment and His grace, now decisively revealed.»

In other quarters it is the specifically ethical aspect which commands almost exclusive attention — conduct, moral judgments, philanthropy, the Christian social order, and the like, The advocates of the respective views are often severe with one another.

Browning's emphasis on ethics reflects his judgment that contemporary churches are disposed to avoid the ethical import of the Christian message, offering care without accountability.

For it would rather seem that because of Whitehead's recognition of the thoroughgoing importance of feelings as the initiation of all judgment and action that he is in a uniquely perceptive position to discuss ethics, if and once, the critic recognizes the centrality of feelings for ethical life.

The perfect love - ethic, while it remains the ultimate criterion of ethical judgment, is impossible to fulfill in the natural state.

When, therefore, God passes his judgment, it is on the occasion of this social choice, but at the level of its deepest motive (the attitude to God) and not the more superficial and secondary ethical motive.

Value judgments and ethical preoccupations motivate societal planning, and it is under the guise of the search for order and «the good» that societies with their political and economic components are established.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.

Similarly all judgments which are made on the conduct of persons, either ourselves or others, require some ethical measure.

The possible advent of autonomous drones operated by «ethical governors», however, would entail such a separation of action from judgment.

Thus, the near advent of autonomous drones operated by «ethical governors» would not solve any ethical problem, it would dissolve a constitutive component of ethics itself: judgment.

The weight of ethical judgment arises not only out of the possibility of fallibility, but equally out of the responsibility for a correct judgment.

Powell insisted his drunk driving arrest was just one night of bad judgment, compared to Rangel's long - standing ethical lapses.

He said that Lord Ashcroft's tax status was a matter for him, that new rules regarding the conduct of Tory MEPs would be published within weeks and he promised decisive but fair judgment against anyone found guilty of ethical lapses.

It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.

Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well - being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments

Indeed, in a 2012 English High Court judgment, Mr Justice Mitting endorsed the findings of my own investigation which discovered that a claim, published in the Lancet in February 1998 by Wakefield, Walker - Smith and others that «Investigations were approved by the Ethical Practices Committee of the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, and parents gave informed consent» was false.

Like Mr. Baker's earlier features «Starlet» and «Tangerine,» this movie insists on meeting people on both sides of the screen where they are, on suspending judgment and extending compassion without abandoning its ethical grounding.

«I kept thinking of the Goya painting because it seemed detached from ethical judgment.

Our goals will be to deepen our own understandings of educational justice, to engage with others about complex ethical judgments across multiple lines of difference, and to learn how to enhance educators» and policymakers» capacities to make ethical decisions under challenging conditions.»

This work includes looking at existing school culture and «hidden curriculum,» the importance of establishing core ethical values used to guide judgment and decision - making, and understanding how character is formed.

If nothing else, their presence among Wal - Mart shareholders indicates how difficult it is to arrive at a uniform judgment of what's ethical and what's not.

Lauber, T.B., et al., The Role of Ethical Judgments Related to Wildlife Fertility Control.

«Items» makes no ethical judgments, but portrays instead the many paradoxes of authorship in contemporary fashion, pointing to the way in which the origins of a design are increasingly obscured by its global circulation and corporate ownership.

Also, the justifiability of the views driving your act is part of the ethical judgment we pass on it.

Third, it focuses on our attempt the ground specific, and pragmatically critical quantitative choices — e.g. the value of the «development threshold» — on ethical judgments.

Although we can not predict specific impacts of geoengineering with much confidence, we can fruitfully consider the conditions under which geoengineering research would be justified (or not), and ethical theory provides a wealth of resources to sift through the value judgments that arguments for (or against) research inevitably involve.

In the remainder of this post, I will outline the ethical considerations and value judgments that are relevant to determining the discount rate.

Determination of the other two quantities, by contrast, involves ethical value judgments that are necessarily subjective.