Sentences with phrase «ethical level of»

The theological principle that a man, by his own strength, can not even sustain the basic ethical level of natural principles is the rationale for the misery that we are living through today.

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«What we've done with Sarbanes - Oxley and other measures is to raise the level of awareness of ethical issues,» he says.

Another ethical issue related to executive compensation has to do with the process by which levels of executive compensation — and especially CEO compensation — is set.

As a continuation of its ethical sourcing commitment, Starbucks will launch a pilot program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia and Rwanda to develop next - level data technology to log and share real - time information along the journey of coffee beans with the aim of driving positive impact to smallholder farmers within its supply chain.

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

The researchers then conducted surveys to try to understand how the prevailing organizational mindset influenced workers» satisfaction, perceptions of the organizational culture, levels of collaboration, innovation, and ethical behavior, and how it affected supervisors» views of employees.

Our goal is to give you outstanding customer service, delivered in an accountable and reliable way, with the highest levels of ethical conduct.

Those who hear Jesus» teachings are struck, some quite deeply, by the level of ethical conduct expected of his followers.

Such a character obviously has to resist strong present - day pressures, which to a frightening degree are lowering the level of this nation's ethical standards.

It said: «Disinvestment applies in cases where companies are unresponsive to investor concerns, require a disproportionate level of engagement and / or pose too great an ethical risk to warrant continued engagement.»

The desired ethic, Küng argues, must be «related to reality,» «penetrate to the deeper ethical levels,» «be generally comprehensible» and be «capable of securing a consensus.

At the surface level of the texts they have bequeathed to us, we search in vain for psychological insights or any attempts to correlate theological or ethical assertions with human realities which we label psychological.

The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

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.

In general the basic way in which God acts on the human level is through ethical persuasion; it is by the worthiness, the attractiveness, the importance of specific ethical ends envisioned that God lures us on to actualize a world better than what we have known.

Thus on both the social and the individual levels the proposal of a simple transfer of the ethical attitudes of science appears to underestimate the complexity of ethical issues, to idealize the purity of the scientist's motives, and to provide no adequate dynamic for concern about the welfare of others.

On this level it becomes possible for the increasing complexity of order to be directed toward the achievement of civilization, and for the means of divine persuasion to become ethical aspiration (see EM 119).

Modern ethics has - sought to rise above the mundane level of everyday discourse in the pursuit of the universal and the objective, the great overarching principles whereby ethical decisions can be made.

That the two Niebuhrs could each interpret the Manchurian situation in 1932 as tragic and yet come to differing conclusions about the proper American response shows that using the concept of tragedy in ethical reflection hardly resolves disagreements, but may simply shift them to a deeper level.

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.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

The deeper point of the critics of process thought is that subsuming other creatures into the ethical system worked out in modernity to guide relations among people does not change us at the needed level.

To begin with the elemental ethical level, the words of Amos denouncing those who would «make the ephah small and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit» (8:5) are set in formal legal language in both D and H. 17 All three codes under discussion have general laws against the perversion of justice.18 The principle of sympathy and consideration for the weak is expressed with astonishing variety.

There is, as Kierkegaard pointed out, a teleological suspension of the ethical at the divine level, but maybe it is simply a suspension of what we take the ethical to be in specific situations — for the moral dimension itself is, as we have seen, presented by God.

Thus one may conclude that to Whitehead freedom is not so much a right as it is a duty and an obligation; these derive from the religious level and apply to the level of ethical life.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

And one should expect different levels of positive response to the relevance of an Ethical Christology inherent in the Christian anthropology.

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.

Since it is only faith in the power of Christ that saves, the level of ethical conduct is secondary at best.

On a more serious level of ethical reflection, John Lukacs» The End of the Twentieth Century (1993) anticipated a new dark age of clashing ethnic nationalisms.

So on a purely moral, ethical plane, all outstanding teams at a given school should receive the same level of student, administrative and community support.

when it comes to childbirth, that's simply a disgusting level of ethical irresponsibility.

Taking it a step further, he travels to Germany and Austria every three weeks to make certain that all the companies with which he does business are operating under appropriate and ethical business practices, ensuring that My Organic Formula maintains the highest level of safety, as well as an adequate supply of the products you love!

To address the causality question within ethical bounds, researchers designed prospective studies involving children who had equivalent levels of aggression or antisocial behaviour at the beginning of the study.

Selecting the right level of detail and granularity is a difficult ethical question for society.

At the national level then it might be seen as threatening the interests of research subjects whom researchers have an ethical requirement not to harm.

Is the message that gets the highest level of engagement always the «right» message, from an ethical standpoint?

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

Also, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University, LASU and member of Executive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Momoh was prominent for his doggedness in maintaining high level integrity and professionalism, and selfless defence of staff and students» welfares, as well as strictly adherence to ethical standard on addressing issues that affected staff and students.

However, it was inevitable that declaring the advent of an «ethical foreign policy» would invite constant efforts to find fault lines between rhetoric and reality, at the personal level as well as in his approach to issues.

While most of our animosity and distrust is focused on Albany when it comes to ethical issues, we sometimes fail to realize that we can also do our fair share on a municipal level to help regain the trust of the public.

While ethical considerations prevented a full replication of the experiments, researchers created a similar set - up with lower «shock» levels to test the level of obedience of participants.

«Whatever the real level of risk, the French authorities are not fulfilling their ethical responsibilities towards the populations that have been potentially exposed.

With that level of need, «would it be ethical not to pursue it?»

Nita Farahany, a co-author of the report, explained that while there are many ethical issues related to neuroscience, these three were chosen due to their high level of controversy and the fact that «these issues have already arrived.»

The aim is to stimulate ethical reflection on normative aspects of relevant developments in the clinic and the lab, in order to contribute to adequate guidance, both in the clinic and at the level of society.

«Waving or increasing acceptable risk levels raises serious ethical flags, if the true nature of the risks are not sufficiently understood.»

common standards and a sample - level catalogue for rare disease biobanks best ethical practices and recommendations for a regulatory framework for linking medical and personal data related to rare disease RD - Connect was launched on 1 November 2012 and this report focuses on the second year of operation.

The CCAC ensures that the use of animals, where necessary, for research, teaching and testing employs optimal care according to acceptable scientific standards and promote an increased level of knowledge, awareness and sensitivity to relevant ethical principles.