Sentences with phrase «ethical life concerns»

He would have heartily approved of the integration of the empirical and theoretical, while questioning the premise that our political and ethical life concerns our reason but not our emotions and appetites.

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The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Most public debate concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.

It can not be attained apart from a disciplined, moral life, and when it is attained the compassion that follows leads to behavior that transcends the need for ethical concern.

To the person concerned with the ethical dimension of living it is not satisfying simply to say that alcoholism is a sickness, implying that the ethical issue has thereby been eliminated.

Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.

Capitalistic globalization, not being motivated by ethical norms and concerns, does not pay adequate attention to the care of nature and the preservation of the natural environment for the good of all life on earth.

It is not old - fashioned to think about parenting and concern for children as among the central ethical issues of life, says Bateson.

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.

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

But in the complex society in which we live, such intervention often is the only way for citizens to make their moral and ethical concerns matter.

Why be concerned about the ethical life?

Though the concern Niebuhr raised about worship is never fully resolved in any time (nor is the conflict between priestly and prophetic roles), he reminds us of the necessity of living in this world, in the tension between it and the «other world,» inescapably related to the ethical and social problems of the time.

In spite of the environmental concern of many scientific authors who follow either a hard or soft naturalism, their theoretical (if not practical) acquiescence in the essentially hopeless view of a universe can not inspire the trust in life needed for lasting ethical aspiration.

And last, the spiritual unity with Being which the mystic desires is for Schweitzer attained through giving expression to the natural proclivity within us of the will - to - relatedness, or love, and by becoming united in ethical concern with all forms of life in the world about us.

The remarkable ethical point about Wang Yang - ming was that in his vigorous and active life he continually kept his immediate practical concerns in contact with his metaphysical tradition concerning value.

A materialistic view of life is unlikely to sustain a deeply ethical concern for all life.

The ethical vision is governed by the concern that justice be done, if possible here and now.10 And, of course, such concern is absolutely essential in the maintenance of civilization and the quality of life.

If love as normal human concern dominates our lives, all too often it will be ourselves who are its object, and the long and tortuous process, whereby ethical thought and feeling have led us beyond preoccupation with ourselves, may be undone.

But he is concerned lest Christians confuse ethical living with an arbitrary legalistic bondage.

She said there were no ethical concerns with this from a Christian point of view: «It's really important to distinguish between an egg and a sperm and an embryo and we believe strongly that an embryo is the beginning of human life.

However, working and researching on egg and sperm, as they aren't individual human lives, we have very little ethical concerns about that.»

He is seen as one who is concerned about the preservation and implementation of the ethical and human values in community life.

The core issues that properly concern theologians and pastors, as Cobb knows, have to do with the kind of theological - ethical glasses one wears as one attempts to discern the moral and spiritual meanings of the data, to see in what respects they comport with our deepest understanding of how God wants us to live in the world.

As consumer awareness and concern about the lives led by animals raised for food continues to rise, ethical concerns are playing an increasingly important role in purchasing decisions.

Divesting from Massey would send a loud and clear message that the NY State Common Retirement Fund is concerned with both workers» safety and an improved quality of life for all, making it a model of integrity, sound management and ethical investing throughout the country.

Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy.

Clinicians and researchers have raised ethical questions about the transplant, as well as concerns about whether Dinoire was stable enough to give informed consent for the procedure — which dips into uncharted issues involving the relationship between the face and personal identity — and for the regimen of immunosuppressive drugs she must now take for the rest of her life.

For this Nobel Prize recipient, ethical concerns over destroying human life were not an obstacle to the pursuit of science, but motivation to excel at it.

Proponents of destructive human embryonic stem cell research have all too often been quick to dismiss ethical concerns over the commodification and destruction of human life, concerns, they say, that represent an obstacle to the pursuit of science.

Some experts have raised ethical concerns about a pregnancy so late in life (the baby's father is reported to be age 79).

Much like the novel, the film takes a matter - of - fact yet thought - provoking perspective on the central underlying fact that governs the character's lives — never didactic nor preachy, but encouraging you to construct the rest of society (which exists as a sort of negative space against which our characters appear in sharp relief) and the ethical concerns that the film brings up but doesn't answer.

He said that he was astonished at the growing interest in ethical living; in the last 2 or 3 years these have become mainstream concerns.

And beyond doubts about legal compliance are fundamental concerns about the ethical and moral acceptability of allowing machines to independently take life - and - death decisions.

In its first public statement on the matter, the Holy See expressed «grave ethical concerns» and said most critical is «the lack of ability for pre-programmed, automated technical systems to make moral judgments over life and death, to respect human rights, and to comply with the principle of humanity.»