Although the majority based their conclusion on his right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, the partially concurring and dissenting opinions and the judgment as a whole provide an interesting insight into the way freedom of conscience challenges are to be approached in a secular society where religion holds less sway than individual
ethical positions on certain issues.
These different measures are sometimes used by different countries to assert various policy /
ethical positions on climate change (Banuri et al., 1996, p. 94).
What formal mechanisms are available in the nation for citizens, NGOs and other interested organizations to question / contest the nation's
ethical position on climate change?
Not exact matches
He takes no
position on capital punishment, abortion, or just war (the irresolvability of which he regards as indicative of our impoverished
ethical conversation).
Her
position emerged out of the dialogue with Lawrence Kohlberg, whose research and theory
on the development of moral reasoning builds toward post-conventional stages grounded in the Kantian
ethical tradition of rights, duties, and obligations.
That resoluteness is vital for all who love freedom of religion — which depends in America
on the Roman Catholic Church holding the line
on key
ethical positions.
It also depends
on the willingness of those within the evangelical church to reassess and reinterpret their cherished
ethical positions in dialogue with fellow evangelicals whose differing theological traditions push them in new directions.
Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care,
ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering
on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so
on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial
position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique
on the American political system.
Yoder takes seriously Niebuhr's own insistence
on the particularity of all theological and
ethical positions.
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.
Sermons
on ethical issues may sometimes need to express a
position.
In recent years, both through theological -
ethical reflection and through personal friendships with some remarkable gay persons, I have become increasingly convinced that the
positions of both Barth and Thielicke inadequately express the implications of the gospel
on this issue.
The Academy spent years analyzing all of the available research and
ethical issues to develop its official
position on the «study drug» matter.
Her
ethical conflict is so enormous, and her motives so glaringly questionable, that her
position on the topic ultimately doesn't even matter.
This
position is informed by Jewish and Muslim
ethical teaching
on equality and human dignity.
(And while I understand your
position on anonymous sources — it furthers your own poltical agend... sorry, I mean it's the
ethical thing to do — could you at least number them so we know if the shadow cabinet member who told you things is the same one as last time, or a different one.
Game developers don't often flash their party affiliation or state their
positions on ethical debates.
What if exterminating people based
on their skin colour was a valid
ethical position that people with enormous brains like me should debate and engage with?
While many titles push
ethical quandaries
on players, few put us in the
position of potentially executing an innocent and important ally.
In doing so, Common Practice New York aims to develop new knowledge and further a discourse
on ethical positions for the presentation of art and ideas in the twenty - first century.
I don't agree with every
position of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, but the organization compellingly summarized a prime lesson from Cincinnati
on its website the day after the boy and the gorilla had their momentous encounter:
The real and unacceptable extremism occurs when an
ethical position is based
on incorrect facts and drastic, potentially more damaging, action is demanded.
To illustrate my
position, Dr. Lawrence Torcello, a philosopher at the Rochester Institute of Technology, put it succinctly: ``... Some issues are of such
ethical magnitude that being
on the correct side of history becomes a cipher of moral character for generations to come.
The
ethical issue about front groups turn
on whether they have been created to hide the real parties in interest, it makes no difference if they are pro or anti environmental in their
positions.
Has your national government taken any
position on or other wise encouraged individuals, businesses, organizations, subnational governments, or other entities that they have some
ethical duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
IN ALL HONESTY DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE AAAC»S «
POSITION STATEMENT
ON WIND FARMS» THAT YOU HAVE RELEASED IS
ETHICAL?
This question is designed to expose a strong
ethical and moral problem with those who refuse to reduce their ghg emissions
on the basis of costs to them, a
position that ignores that those harming others have strong
ethical, moral, and legal responsibilities to not harm others.
Therefore, spotting
ethical issues raised by carbon cap and trade regimes may be practically valuable despite the inability
on some issues to determine unambiguously what ethics demands, if spotting the
ethical questions leads to eliminating from consideration some
positions on these issues that fail to pass minimum
ethical scrutiny.
And so a
position that a nation takes
on atmospheric ghg atmospheric targets is necessarily an
ethical issue because nations and people have an
ethical duty to not harm others and the numerical ghg atmospheric goal will determine how much harm polluting nations will impose
on the most vulnerable.
And so any national ghg emissions target is inherently a
position on important
ethical and justice issues and thus setting a national emissions reduction target based upon national interest alone fails to pass minimum
ethical scrutiny.
A
position on a global ghg atmospheric stabilization target is essentially an
ethical question because a global ghg atmospheric concentration goal will determine to what extent the most vulnerable people and the ecological systems
on which they depend will be put at risk.
Nations continue to set ghg emissions reductions targets at levels based upon their self - interest despite the fact that any national target must be understood to be implicitly a
position on two issues that can not be thought about clearly without considering
ethical obligations.
IPCC can, however, distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive questions that arise in relevant socio - economic literature about climate policy - making, identify important
ethical and justice issues that arise in this literature, where there is a consensus
on ethics and justice issues in the relevant literature describe the consensus
position, where there is no consensus
on ethical and justice issues describe the range of reasonable views
on these issues, and identify hard and soft law legal principles relevant to how governments should resolve
ethical and justice issues that must be faced by policy - makers.
Many
positions of governments
on climate change fail to pass minimum
ethical scrutiny yet ethics and justice issues are largely being ignored in discussions of climate change policies at least in the United States.
Although there is a growing literature
on the
ethical dimensions of climate change, most of this literature is focused
on theoretical
ethical questions rather than
on the injustice of
positions actually being taken about climate policies.
In addition, the
positions actually taken by nations
on these issues in the negotiations utterly fail any reasonable
ethical scrutiny.
Although the leadership in the United States and other nations that are failing to make commitments congruent with their
ethical obligations will no doubt claim that their
position in the international climate negotiations is limited by what is politically feasible in their countries, the world needs national leaders who are prepared to urge their nations to make commitments congruent with their
ethical obligations, not
on national self - interest alone.
More importantly, even
on matters about which there are legitimate differences about what ethics requires, there appears to be
ethical agreement that the
position of some nations are ethically bankrupt despite disagreement about what ethics requires.
Any national ghg emissions reduction commitment is implicitly a
position on two
ethical questions, namely, first, what safe atmospheric ghg concentration level the commitment aims to achieve and, second, what equity framework or principles of distributive justice the percent reduction is based
on.
Any national ghg emissions reduction commitment is implicitly a
position on two
ethical questions, namely, first, what safe atmospheric ghg concentration level the commitment is designed to achieve and, second, what equity framework or principles of distributive justice the INDC is based
on.
However, that does not mean that any
position on «equity» passes minimum
ethical scrutiny.
My
ethical position is that it is far better to fix errors that are found than play around thinking about cute names for follow -
on blog posts.
Gavin said, «My
ethical position is that it is far better to fix errors that are found than play around thinking about cute names for follow -
on blog posts.
On the contrary, the scientific evidence supports such ethical positions I may take, on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alon
On the contrary, the scientific evidence supports such
ethical positions I may take,
on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alon
on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas
on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alon
on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even
on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alon
on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alone.
Recently, the American Bar Association has shed some light
on its
position with regard to the
ethical implications of legal web strategy.
The appellants assert the courts are institutionally superior to Parliament to address the moral and social dilemmas inherent in the AS / E issue.l [31] CCD / CACL respond that the considered judgment of Parliament to maintain legislation which underpins a social paradigm based
on respect for the lives of all Canadians, however disabled, is entitled to great deference.l [32] These interveners further respond that courts are ill equipped to overule Parliament's
position on moral or
ethical issues, unless that
position inherently violates the Charter.
I also am concerned, as an
ethical matter, about unsolicited endorsements
on Linked In from college classmates and others who are not really in a
position to evaluate the skills mentioned in their endorsement.
The purpose of the LCA is to recognize deserving, experienced, and highly qualified lawyers, to provide an outlet for scholarly authorship of legal articles
on trial and litigation practice, to provide additional sources for professional development, to promote superior advocacy and
ethical standards in the practice of law, to assist in community involvement by its membership, and to advance a superior judiciary, by taking relevant
positions on issues or legislation affecting judicial compensation and / or benefits, as well as those affecting the American litigation processes.
Established in 2002, our company's strong market
position is founded upon determination and successful long term partnerships We pride ourselves
on not being «typical recruiters» and value our unique
ethical approach.
While I really enjoy building and leading teams, I would be happy with a
position where I am valued as someone who can consistently be counted
on to delivers results in an
ethical and professional way.