Sentences with phrase «ethical principles which»

It was a citizens» movement based on moral and ethical principles which eventually swept the world.

The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of survival for the human race.

We begin to see that if history has a meaning there must be a transcendant ethical principle which stands above the relativities and wreckage of history.

Not exact matches

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His title Either / Or is telling, for (as MacIntyre observes) the book's doctrine «is plainly to the effect that the principles which depict the ethical way of life are to be adopted for no reason.»

An atheocracy has no ultimate truths to guide it and no inviolable ethical principles by which to direct political activity.

Which returns us to the particular crisis of our time: the fact that current ideologies of religious, ethical, cultural and political pluralism do not provide the universalistic principles whereby we can state with clarity and confidence that some things are just plain wrong.

The social ethical principles here arise out of love itself; which means the responsible relationship of people who commit their lives to one another.

Accordingly, the remainder of this essay will proceed as follows: I will first seek to show that the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity includes a principle of social action by which a universal community of rights is constituted, so that no moral theory can be valid if it is inconsistent with these rights.

Hence our engagement both intellectually as well as in action ought to be political which clearly underlines action based on normative ethical principles.

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

Well did Kant, in one of his best utterances, declare his awe for the starry» skies, together with the ethical principles by which we, and any other comparably thoughtful animals, should live.

I understand the new work on ecclesiology and ethics which the World Council of Churches has launched to be a way to find new ethical principles to interpret the very nature and being of the Church.

The ethical framework for biological science must be based on the same principles of truth and meaning by which we as Christians judge all things, material and spiritual.

The theological perspective which informed Underwood's exploration was H. Richard Niebuhr's theology of radical monotheism; the key ethical principle in the study was Niebuhr's «the responsible self engaged in shaping social policy.»

But the particular feature of the being of the agent with which Hartshorne is concerned is his or her ability to relate moderate metaphysical principles to moderate ethical ones, an activity which reaches fruition in a sort of doing, as we will see.

There are no creeds just principles which give the framework for an ethical moral life.

And it is of special interest for Christians that these principles of right and wrong at which one arrives include the Golden Rule (which is stated by Jesus in the gospel of Matthew, as well as in most other major world religions) and the middle ethical requirements of the Ten Commandments (thou shalt not kill, lie, steal, cheat, etc.).

Judaism is a national life, a life which the national religion and human ethical principles (the ultimate object of every religion) embrace without engulfing.

Hence Jesus» requirement of love can not be more nearly defined in content, or be regarded as an ethical principle from which particular concrete requirements can be derived, as would be possible with the humanistic command of love, which depends on a well - defined ideal of humanity.

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

Conformity to that moral code and obedience to the ethical principle at which the analysis in this section arrives should coincide.

According to principle ethics, most important is the knowledge of ethical principles — act from duty, not from desire; maximize pleasure and minimize pain — which will guide individuals and communities in choosing the good.

But in the perspective that we have taken in this book, the ethical dimension is a matter of the human realization of possibility and accountability, with men and women in their social belonging and in the light of the one absolute ethical principle — which is nothing other than love - in - action.

An area of basic disagreement is the role of ethical principles, such as freedom and equality, which most realists, including Morgenthau, who is at times ambiguous on the point, deny.

Our organization is a Signatory to The Dublin Principles, which represent a foundational step toward defining the ethical issues surrounding collaboration among researchers, public health, the beverage alcohol industry, and others.

Article 7 of the Treaty of the European Union deals with how the EU can sanction member - states which violate the general ethical principles of the EU.

The rapidity of technological change has vastly outpaced the development of our laws, institutions and regulatory systems, along with the articulation of the ethical categories and principles with which to understand and evaluate them.

We need to determine some kind of principles of ethical justice that which sort out how the atmosphere is being used and who should bear responsibility for trying to alleviate the damage of something like that.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

Recognize moral problems in public health practice, research and health policy, including identifying which ethical principles or foundational ethical theories are at stake and potentially in tension.

Like the Helsinki Declaration, which forever altered the ethical landscape of human clinical research, the aim of the Basel Declaration is to bring the scientific community together to further advance the implementation of ethical principles such as the 3Rs whenever animals are being used and to call for more trust, transparency and communication on the sensitive topic of animals in research.

Collins said in a statement that he agreed with his advisors that the consent form signed by couples who donated the embryos from which the lines were derived «was inconsistent with the basic ethical principle of voluntary consent».

According to both the Sutras and the Dhammapada, following the disciplined practice of moral and ethical principles, and after one has sought to actively withdraw engrossment of senses from the world, it is in the act of meditation by which one witnesses the real dissolution of attachments.

Like the award, which stands for setting the highest standards, the Chopard Palme Verte collection is also setting standards by embracing principles of ethical jewelry.

To ensure a fair and reasonable outcome is achieved in each case, the decision will be made in accordance with the statements and principles set out in the Taxpayers» charter, compliance model, and the good decision - making model (which requires that the decision be legal, ethical, overt, sensible, timely and in accordance with the principles of natural justice).

Inherent in any code of ethics are basic high ethical principles, which are to be reflected in the actions, attitude and motivations of all members.

Beyond purely pictorial values, the basic rationalism of his method and the mood of ideal calm in his paintings have certain moral implications; they seem to embody an underlying ethical belief in the rational principle which governs the world of artistic form and natural life.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and many other legal theories including tort law.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to: (a) the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states, and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, (b) the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, (c) human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and (d) many other legal theories including tort law.

Although there are some climate change ethical issues about which reasonable ethical principles would reach different conclusions about what ethics requires, the following are conclusions about which there is a strong overlapping consensus among ethical theories.

However, since nations also have a responsibility to allocate emissions to sub-national entities in conformity with principles of distributive justice, an ethical case can be made that sub-national entities should do more if they receive preferential allocations which are not fair to others.

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

The committee has five ethical principles, including operating on principles of intelligibility and fairness, which they believe should be applied across all sectors.

Under compliance - based entity regulation, lawyers and paralegals are required to implement a system of practice management principles, which is also sometimes referred to as an «ethical infrastructure.»

Clearly the justice ethical principle would seem to indicate supporting this paired procedure, as it would release considerable sums of saved money which could be used for the benefit of other needy patients.

Generally speaking you don't suffer a legally cognizable injury for standing purposes because of the manner in which the revenues collected via your taxes are spent, even if some or all of that spending is contrary to your strongly held religious or ethical principles.

Without exception, I found the courses taught by practitioners to be far more interesting — the focus wasn't on the principles derived from cases, or the progression of historical development of the law — but on real cases and the day to day issues that they faced — what kinds of cases come up most often, what procedural issues delay cases, and how to work around them, real life ethical issues of clients who lie, or don't pay, or harass their lawyers — which judge thinks (or decides) which way — how to help a client that won't do what they need to do to get their kids back (and not get too involved at the same time).

The provisions allowing reporting of abuse when authorized by state law, as described above, are consistent with principles articulated by the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, which state that when reporting abuse is voluntary under state law, it is justified when necessary to prevent serious harm to a patient.

We believe that the our proposed requirements for the use or disclosure of protected health information for research are consistent with the ethical principles of «respect for persons,» «beneficence,» and «justice,» which were established by the Belmont Report in 1978, and are now accepted as the quintessential requirements for the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects, including research using individually identifiable health information.