Sentences with phrase «ethical questions as»

Judges are increasingly turning to social media and raising ethical questions as they do so.

Teaching Medical Ethics has never been more exciting than nowadays when unprecedented advances are made in the area of biomedical technology and when, more and more, people face very difficult ethical questions as a result.

Researchers grapple with ethical questions as deep brain stimulation implants like this one — approved for Parkinson's disease — are applied to other disorders.

«And there's some big things we should be wrestling with, gender balance is one, skills another, but other big ethical questions as well.

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It is all too tempting to think of ethical leadership as a question only for CEOs or for top - tier executives.

Few medical innovations have engendered as much excitement as CRISPR, but the gene - editing technology raises serious ethical questions: Will the power to edit our own DNA outpace our ability to decide as a society how far we want to go?

State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon says her concerns about Verletta White's ethical conduct and questions about Baltimore County schools contracting practices are so great that she must reject the county board's decision to hire her as the district's permanent superintendent.

As the Ethical Oil website denounces and promotes boycotts of companies that question the environmental record of Alberta's oilsands, the website does nothing to promote a boycott of unethical oil producers, like Shell, that make billions of dollars exploiting their definition of «conflict oil.»

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Not so much for the supernatural but for everyday guidance for a thousand ethical questions people are going have driven by science and money — as well as recognizing divine moments.

Third, many women theologians are using insights and practices from feminist theology in order to address broader social and ethical questions confronting the church, such as globalization, care of the earth, and the shifting patterns of work and family.

Ethical debates asking the Frankenstein's Monster questions will increase in value as genetic manipulation and bio-technology integration grow.

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!

And it is in this Leopoldian vein that he opens the door, perhaps unwittingly, to the second question mentioned above: What, if anything, is the ethical status of individual nonhuman organisms, as they exist in and for themselves?

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

These problems all come to focus in the question as to whether Jesus» view of the Kingdom was primarily eschatological or ethical and spiritual.

With respect to doctrinal questions (as distinct from ethical questions) I think there is far too much emphasis in most churches on what you are required to believe, which results in relationship - ending events over inconsequential stuff.

The question that is put to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our thought and the ethical consequences of our thought concerning Jesus the Christ to the ontological matrix in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one at the center of our confession as the bearer of «substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.

As my account of the controversy indicates, the primary issue in developing a Catholic sexual ethic today is not in deciding the ethical questions themselves but in confronting the ecclesiological question of dissent.

In addressing myself to this second task, I will try to develop appropriate responses to the following questions through textual exegesis of the Bible: What is the ethical status of the earth as an entity in creation?

Still, if one brackets the nonetheless important question as to where, if anywhere, Heidegger's substitute divinity resides in the registers of historical religion, there remains the perhaps more urgent query about the relation of his system to those ethical decisions that his - and our - time demands.

Regarding the Church and its self - understanding, the question is no longer simply when and by what authority the Church (as distinct from the individual Christian) should take a stance on ethical issues.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

Finally, in the fourth place there is the question of ontology, of just what kind of world it is in which gift without return and the death of the other linked to my own death gives rise to subjectivity and ensures that as subjective beings we are first and foremost ethical creatures — even before we are erotic creatures or curious creatures.

Without question existential emphases upon risk, subjective appropriation, and decision must be affirmed, and the call to authentic openness may be appreciated as a protest against impersonal ethical norms.

Such programs as these have brought to the American people ethical questions about American support of repressive regimes in the Philippines, South Korea, Chile, and South Africa, long before they became «news» to the commercial media.

The question is: What is the reason for man's existence on earth, as a living person, as an ethical personality, as an entity stretching out towards something beyond this present life and finally embracing the eschaton?

There are deeper questions about the possibility of the application of ethical values to political and economic decisions and about how Christians should interpret the prayer «Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven».

could have thrown light on this question if closer correlations had been drawn between the replies to theological and ethical questions; but as the report stands, a very general state of complacency and self - satisfaction is indicated regardless of religious background.

One can not do justice to Charles Hartshorne's ethical system without taking seriously his particular understanding of experience as creative synthesis and his demand that one constantly confront the question of God.

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

To the extent that one fails to take seriously Hartshorne's particular understanding of experience as creative synthesis or his demand that one constantly confront the question of God, one can not do justice to his ethical system.

This is an ethical problem — a question of conscience — as well as a problem of fact and technique.

This is the central problem for every Christian interpretation of love, and it underlies all the special ethical questions such as those dealing with the sexual life, with the struggle for justice, and the intellectual life which we are to consider in later chapters.

I do not wish to minimize that side, and in the next chapter I shall consider the ethical question and its significance as process thought throws light on it.

Hume's assertion that our «religious phase» may have been the «inevitable» precondition or «vessel» of secular morality (it isn't clear whether he means naturally or historically inevitable) can't get the ethical humanist secularist around the more haunting question of whether the secular political project of mass ethical secularism is viable, much less sustainable — especially if that social order is not to be grounded in philosophy, and especially if the politics in question must, as apparently it must, be one grounded in rights to freedoms.

At a 1981 Concern for Dying conference, Margaret Battin, who has written texts on ethical issues in suicide, envisioned a time in the distant future when Christians would come to treat suicide as a kind of sacrament involving a serious grappling with ultimate questions.

As a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reaAs a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reaas a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reaas one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reap.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

«It is a fair question,» Kelly dryly observed, «whether the seminaries, as a group of schools, are centers of intellectual and ethical power.

And that which distinguishes him is not merely the sureness with which, in questions as to the way of life or the chief commandment, he chooses from the Law the ethical commands as alone binding; (Mark 10:19, 12:29 - 31) for even on this point Jewish teachers stand beside him.

It called for a dialogue on abortion among Catholics — a dialogue that would acknowledge this situation of pluralism, not only in regard to practice (Catholics have about the same proportion of abortions as Protestants in the United States), but in regard to the ethical state of the question.

Not to mention the ethical questions such as; should one add salt back to fresh water (distilled by the forces of nature) or the more environmentally sound, take it directly from the sea.

As the ethical and regulatory oversight of Golden Rice - related research conducted at other institutes has recently been questioned, some might wonder about how other Golden Rice - related research is conducted.

To be clear, other than the size of the loan — which is way out of the normal range for a typical Apollo loan — nothing on its face suggests anything nefarious... but at the very least, there are some ethical questions with Kushner using the White House as a place to have meetings with people that then turn around and invest in Kushner's private business ventures.

Ethical debates about the conduct of war have long questioned the legitimacy of «force protection» as an operating principle for those engaged in armed conflict.

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.

With Mr. Pataki doing little to establish his own identity for voters, his opponents hope to depict him as the puppet of a man whose career has been marred by ethical questions.

But Rodriguez is hampered by ethical questions such as the job his wife held under his friend Commissioner Feniosky Pena - Mora, as well as questions of temperament.