Sentences with phrase «ethical questions in»

As artist Ionat Zurr, who co-founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project with Oron Catts in 1996, said in a recent talk in Edinburgh: «The role of the artist is to be somewhat critical, to ask: «How do those things happening in the lab affect philosophical, ontological, and ethical questions in society?»»

The latest exhibition by New York artist Richard Prince is raising ethical questions in the art world.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

Instead of approaching ethical questions in terms of specifiable rules or in terms of the consequences of one's actions, virtue ethics asks which virtues one ought to possess.

Not exact matches

And herein lies the ethical question, posed to me by a director today: «When does hanging on or digging in breach a fiduciary duty by the director to act in the company's best interest, rather than the director's?»

In this social experiment, those questions cover everything from patient privacy to the ethical dilemma of warning someone about a risk they can't avoid.

Ethical questions abound in the Pope's and Trump's calls to help a dying child.

The research raises broader ethical questions about the role of computers in health care and how truly personal information could be used.

Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that did digital work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, is reportedly shutting down after recent ethical and legal questions about its business practices.

Work - related ethical questions related aside, a ride - hailing service made up of self - driving cars will deduct driver salary costs, lending Uber more cash in its coffers.

he taught in an underground seminary, worked with associates in the intelligence services for the overthrow of Hitler, helped Jews get out of the country, and kept up a steady correspondence with friends on questions spiritual, theological, and ethical.

Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust - up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any ethical significance for the way we live together in civil society?

In assessing the ethical values held by their respondents, the Oliners addressed the question of the role of patriotism.

But I think anyone who acts like there are no ethical questions to ponder regarding whether or not to kill and consume an animal is in serious denial.

Hence there arises the question whether the religious ethic of love is possible without the belief in an ethical God and World Sovereign, or knowledge of this God, which can be replaced by a belief in Him.

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.

Yesterday, the Chair of the board of trustees, Randy Fairfax praised the school's leaders for their «ethical, moral, and spiritual leadership» in an email to the school's community, but added, «However, we are unanimous in our decision that it is time for a new season of leadership... Understandably, there are many questions at this time.

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

«In RE pupils have the opportunity to engage not only with the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality, but also with the most pressing ethical problems of our day.

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!

Faith was a persistent theme in the presidential race, and moral and ethical questions surrounded budget debates, mass killings and an unexpected focus on «religious freedom.»

One question concerning alcoholism in which most religious leaders are keenly interested is this: «What is the ethical problem in alcoholism?

Writing recently in The New York Times, the economist Lester Thurow noted: «Ethical questions arise because we live in communities that function according to rules and laws that promote the long - run interests of the community.

Just because it is meta - ethical, this principle itself presupposes another or supreme moral principle, and I will subsequently argue that the universal set of tights in question is an indirect application of the teleology backed by neoclassical metaphysics.

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?

It is interesting to note a global, ecumenical pattern emerging in official church statements on ethical questions.

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 thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

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 creatioIn 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 creatioin creation?

In his earlier address to the bishops, Benedict urged «a clear and united witness» on public questions of great moral moment, recognizing that «it can not be assumed that all Catholic citizens think in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.&raquIn his earlier address to the bishops, Benedict urged «a clear and united witness» on public questions of great moral moment, recognizing that «it can not be assumed that all Catholic citizens think in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.&raquin harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.»

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.

But it is precisely here that the ethical question enters in most forcefully.

There is then the question of goodness understood in an ethical sense.

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.

He writes, «The radicalizing of these questions becomes especially clear if we take seriously that the scope of ethical responsibility is no longer confined to life in personal relations or in social structures.

In the 1970s and 1980s I spent considerable time in dialogue with Mennonite scholars about the differences between the Reformed and Anabaptist traditions on political and ethical questionIn the 1970s and 1980s I spent considerable time in dialogue with Mennonite scholars about the differences between the Reformed and Anabaptist traditions on political and ethical questionin dialogue with Mennonite scholars about the differences between the Reformed and Anabaptist traditions on political and ethical questions.

Changes in relation to production, political organization, ideological struggles continue to raise a number of questions for which the traditional theological and ethical repertoire of the confessional churches may have little or nothing ready - made to say.

From the manufacture of «sexbots» to the use of robotics in warfare, there are all kinds of ethical questions that need to be addressed.

It raises ethical questions about norms in respect to the transcendent realm.

Since land is the scarcest resource in the world and the most essential element in any effort to restore subsistence farming, the combination of political and environmental issues attending certain types of development raises serious ethical questions.

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.

«15 Besides this fundamental question of whether we are to look to nature for what we should do or for what we should not do, there are no criteria in this approach for any ethical discrimination between cases of mutual aid and of cruelty, both of which occur in nature.

While religious perspectives have nothing to do with the technical content of a lecture, they are relevant to a number of aspects of the academic situation.1 Where appropriate to the objectives of the course and closely connected with the subject matter, some of the questions which we have raised about the effects of an invention on society or the ethical dilemmas faced by the scientist can legitimately be mentioned in the classroom.

If you believe in a pretribulational rapture, make sure that you are giving attention to other theological and ethical questions more central to the Gospel.

The ethical emphasis in liturgical evangelism calls these secular values into question.

In response to the corresponding ethical question, Duns Scotus declared that what God wills is good because God wills it, rather than that he wills it because it is good.