Sentences with phrase «ethical responsibility is»

It may be that the transmission of ethical responsibility is not yet complete until it is made abundantly clear that:

We then can only discuss the ethical responsibilities for global warming of those in the current generation because a crucial piece of that ethical responsibility is having been made aware, in this case, by the geosciences and in particular climate science, of the consequences of maintaining the status quo in these complex large - scale systems.

«3 He distinguishes such explicit gatherings from other occasions such as church business meetings and Bible studies where the consideration of ethical responsibility is an occasional and secondary occurrence.

I think this is wrong and therefore I write from this point of view... To accept the idea that they are different and to say institutions do not really have an ethical responsibility is wrong.

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.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»

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For businesses, following the law doesn't exhaust ethical responsibilities, but it's an awfully good start.

One of the crucial ethical questions that inevitably arises for lawyers is this: what are a lawyer's social responsibilities?

All of the same kinds of questions apply to how the main news feed works, and so far there hasn't been much openness about that at all, nor any real admission that the company has any ethical or moral responsibility related to how it shapes the world - view of its billion - plus users.

A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.

The half dozen areas of study are Finance and the Global Economy, Ethical and Legal Responsibility, Managing the Global Enterprise, Understanding and Serving Customers.

To respond well to ethical challenges requires that the CEO be comfortable talking about ethics and about moral responsibilities.

Ethics and the law are two different things, and that goes for the legal and ethical responsibilities of business, too.

Building ethical, secure, scalable systems that work in the real world is a huge responsibility and I can't wait to share what we're working on.»

Cunningham believes that the disparate businesses are held together by their shared beliefs about the ethical purposes and responsibilities of business.

In doing so, we will not only enhance our business, but fulfill the responsibility of ethical and respectful behavior that is the foundation of this or any relationship.»

By sin you mean an ethical system determined by an intangible higher being vs one where you take full responsibility of your choices using logic and reason?

The New York Times: Musicians on Trial Over Crude Anti-Putin Song in Moscow Cathedral At the opening of their trial on charges of inciting religious hatred, three young women who performed a crude anti-Putin song on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior said on Monday that they were prepared to take responsibility for «an ethical mistake.»

In our time, in fact, especially in some countries, we are witnessing a disturbing divergence between reason, whose task is to discover the ethical values linked to the dignity of the human person, and freedom, whose responsibility is to accept and promote them.

Thus the primary center of ethical decision was within the individual, and like Ezekiel Jesus would have resisted any person's endeavor to evade responsibility for his own conduct.

Ethics — A search for viable individual, social and political principles of ethical conduct, judging them on their ability to enhance human well - being and individual responsibility.

Ethical issues arise when information technologies are designed without reference to social responsibility guidelines.

But for most purposes, ethical and legal, responsibility is not understood or experienced so narrowly.

What is given for the ethical life in Jesus Christ is not a law in the form of specific prescriptions, but an action which releases power to accept responsibility for that action which will serve the neighbour.

We, the president and the members of the commission, wish to affirm that our obligations under civil law must certainly be followed, but even beyond these civil requirements, we all have a moral and ethical responsibility to report suspected abuse to the civil authorities who are charged with protecting our society.

The ethical implication is that moral responsibility is not confined to consequences which obtain for only our contemporaries in the present generation.

Here are a few ethical considerations: the obligation not to exhaust nonrenewable resources, the imperative to provide accessible replacements, the necessity to improve our heritage modestly and carefully, the greater responsibility of the advantaged to improve that which exists and to share, and the obligation to refrain from excessive consumption and waste.

Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»

What we see in the Syrian tradition is a Christianity which in its understanding of human nature was eager to preserve the freedom of the human being and a certain degree of self - reliance, thereby laying strong emphasis on ethical power and the sense of responsibility.

In their brilliant ethical reflections, the Greeks always explained failure to do the good in such a way that from our point of view no real responsibility therefor can be attributed to the wrongdoer.

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.

It is wishful thinking to believe that the educational system can assume the responsibility of passing to the next generation the central and binding values, as well as the moral and ethical concepts, that set us free to be who we can be.

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

This sense of responsibility — of the high ethical demands devolving upon a ruler — is strikingly voiced in the valedictory of Samuel.

The second premise of liberation theology is that «accompanying» the poor and the captives in their pilgrimage is not only an ethical responsibility, but that it provides the most promising context for theological reflection.

Nietzsche's Yes - saying is a call to total freedom, but it is also a demand for total responsibility, and in demanding that responsibility it negates every form of responsibility or ethical direction that rests upon the authority or the power of the beyond.

Inherent in this responsibility is an ethical decision which only the individual can make.

The corporation must also be held accountable to larger constituencies — the communities that have given it tax advantages and public facilities, suppliers and customers, a general public that expects from it ecological responsibility, ethical practice and fair dealing in return for its exceptional powers.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

The solution to the population problem lies in the assumption of ethical responsibility for the voluntary limitation of family size, for the sake of the welfare of all persons now living and yet to be born.

A stumbling - block to many clergymen in dealing with alcoholism is the issue of the ethical problem: sin vs. sickness; the problem of responsibility.

In chapters 9 to 16 our attention will be focused on problems of ethical responsibility — that is, on decisions concerning human relationships to the nonhuman world, to self, and to other persons.

Instead of seeing the natural world as one among the social ethical concerns of human beings, it displays the human race as one species of God's creatures alongside others, a species with special prerogatives and responsibilities within creation.

Much more was this restriction of the area of ethical responsibility vivid and controlling in days when war was constant and internationalism had not yet dawned.

One of the most pressing intellectual responsibilities of the Negro student and minister today is that of working out some of the ethical and theological clues that the Negro revolution is teaching him and us all.)

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.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

We are now presented with a more ethical, albeit largely anthropocentric, view of human responsibility in the context of such an evolving and interdependent universe.