Sentences with phrase «ethical system of»

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.

Thus in the ethical system of Mahayana the «Other» receives a distinctive significance.

The point is that the perfect ethics of nishkama for the self - realized and the relative ethics of artha, kama and dharma of the world of plurality, were both posited in traditional and modern ethical systems of Hinduism.

Her HICP residency will focus on discovering and re-learning environmental sustainability to empower self - awareness and self - initiation towards practical and ethical systems of thinking in art practice, and in communities within Scandinavian and Southeast Asian contemporary artists.

Not exact matches

While investing in ethical systems and materials may require more costs up front, it can have a massive payoff (in addition to being the ethical choice): According to the study, 73 percent of consumers say they're willing to pay more for a product that promises total transparency.

So Chick - fil - A partnered with Thrive Farmers, which operates with a more ethical payment system that splits revenues of bean sales with the farmers that harvest them.

In his latest book, The Third Plate, chef Dan Barber of New York's Blue Hill restaurant argues that diners must look at a new, more ethical way of eating that reflects the actual costs of our agricultural system.

This approach violates the first rule of good teaching: Integrate the information into your students» lives and worldviews, including those based in religion or ethical systems, and translate it into something they can connect with and use.

Religion has little to do with ethics... for example... is it right for you to allow someone else to accept your just punishment... of course not, we do not allow that in our legal system, because it is not ethical... but your religion is based on that one unethical behavior.

Since atheists have a wide variety of ethical views they will not follow a single set of laws but different rules pertaining to their different belief systems.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Still, both ethical systems reflected a coherent vision of the virtuous life.

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?

-LCB- alert: Smith would probably not have done well in the Twitter world -RCB- One can surmise that the form of capitalism that Americans subscribed to in Adam Smith capitalism was based on an ethical system influenced by Christianity.My very, very rudimentary understanding of Sharia laws concerning finance suggest to me that it is more closely related to Adam Smith capitalism than to predatory capitalism.What do you think?

Nor do we hold that an accurate reconstruction of Jesus» teaching can produce an ethical or theological system establishing the validity of Christianity.

They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

As Roof points out, their religion affirms: (a) the centrality of ethical principles in their meaning systems; (b) a parsimony of beliefs, few attributions of numinosity; (c) breadth of perspective; (d) piety defined as a personal search for meaning; and (e) license to doubt.

There must be guidelines that we can find to direct us to some ethical stance that, though short of the ideal, is still not just a reflection of yesterday's repressive system, for that simply will not win today's world.

Economists and systems analysts have devoted considerable attention to «decision - making under conditions of uncertainty,» and fairly sophisticated ethical machinery has been developed for dealing with these macroethical problems.

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.

Exorcizing the concept «God» from the system leaves me in a stance very similar to that of Paul van Buren, who holds that the essence of Christianity is an ethical message about how to live a life and that «God» talk is a dated, misleading, unhelpful, obscure way of saying what Christianity wants to say about what it is to be a man and to live a moral life.

Sören Kierkegaard reacted against Hegel's seemingly impenetrable system by raising the existential ethical concern, the problem of choice.

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.

But if by «capitalism» is meant a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.

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.

Christian ethics has a knowledge of why other ethical systems concentrate on the knowledge of good and evil, but rejects this goal as being a false one.

When other ethical systems set up the goal of a knowledge of good and evil, man immediately becomes the arbiter of that knowledge and assumes the role of God who alone has this knowledge.

On a philosophical level we can use the relationship of the tree and the boy as a way to remind ourselves of the very different judgments produced by utilitarian and deontological ethical systems.

A major part of the problem is that simply saying no to sex until after the wedding is an insufficient ethical system.

In the face of the present crisis it seems there are two possible paths to take in our approach to values: either to abandon discourse on values in favor of more traditional ethical language, or to assert the objective foundation of values and hence a system by which they can be compared, evaluated, and judged.

Most people live by the ethical rules of their community with minor modifications and infringements, but the vast majority adhere to the norms of their birth or acquired ethical system and community.

Effective parental / executive leadership and authority to nurture, protect, and socialize Organizational stability, with clarity, consistency and predictability Adaptability and flexibility — to better meet stresses and change Open communication characterized by clarity of rules and expectations, positive interactions, and a range of emotional expression and empathic responsiveness Effective problem - solving and conflict - resolution processes A shared belief system that enables trust, and promotes ethical values and concern for the larger human community Adequate resources for security and psychosocial support

But you have to ask usually, because most of these ethical systems don't proselytize too much.

Christians sometimes fail to distinguish the new, constructed, allegedly «holistic» ethical system from God's holistic and eternal design of salvation, not realising that the two logics lead in different directions.

The deeper point of the critics of process thought is that subsuming other creatures into the ethical system worked out in modernity to guide relations among people does not change us at the needed level.

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.

It is a highly articulated and systematic presentation of the main features of the Christian ethical system.

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.

The difference, from the Whiteheadian point of view, is that whereas these deep ecologists think we must choose between an ethical - valuational approach to other creatures and an appreciation of our unity with the whole system of nature, Whitehead shows us the truth of both.

if you want a better set of ethics, try Humanism, an atheistic ethical system far more compassionate than anything offered by the various christian cults.

The quotidian ethical problems of the media business require serious attention, but they are minuscule before the tidal wave of a-moral de-culturalization the global media system is creating.

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 reap.

He distinguishes between moral and ethical issues that arise within the context of the media and those that are raised by the nature of the system itself.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

The method is historical and phenomenological: You can study and teach what all these people used to think (history) or how they now behave (the phenomenological account of ritual, ethical systems, kinship relations, etc.).

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

When too little heed is given to what is revealed of God through the life and ministry of Jesus, there is danger of constructing an ethical system out of something else, whether the «road to happiness» or the demands of justice in the contemporary world.

Antonio Gramsci criticized Croce's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century for beginning in 1815 and his History of Italy for beginning in 1871, that is, just after but not including the French Revolution in the one book or the Risorgimento in the other.3 He thus excluded «the moment of struggle; the moment in which the conflicting forces are formed, are assembled and take up their positions; the moment in which one ethical - political system dissolves and another is formed by fire and steel; the moment in which one system of social relations disintegrates and falls and another arises and asserts itself.

Hierarchy in Japan as elsewhere is linked to an ethical system and a set of values.

Our curriculum also includes courses on comparative economic systems, the ethical implications of technology and understanding the business ethos.