Sentences with phrase «ethical theories about»

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Feminist philosophers who have written about knowing argue that theories about whether, how, and what we can know function in unavoidably ethical ways.

The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.

Sometimes baseless theories about the anthropological and ethical difference of the various developments of the prenatal life are employed: the so - called «progressive humanisation of the foetus».

At least among those untutored in the rarefied mountain air of meta «ethical theory, ethics usually denotes that range of human behavior that can be subsumed under the rubric of judgments about inherent good and evil.

I will now speak briefly about ethical and political theory.

Also, it is clear that, theories and world views apart, the modern situation continues to pose ethical problems of great gravity — but that is not quite the same as what the dialogue with «modern man» was to be about.

After learning about the various theories of ethics the student will work through select issues that could cause ethical dilemmas, referring to the guidance offered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners» documents «Code of Professional Conduct» and «Clinical Competencies», and the International Lactation Consultant Association «Standards of Practice».

And secondly, if doctors are corrupted by making money, as they are in my experience, and doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.»

Since I know a little something about ethical theory (dual major philosophy and theology on the island of Malta, followed by over 8 years of graduate work in literature with a focus on Paradise Lost, Badiou and Zizek) AND because my own views on appropriate author ethics are brazenly unpopular, I thought I would play devil's advocate.

Even though I'm riled up about what appear to be weird inconsistencies when it comes to judging the ethical behavior of scientists, it's good to consider all the possibilities before seizing on any one theory concerning Lindzen.

Different ethical theories would reach different conclusions about what the US emissions reductions should be.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

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.

We would agree that climate change raises some civilization challenging ethical questions about which different respectable ethical theories might reach different conclusions about what should be done.

Yet norms about responsibility for damages from human - induced climate change are well established not only by most ethical theories but also in a variety of international agreements, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN, 1992b), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN 1992a).

Although as we have seen what fairness requires is a matter about which different ethical theories might reach different conclusions, a claim by almost any nation in the top 80 percent of global per capita emissions that it is already below its fair share of safe global emissions is highly unlikely to pass scrutiny on the basis of any conceivable ethically theory.

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