Sentences with phrase «ethical theories of»

And so basing allocations on equal rights is the least contentious of all ethical theories of how to allocate public goods.

This lesson focuses on the ethical theories of Situation Ethics and Natural Law and how they can be applied to the moral issue of family planning as it appears in Christianity.

The just - war tradition, rooted in the ethical theories of Plato and Cicero and formulated within the Christian tradition by Augustine, Aquinas and the Protestant Reformers, defends military force as a last resort against grave injustice.

Kupczak offers a finely wrought examination of the anthropology and ethical theory of John Paul II.

It proposes an ethical theory of spectatorship to fill the gap in scholarship on his films, which very often looks at the socio - political messages implied by the content in the vein of American moralism or psychoanalytical reading of his characters and abrupt outbursts of violence.

Not exact matches

The Ted Rogers Leadership Centre brings together scholars, students, and business leaders from a range of backgrounds to work together to develop insight into ethical leadership theory and practice.

Her position emerged out of the dialogue with Lawrence Kohlberg, whose research and theory on the development of moral reasoning builds toward post-conventional stages grounded in the Kantian ethical tradition of rights, duties, and obligations.

The relationship between God and man, with which theology (Jewish or Christian) is primarily concerned, could now only be postulated if it contributed to the elaboration of ethical theory Moreover, the only divine - human relationship that this new anthropocentrism would tolerate was between a postulated deity and the human individual.

Barth gathers the questionings of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not upon the conscious will of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will of God.

It is in that Aristotelian spirit that my discussion of ethical and political theory proceeds.

Whitehead did work out a complex theory of value, but my point here is only to indicate that Whitehead's way of understanding human beings as part of nature both requires that we extend the ethical discussion and gives us clues as to how to do this.

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

Accordingly, the remainder of this essay will proceed as follows: I will first seek to show that the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity includes a principle of social action by which a universal community of rights is constituted, so that no moral theory can be valid if it is inconsistent with these rights.

For example, some (ethical or economic) theories based on the satisfaction of preferences assume that preferences can be nonmetrically ordered (e.g., Arrow 9 - 11).

Whitehead once humorously summed up the ethical objection to substance theories by remarking, «I sometimes think that all modern immorality is produced by Aristotle's theory of substance.»

Love, Thomas T., «Theravada Buddhism: Ethical Theory and Practice,» Journal of Bible and Religion 33, 4 (Oct., 1965), 307n.

Some ethical theories stress the need for order in relations among states, while others stress the requirements of justice.

Rather than conclude his ethical theory with insoluble problems of skeptical denial, I invoke a richer epistemology from Russell on which to base a constructive view of the virtues.

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.

This is one side of the picture; in its theological aspect it emphasizes the absolute authority of God over His creation, and in its ethical aspect suggests a deterministic theory of man's actions.

Lynne Belaief's discussion, «Whitehead and Private Interest Theories,» in the July 1966 Ethics purports to present the foundational elements of a Whiteheadian ethical theory.

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.

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».

Most of A Theory of Justice works out these procedural and (hence) political - ethical consequences of the veil of ignorance and the original position, and it is this material that has occupied most commentators.

Indeed, Reinhold Niebuhr, perhaps the most influential American theologian relative to political and ethical action in this century, wrote his theories of sin under the grip of Soren Kierkegaard's more individualistic notions of the origin of sin.

The dictum that «the Sermon on the Mount is not for statesmen,» has become a predominant influence upon Christian political theory in our time.3 One contemporary Christian philosopher rejects all naïve ethical idealism in politics with the assertion: «The Christian kingdom is not of this world, it belongs to the realm of the spirit.

Every statement of ethical theory is incomplete until that question has been faced.

Social and ethical theories that deal with such phenomena (and that go beyond the rather tired and crude tools of class and power analysis) are not easy to find in India.

Paul Holmer, in his article on «Kierkegaard and Ethical Theory,» (Ethics, an International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Vol.

Such an account of tragedy probably can not be systematized or translated into an ethical theory or method.

Here we reach the limit of contextualism as an ethical theory.

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.

It means that his ethical theory, and hence his religious philosophy in turn, has, by means of an encompassing or mystical insight, ontological significance as well as moral urgency and rational cogency.

To the extent this is so, process philosophy may have something to learn from it, for it is often remarked as a weakness of the process tradition in America that it has not developed a substantial ethical and political theory.

For one can not logically conclude that ethical theory is impossible if what was demanded of it, namely absolute values, was not in fact necessary as a minimal condition.

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.

In this section, therefore, I will present the outline of an ethical theory, formulated in terms that are harmonious with Whitehead's expressed views, reaching conclusions similar to his, but supplementing his work by treating questions neglected by him.

1 Whitehead produced no extended or systematic treatment of ethical theory, and his remarks on ethical topics are scattered throughout his later writings, especially RM, AI, and MT. Commentary on Whitehead's moral philosophy has been largely limited to attempts at description, clarification, and systematization: see, e.g., Paul A. Schilpp, «Whitehead's Moral Philosophy» in The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed.

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.

From a meta - ethical point of view this suggests the idea that ethics could be based on this command without falling back into narrow legalism, an idea worth further study, not least in the development of natural law theory.

The liberal sociopolitical theory of the Enlightenment, on the contrary, was «utilitarian in its ethical outlook, and atomistic in its social philosophy.

It is my hope that this ethical theory is fully compatible with Whitehead's value theory and general philosophy, but for much of what is said I assume full responsibility.

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.»

He recently brought together several member of the Oxford faculty who specialize in humanitarian ethics and just war theory with twelve humanitarian agencies to try to understand the moral problems these agencies face and give them ethical frameworks that can be applied in the field.

«I know people have conspiracy theories, but Seth (Agata) is an extremely ethical guy if you know him at all and I like to think of myself as an ethical guy as well,» David said.

Since this was tagged political - theory, I suspect you might intend this to be a moral or ethical description of the state.

Topics range from the history of network theory and its effect on the development of bioinformatics modeling to broader ethical and philosophical considerations, such as data donation and curation, and the role that genomic data should play in eliminating health disparities.

Prof. Gordon Pipa, a senior author of the study, says that since it now seems to be possible that machines can be programmed to make human like moral decisions it is crucial that society engages in an urgent and serious debate, «we need to ask whether autonomous systems should adopt moral judgements, if yes, should they imitate moral behavior by imitating human decisions, should they behave along ethical theories and if so, which ones and critically, if things go wrong who or what is at fault?»

Analyze moral problems in public health practice, research, and health policy and identify and communicate morally compelling lines of argument for alternative ethical principles or foundational ethical theories at stake.