In my experience, improving ability
in ethical thinking requires a lot of give - and - take between real people.
They can help young people raise their sensitivity to the ethical aspects of their online actions and to cultivate
ethical thinking skills.
In some sense, at least, the free, one - way gift, although it supposedly defines the good in
modern ethical thought, is impossible and can not occur.
The dangers of resistance to
ethical thinking come out at another of the eight points in the manifesto, point 4.
Used creative teaching strategies to engage children
in ethical thinking and conflict resolution.
In the chapter «Exploring Romance,» Trafford relates a story that highlights the need for more rigorous
ethical thought about what healthy use of «my time» means.
In a panel discussion I chaired recently at Pace University's Center
for Ethical Thinking, Dr. Mirele Goldsmith, a New York based environmental psychologist, recounted a case of communal activism as an example of a specific kind of environmental citizenship.
The Ethics Office's training programs
promote ethical thinking, discussion and decisionmaking, fostering the Bank's ethical culture.
They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo -
Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.
Socrates thus contrasted the reality of the experient and rational subject, the soul, with the world of appearance in a way quite new for
Greek ethical thought.
More sophisticated approaches to contextual - relational ethics and an ethics of response / responsibility, differently expressed by such thinkers as H. Richard Niebuhr and Paul Lehmann, had a major impact
on ethical thought in the «60s.
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.
If love as normal human concern dominates our lives, all too often it will be ourselves who are its object, and the long and tortuous process,
whereby ethical thought and feeling have led us beyond preoccupation with ourselves, may be undone.
«It is in the controversial field of sexuality that the process theologians have made their real contribution to
ethical thought today.»
Reinhold Niebuhr's
ethical thought with its profound analysis of love in relation to political justice, and its insight into pride and idolatry, shows how the evangelical view of love undergoes the existentialist transformation in the contemporary scene.
In it, she explores the extent to which moral and
ethical thinking informs everyday digital actions — and how those actions and ways of thinking are justified by young people and by the adults in their lives.
But one of the most interesting notions underpinning the work of The Family Dinner Project (FDP), which falls under the Project Zero umbrella at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is that mealtime can
nurture ethical thinking.
Not only was Oxford for many a more significant embodiment of the universal church than they had previously experienced but it also confronted them with both theological and
ethical thinking about the church which transcends nations.
We have seen that, in much
recent ethical thought, a self - sacrifice is supposed to acknowledge the other through a response to his or her pain, without reducing that other to our understanding of him or her.
Moreover, in my view, the most promising recent development
in ethical thought, for which he is in no small measure responsible, is the recovery of an ethics of character and virtue, shaped by participation in the Christian story, and lived out in the church - world relationship.
His monograph Karl Barth and the Problem of War had awakened me to the dangers of the Grenzfall «as a tool of
ethical thought.»
Gilbert Meilaender is the author of The Taste for the Other: The Social and
Ethical Thought of C.S. Lewis, recently reissued by Eerdmans.
His ethical thinking was based on the presence and importance of sympathy in human relations.
In sum, Nussbaum has been engaged for some years now in a fascinating and important project in
ethical thought.
Thirdly, in the trend of
ethical thinking we are investigating, it is characteristically assumed that what makes us aware of the self in the first place is just this double intrusion of death: the cry of the vulnerable other eliciting our preparedness to negate our own life.
Within
the ethical thinking regarding pure sacrifice that I am opposing, one's decision to be responsible for this person rather than that appears to be entirely arbitrary.
And in some recent
ethical thinking, this understanding of the highest good has been given a philosophically systematic and rigorous expression.
These two views of tragedy correspond to and illuminate two kinds of moral situation which are extremely perplexing to
ethical thought.
The concept of tragedy seems indispensable to refer to certain fundamental aspects of human moral experience, and yet it poses many perplexities for theological and
ethical thought.
A less obvious but equally important dimension to
his ethical thinking arises from the inter-relational character of reality.
We have seen that the relations of an individual's own future and those of others introduce tensions that are highly relevant to man's
ethical thinking.
Peter Singer has long argued that we need a revolution in
our ethical thinking every bit as radical as the Copernican revolution in cosmology.
Around the problems involved in this situation the stream of
ethical thinking in the early Old Testament swirls.
As Chairman of the Association of Third World Theologians he has ventured into the new fields of theological -
ethical thought and has shown tremendous creativity in promoting the theology of liberation in the context of the struggles of the peoples of the non-Western world.
A proper emphasis must be restored to
ethical thinking in evangelicalism so that the vicious sins of the spirit are seen as Jesus saw them.
Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization by Charles C. Camosy Cambridge, 284 pages, $ 29.99 Peter Singer has long argued that we need a revolution in
our ethical thinking every bit as radical as the Copernican revolution in cosmology.
Right about that time, Greene heard about
an ethical thought experiment called the trolley problem, developed in the 1960s by British philosopher Philippa Foot and expanded by American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson.
The concept has a long history in philosophical and
ethical thought, and has more recently become a topic for psychologists, sociologists, evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.