Sentences with phrase «ethical thinking about»

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.

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But I rolled out a pretty strong diatribe about ethical behavior in businesses and made it clear I wouldn't invest in somebody who thought this way about customers.

University program designers can review a cross-section of portfolios to glean invaluable information about whether their programs are helping students develop core overarching skills, such as writing, ethical savvy and critical thinking.

But check out this recent study, which suggests that seeing and thinking about organic foods can make people less ethical.

While individuals may be the ones who struggle with particular ethical dilemmas, it is not necessarily at that level that structured thought about ethics can be the most helpful.

So ethical leadership is a compelling issue — even among those who don't bother to think critically about the topic.

But before we think about taxing robots and AI, we need to get the basics of the self - learning technology right, and develop comprehensive ethical standards that hold up for the long term.

I think that applies quite nicely to our ethical judgment about Ray Rice and Des Hague.

«It is just one day, but it will help people think about the environmental, ethical, and health issues around meat, and maybe it will grow,» said volunteer Lori Chen.

An approach to investing that began over a century ago, this field started as a way to avoid exposure to companies that contradicted the moral or ethical values of investors — think about industries such as tobacco, gambling or weapons.

Now if the Bible could be so wrong about a clear ethical failure of slavery, what makes anyone think it has anything to say about sexual orientation or women's rights?

We might, however, need to think about their ethical implications before we embrace them fully.

He said: «We need to think very seriously about whether or not it's ethical for us to patronise those organisations that do things that in a very direct way violate our moral standards.

Many of them said, «I've never thought about contraception in theological terms,» or, «I've tried to avoid thinking about the ethical implications of this topic.»

News flash — Nobody gives a rat's dick what some illiterate schizophrenic child molesting jackass thinks about social and ethical questions.

It is not old - fashioned to think about parenting and concern for children as among the central ethical issues of life, says Bateson.

The most important thing about the religious and ethical teachings of Jesus is not that he taught them but that he thought them.

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.

Me to We is an ethical resource focused on helping people think less about themselves and more about the collective good.

But sooner than we might think, the term «quality of life» will be cropping up in popular medical / ethical articles about people who are not dying but who have either been born with severe physical birth defects or have sustained severely debilitating injuries, such as quadraplegia.

For instance, thinking about God's ways with humankind in general can open us to insights and understandings about an ethical issue.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

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.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

It is to face God instead of turning away from God; it is to change one's mind about life and to accept a new set of values for life; it is to effect, through the help of Christ, an ethical change in life, so that action and even thought become cleansed and purified.

The overpassing of the limitation of externality in early Hebrew morals involved not only the development of ethical ideals concerning special virtues such as magnanimity, but a profoundly important evolution of thought about the nature of sin in general and of what is necessary in securing salvation from it.

When not thinking about ethical fashion, she enjoys singing in her church choir and grabbing midweek drinks with friends.

Hi Ella, I do really like this post and agree with most of what you're saying, however I would like to know what you think about the ethical side of being vegan / vegetarian because personally I think you SHOULD restrict yourself from eating animal products, considering the pain and suffering an animal has had to go through unecessarily for you to eat them.

If you want to go beyond that and consider whether or not the criticism was valid in an ethical or moral sense, I think you should consider that this woman made a public demonstration designed to draw attention and then posted a photo of it on the internet along with her own opinions about formula being poison (clearly a criticism of anyone who feeds it to her baby).

But there are ethical questions worth thinking about any time we use technology to engage people in politics.

«One can argue about the correct overall balance between pride, sorrow, regret and shame one might think appropriate to the history which has shaped the society which we are - but one can only do so if one rejects the «presentism» idea that none of this can have any ethical force now because it happened in the past.»

«It really was thinking about ethical issues as they were coming up: «How can we provide frameworks for what the issues are — and what are the fair and ethical ways to address them?»»

I went through my undergraduate degree never really thinking deeply about any ethical questions.

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.

«I think [there's] a lot more of an understanding about what's feasible, what's safe, what's ethical,» says Anna David, who studies fetal therapy at University College London and is collaborating with Semler on the OI trial.

«I think it's very important that everybody knows that AI researchers are seriously thinking about these concerns and ethical issues,» says Francesca Rossi, a computer scientist at Harvard University, and one of the first to sign the letter.

Franco believes that the new European legislation — which would require systematic evaluation of all research involving laboratory animals in all E.U. countries, with ethical considerations a big part of the assessment — makes now a good time «to assess what [researchers] think about using animals, what effect training can have not only about their knowledge of the three R's but also how it affects their attitudes.»

«How [do] you create scientists who aren't only good at all these different technical skills, but are very good at asking and thinking seriously about ethical questions, about moral questions, and coming to terms with the ramifications of their work?»

Next Wave asked Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems and author of Wired's April cover story,» Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,» what he thought of Varmus's answer to our question about ethical responsibilities.

Several months after the class had ended, I found that I was still thinking about ethical conflicts in science.

So the next time you are facing an ethical challenge, stop to think about the person you were, the person you are, and the person you want to be.

I found some peculiarities in his ethical reasoning, but I think that about nonscientific writers too: and he provides the data which lets me use my own intelligence rather than insisting that he knows better.

In a study of morality, people who were asked to think about something unethical that they had done, such as shoplifting, were twice as likely to choose an antiseptic wipe versus a pencil as a gift than were people who had thought about performing an ethical act, such as helping a sick friend (ScienceNOW, 7 September 2006).

But Gino and Rogers wanted to see what people on both sides of the coin think about paltering from an ethical, and personal, standpoint.

When they asked people to role - play as deceivers and deceivees, the researchers discovered that participants felt better about paltering rather than lying by commission; they thought their actions were more ethical because they were technically telling the truth.

It's an ethical dilemma for doctors, and many are conflicted about their choices, but if you think it doesn't happen in medical offices, think again.

This is one of the myths about ethical shopping and fair trade fashion... people think it's so expensive.

Here's the thing about ethical shopping... when you stop to think about your purchases and the companies you are buying from, you will buy less.

Over to you: what do you think about my mission to buy ethical fashion?

but setting yourself a little target can really make you more motivated to becoming a savvy shopper — thinking more about being ethical and sustainable, rather than being splurgey and spendy.