If you mean to ride an elephant or buy a painting take their mistreatment into account and perhaps seek a more
ethical way of interacting with them.
«There is
an ethical way of doing this,» Santorum remarked.»
As a result, most of them are turning to readily available Chinese junk food: (Until there is a more
ethical way of growing quinoa, I encourage you and everyone you know to NOT eat it.
Underneath man's quest for
an ethical way of life Schweitzer sees a struggle which has not been sufficiently recognized, that between world - affirmation and world negation.
Camus's affirmation that humanity can get along without God in
an ethical way of life defines the critical issue which a Christian doctrine of love must meet.
In
the ethical way of regarding life it is therefore the task of the individual to divest himself of the inward determinants and express them in an outward way.
Here the Esthetic way of life and
the ethical way of life are personified in well - drawn characters and presented in meticulous detail down to their most subtle refinements.
His title Either / Or is telling, for (as MacIntyre observes) the book's doctrine «is plainly to the effect that the principles which depict
the ethical way of life are to be adopted for no reason.»
For its supporters, it offers
an ethical way of conducting financial transactions that is far...
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.
In the two important volumes Either - Or and Stages on Life's Way, Kierkegaard from 1843 onwards had explored from within the Esthetic and
the ethical ways of life, and had done it with an imaginative insight and a dramatic richness scarcely surpassed in the history of literature.
«There are perfectly
ethical ways of obtaining stem cells to cure disease, which do not involve embryo destruction, so no matter what moral value one places on the human embryo, we do not need to use it.»
Because we live in a society where competition and measurement are valued and promoted, we must teach our students proper and
ethical ways of behaving, along with the responsibilities that come with competition.
Finally, there are
ethical ways of conducting a campaign and there are unethical ways.
Not exact matches
When you conduct yourself in an
ethical way and model the traits you want to see in others, you earn the respect
of those around you.
Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one
of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code
of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value
of the
ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in
ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.
As I discuss in my book,
Ethical Intelligence, the
way Hayward handled this fiasco remains the gold standard
of how not to apologize in business.
The difference between the two is that the
way of the
ethical merchant can increase the wealth and well - being
of people so that they can have a better life and take time for a spiritual purpose and an aesthetic life.»
The best
way to reap the benefits
of a reputation for being
ethical is not to pay much attention to those benefits, but to focus on the importance
of doing the right thing — for its own sake.
But I think it's a useful
way of framing the task
of applying
ethical standards to novel situations.
Using the language
of rights is a
way of making the strongest possible kind
of ethical claim, a
way to draw a line in the topsoil, as it were.
But those profits should not come at the sacrifice
of operating your business in an
ethical way.
«Repeatedly, and in different
ways, throughout this book, you actually demonstrate with a generous mix
of insight and proven examples, how» dog - eat - dog» marketing simply isn't necessary; how
ethical marketing is not only easier to implement but far more effective!
It's an urgent call to disrupt the traditional
way of gathering customer data — a process that is often impersonal and fraught with many
ethical grey areas.
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.
The longevity
of the coffee industry is directly linked to the social, economic and environmental conditions
of coffee communities around the world, and Starbucks is committed to sourcing all
of its coffee in the most
ethical way possible that is good for the planet.
Our goal is to give you outstanding customer service, delivered in an accountable and reliable
way, with the highest levels
of ethical conduct.
If you worry about what sort
of companies your investments are funding, or if you are adverse to profiting from interest from loans, sharia investing will offer you a
way to filter through all the options available and make
ethical choices.
She works with service, professional and service businesses
of all sizes, guarantees her coaching, and customizes solutions that increase each businesses revenue and profits in an
ethical way that is easy and effective to implement.
Several weeks back there was a bit
of a dust - up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any
ethical significance for the
way we live together in civil society?
«Although we are
ethical works - in - progress, the vast majority
of us are naturally positive creatures — meaning not harmful to our environments — most
of the time in most
of the
ways that matter.»
That is why I never speak
of «God» in philosophy, but only
of «universal will - to - live» which meets me in a twofold
way: as creative will outside me, and
ethical will within me» (Kraus, p. 42).
The best
way of testing this (putting aside
ethical concerns for a moment) would be to conduct an experiment in which one group did not have access to confidential abortion and another did, and then we could monitor the differences between them.
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.
Pope Benedict XVI offers a
way forward in his reflections in Jesus
of Nazareth, saying that being a Christian is not the result
of an
ethical choice but
of an encounter with a person which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.
The advantages for the individual which may be derived from compromises with atheistic organizations do not compare in any
way with the consequences which are visible in the destruction
of our common religious and
ethical values.
Isaiah
of Jerusalem is notable for the
way in which, far ahead
of his time, he translated the idea
of holiness into
ethical meanings.
Part
of the problem the
way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an
ethical ideal from one part
of scripture and use it to judge the actions
of God in another part
of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract
ethical judgments!
In his Stages on Life's
Way (SLW), Kierkegaard speaks
of irony as the means by which persons make the transition between aesthetic and
ethical awareness, and humor as the means for making the transition between
ethical and religious awareness.
The board made the right decision; we don't want kids to get the idea that their religion allows them to break their
ethical code for a time, change their mind at the end, and then demand that the league change their
way of doing business to acco.mmodate them.
Then the social -
ethical task
of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative society that manifests in its own social and political life the
way in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first order
of business.
He charts the constant threat
of barbarism, and suggests
ways to build up
ethical defenses against it.
The board made the right decision; we don't want kids to get the idea that their religion allows them to break their
ethical code for a time, change their mind at the end, and then demand that the league change their
way of doing business to accommodate them.
In the fourth chapter
of Man's Vision
of God — «God and Righteousness» — Hartshorne teaches us how neoclassical theology illuminates ethics in a
way that is socially critical and intellectually honest, that is, in a
way that is adequate to both
ethical and metaphysical criteria.
In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a
way that does not rule out the possibility
of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social -
ethical consequences
of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its
ethical content against the needs
of the struggle for liberation.
The
ethical and spiritual insights
of Jesus inevitably judge us if we are sensitive to them, yet his primary approach was a positive setting forth
of the
way in which men's sins could be overcome.
His
way of doing it is to stress the importance
of love and the genuine spiritual illumination that flowers in right
ethical living.
Also, once we have recognized that our
way of dealing with other types
of creatures is subject to
ethical judgment through and through, should our concern be more with species, with ecosystems, or with individual animals.
There is the
way in which
ethical deliberation draws upon the heritage
of the believing community for illumination and adjudication.
To see (in addition to the theological or
ethical values being expressed) the depth world
of human beings coming to the surface is in no
way to replace the one by the other, or to set the one over against the other.