Sentences with phrase «ethicists do»

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

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In fact, as John Fletcher, ethicist at the University of Virginia, has said, «You don't have to be religious to realize that there ought to be a debate about....

Mr. Doer flinger, summarizing Smith, writes that «modern secular bio ethics often sets itself against religion, and [Smith] even quotes ethicist Daniel Callahan as saying that the «first thing» bioethics had to do to establish itself was «to push religion aside.

Indeed, in a complex society where no one can grasp more than a few of the details, some of the most important practical theology will have to be done by specialists in medicine, law or business, or by theologians and ethicists whose training equips them for specialized roles in those institutions.

Still others, like the Aristotelian virtue ethicists Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Hauerwas, worry that human beings who do unpleasant deeds are more likely to do them again.

Ethicists have always worried about «borderline situations,» in which clear rules do not yield clear direction, or about the «perplexed conscience,» which leaves a person bewildered in the midst of difficult decisions.

I did not become an ethicist because my primary interest was social change or particular moral «issues.»

A very smart ethicist from Harvard asks me, «Why does America have to have a mission in the world any more than Luxembourg has to have a mission in the world?»

Ethicists today consider their area not just the normative task of what people ought to do and why but also the analytic and descriptive enterprise of how and why people in fact do act.

As a medical ethicist, how do you regard the use of triage in wartime and in emergency medical procedures?

But the influence of the cultural conditioning by this system is such that most universities and educational systems and even international lawyers, ethicists and moral theologians do not consider this aspect of the world injustice.

In this light, it is not the case that we would abandon a moral, religious, aesthetic or political life for a life of doing logic, but rather, we would not leave the moral life to the ethicists, the religious life to the theologians and customary religious practices, and the political life to the politicians and political scientists, just as we surely would not leave propositions in the hands of the logicians.4

Jewish ethicists speak of the principle of bal tashchit, which means «do not destroy.»

Because virtue ethicists tend to trace their lineage back to Aristotle, when they discuss the connection between ethics and metaphysics they also tend to do so in Aristotelian terms, specifically in terms of a natural teleology that tries to determine which functional properties are essential for a full human life.

Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).

Besides, theologians and ethicists have to recognize that most of us do not naturally have the perspective of the poor.

Unlike many ecological ethicists and post-Christian feminists, she insists that humans did not originally live lightly on the earth in harmonious, paradisiacal groups.

Furnish made these points in 1972, but this writer is not aware of much that has been done since byprofessional ethicists to make love more central to ethics.

I don't doubt there are safe and compassionate hospitals out there or even compassionate doctors in hospitals that generally aren't, but when a large portion of women are looking for homebirth because their hospital experiences were the antithesis of compassionate, these ethicists need to be looking at what they are suggesting.

«We also retained independent ethicist counsel to ensure that we were doing everything correctly.

Dr. Salomon, who helped organize the workshop with Alan Langnas, DO, of the University of Nebraska, noted that it is important to involve a wide range of stakeholders — including physicians and surgeons, government officials, patients and families, ethicists, and legal scholars — in discussions on how to define that line.

Other ethicists worry that fears of eugenics will be raised if testing can be done for less - serious conditions.

Ethicists argue that «not a problem now» doesn't mean «never a problem.»

NSF doesn't necessarily know what a university is doing, notes medical ethicist Elizabeth Heitman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, who co-authored a recently published study of how research - intensive universities are implementing the RCR mandate from NSF.

«The Good Egg» draws a link between the viability of the egg before conception and the intrinsic value of the embryo: «If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?»

«The report rightly identified governance as a critical issue but it does not go far enough in advocating democratic engagement,» says Zahra Meghani, an ethicist at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

If, as some ethicists argue, nascent life must be protected, how do we assess the degree of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent of the time?

There's been a * bit * of discussion in regards to Randy Cohen, writer of the «Ethicist» column at the New York Times who advised someone that had downloaded a pirated eBook of a Stephen King book he already owned that ethically he had done an «okay» thing.

There are, however, only a few ethicists who can do this work well because it is an inherently nondisciplinary challenge and the ethicists must be willing to dig into the scientific and economic controversies entailed by climate change as they unfold.

In other words, of all folks, really, responsible ethicists and (practical) moral philosophers should be doing whatever it takes, at this point, to bring about ethically sound ACTION.

Rather than judge right or wrong behavior on the basis of reason and what people should or should not do, virtue ethicists focus on the development of character or what people should be.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented Peter Singer - Ethicist.

For cybersecurity ethicists, however, an ethical attorney is not just doing one thing; they are in a constant state of evolution and growth to keep pace with threats and best practices.

So he asked The New York Times Magazine's ethicist, Randy Cohen, what do you think?

The first is that legal ethicists (including me) tend to focus on the limits on lawyer conduct, on the things that lawyers ought not to do when representing clients.

But when you talk to actual ethicists, as Ricardo Bilton of Digiday did, you'll learn that «questioning the ethics of ad blocking ignores that neither publishers nor their digital advertising partners are exactly on firm ethical ground either.»

Although ethicists criticized the arrangement as falling short of the blind trusts set up by recent former presidents, Trump said he was doing more than he had to and noted that an ethics law that applies to most executive branch officials exempts the president.