Sentences with phrase «ethicists for»

And I include many who look to economists and ethicists for guidance without reflecting much for themselves.

This is purely in the Greek spirit — yet not Socratic, for Socrates was too much of an ethicist for that.

Criticizing an ethicist for making moral judgments would be like taking to task a movie reviewer who makes aesthetic judgments about the latest films.

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Tristan Harris, a former Design Ethicist at Google, who The Atlantic Magazine called the «closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,» currently heads the Center for Humane Technology.

He has now teamed up with ex Google ethicist Tristan Harris in the creation of The Center for Human Technology — an alliance of Silicon Valley notables dedicated to «realigning technology with humanity's best interests.»

Our time calls for contributions from philosophers, theologians and ethicists in dialogue with scientists, economists and politicians.

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.

First, they indicate that the disdain many theologians and ethicists have for the «middle - class» church is unjustified.

John Kavanaugh, a brilliant ethicist, went to live for three months in Mother Teresa's House of the Dying in Calcutta on a personal pilgrimage to find guidance and a clear vision for the rest of his life.

Famed Christian ethicist John Howard Yoder had sexual abuse allegations circling for decades before anyone took them seriously.

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.

I am particularly suspicious of situation ethicists like Sinks when they plead the «Great Commandment as a basis for ending a marriage «in order that the individual might flourish.»

In practice, though, ethicists often exercise a preferential option for some single metaphor.

Recognizing that the concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these concerns can be combined with those of the land ethicist into a single environmental ethic.

So stated, theology appears to be a set datum that the ethicist may assess to find implications for the practical life.

Doctors raise fascinating problems for which the ethicist is tempted to try to provide answers.

Robert McAfee Brown, whose name is symbolic for engaged theologian and ethicist, is perhaps best known for being able to write clearly, for example, in Theology in a New Key: Responding to Liberation Theology and Saying Yes and Saying No: On Rendering to God and Caesar.

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

In light of your three categories, would you say that the materialist or the ethicist can believe in Jesus for eternal life?

Partly because of such misuse and the potential for more healthy appropriation, ethicists recently have been giving more attention to the question of how the Bible can be used in moral decision - making.

This is a good opportunity for me to say publicly how much I, as an evangelical social ethicist, have been influenced by Marty's writings.

On a personal note, I am very happy to write because we as a family have much to thank Dr. Abraham for - a man who as a pastor to us lived out the principles that he teaches as a theological ethicist.

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

What sorts of oppressions, for example, are being supported in novels of traditional realism, and what sort of «meaning» is being canonized when an ethicist writes that «the unity of the self is like the unity exhibited in a good novel»?

And most Christian ethicists would reject torture as an appropriate penalty for any offense.

Lewis Smedes, theologian, ethicist and pastor, once preached a sermon in which he recalled a scene from A Man for All Seasons.

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.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

However, this would be a theme both for a poet and for an ethicist who would defend marriage.

«It's hard enough being a Lutheran ethicist,» they said, «if one always has a bad conscience for speaking of good works.»

With this need in mind, pastors and ethicists organized a day - long conference in mid-April on «Organ and Tissue Donation: Role of the Ministry» to inform pastors about the current need for donor organs and to help them approach the topic of organ donation during bereavement counseling.

Socialism has been attractive to many social ethicists precisely because it is clearly of the second type» a concrete blueprint, based on an allegedly scientific understanding of the forces of history and providing some reasonably clear guidelines for action.

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).

Ethicist James B. Nelson goes much too far when he argues that «we who call ourselves Christians bear major responsibility for the problems created by the AIDS crisis....

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.

James Clemons, in his article «Suicide and Christian Moral Judgment,» rightly indicts biblical scholars, Christian ethicists and contemporary pastors for neglecting to think through suicide - related issues in a responsible manner (The Christian Century.

For some ethicists, a prudential hedonism must describe human behavior.

The resident ethicist at the New York Times even offers a guide to fully eunuchizing sex, advising a man who hopes to open his marriage without endangering it: «This may be an argument for the sin of Onan, where there's only yourself to fall in love with.»

A number of Christian theologians and ethicists have mistaken the Bible's understandable agnosticism about modern economics for some sort of countercultural radicalism.

Mainline ethicists stress that structures and societies themselves are moral agents which in their adoption must be evaluated for their coherence with one's basic message and stance.

A law forbidding all abortion after 14 days would have potential support from embryologists and ethicists, so it would be a solid basis for presenting to legislators.

Hicks omits criteria for making normative judgments about what levels of inequality are just — normative criteria that Christian ethicists of an earlier generation called «middle axioms» between broad theological and moral principles and policy judgments.

Even if the issue really were as depicted, that is, the wellbeing of the many versus that of the few, there would be reason for ethicists to examine matters with some care.

Racism was a problem we left to Christian ethicists; it had not been for us a theological issue.

Talone, the St. John's ethicist, was subsequently promoted to director of ethics for the Catholic Health Association.

Retrieving this often hidden or diminished female tradition of catalytic action is an important task for womanist theologians and ethicists.

The theological rationale for withdrawing feedings from the so «called «vegetative» person was first provided by such ethicists as Father Kevin O'Rourke, now director emeritus of The Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis.

This book, written by a theologian and ethicist, is such an endeavor in drawing out the implications of the process - relational vision for the various facets of our lives.

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.

In writing about the policy, I spoke to pediatricians and ethicists who laid out their reasons for the advice: