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Moreover, I carefully pointed out that ethicists on this issue can basically be divided into two camps: those that view aborted fetuses as cadavers of a medical procedure and think that some good should come from abortions, and those that view aborted fetuses as victims of oppression, sin, and thoughtlessness, and therefore think that these victims should not be further exploited» especially under the guise of a «good cause.»

This becomes patently clear when consultations are called to bring together scientists and ethicists on such issues as nuclear power or genetic engineering.

Not exact matches

Speaking of the blurry line between humans and AI, ethicists have explored questions such as whether it's OK to inflict violence on robots.

When the controversial ethicist Peter Singer was hired by Princeton, there were protests over his views on euthanasia.

The Protestant ethicist James Gustafson keeps that impulse within a tighter discipline by his accent on the theocentric as distinct from the anthropocentric.

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.

He is a theological ethicist who teaches and writes on economic justice and poverty.

As the experience grew in me, I found my commitments stronger than ever and, at the same time, I knew that I could not, in the words of womanist ethicist Katie Cannon, «keep on keepin» on.»

Political ethicist Michael Ignatieff argues: «If we want human rights to be anchored in the world, we can not want their enforcement to depend on international institutions and NGOs.

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.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

Drawing on the German Lutheran theologian, Lebacqz, a United Church of Christ ethicist, suggests that «our worth is imparted by the love bestowed on us by God.

This fact was not lost on Julian Savulescu, the Oxford ethicist and student of Peter Singer, who asked: If Charlie's life is not worth living, why shouldn't we directly kill him?

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.

It is equally no accident that there are numerous articles and books on Levinas and Rosenzweig, all of which largely attempt to transform Rosenzweig into a Levinasian ethicist.

But on the other hand, as a matter of course, Socrates is not an essentially religious ethicist, still less a dogmatic one, as the Christian ethicist is.

A leading Catholic ethicist and economist, Daniel Rush Finn, has pointed out that the boundaries placed on the market are a critical element in «the moral ecology of markets.»

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.

The game is based on a harmless — and pretty ridiculous — concept, but the technology that it uses has some of the world's foremost researchers, futurists and ethicists deeply concerned about what lies ahead.

In September 2002, when a hundred scholars and ethicists signed a petition that read, «As Christian ethicists, we share a common moral presumption against a preemptive war on Iraq by the United States,» Elshtain was not numbered among the signatories.

«Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on the way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as unexceptionable.»

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.

At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.

Christian ethicists like Stanley Hauerwas have utilized what Aquinas wrote about the cardinal and theological virtues in their own work on the formation of Christian character.

As teacher, ethicist and theologian, I am particularly concerned about the moral and religious foundations on which we base our lives.

Perhaps theologians and ethicists are silent on the latter issue because they view eating as relatively harmless (except in its economic ramifications).

The leading figure of the present generation has been Al McFadyen (his major book is The Call to Personhood, and another is due soon on sin, with special reference to child abuse and to the Holocaust), and he has been joined by the ethicist Nigel Biggar.

The NIH Human Embryo Research Panel's chief ethicist, Professor Ronald Green, proposed that the intelligent and articulate members of a society should vote on whether other members of the species deserve the status of «personhood.»

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

Third, the ethicists I consulted and quoted in the article are national experts on the issue» it's not as if there is some key piece of information out there that the article overlooked.

And while the analysis that addresses these issues can be indebted to Christian tradition, the theologian who thinks about such issues may well be so innovative in relation to historic Christian reflection that his or her work on these topics is indistinguishable from that of the ecologist, the secular ethicist, or the economic theorist (cf. CNT 253).

Hang on a sec — let me put on my Ethicist Dude hat.

The Forum on Human Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applications.

At a symposium sponsored by the Hastings Center on October 26 before the World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, ethicists and journalists explored the flip side of that discussion: whether parents have a moral obligation to make «better» babies through genetic engineering.

But Leemon McHenry, a medical ethicist at California State University in Northridge who has investigated the use of ghostwriters on articles about other drugs, thinks that the practice stretches beyond these high - profile cases.

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.

The National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (NHRPAC), a committee of scientists, lay patient advocates, lawyers, professional society members, and ethicists, previously advised DHHS on research matters, but — in a politically charged decision — its charter was allowed to expire recently.

BUSH: After consulting religious leaders, physicians, scientists, and ethicists, the president issued a Solomonic decision on August 9, 2001.

These were just a few of the questions raised in an open meeting on 10 October 2002 in Washington, D.C. Within the ornate halls of the National Academy of Sciences building, members of the scientific and legal communities, ethicists, and representatives from funding agencies and professional societies discussed a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct.

But as the project has evolved, members have emphasized that the part of GP - write focused on the human genome will move at a slower pace than the other genomes being constructed, and the effort will involve ethicists every step of the way.

«Medical ethicists challenge court ruling on lethal injection in Alabama case: Ruling in death penalty case would have a chilling effect on physicians» willingness to serve as experts in capital punishment trials.»

The FDA also announced in June that a new committee of ethicists, journalists, and marketing specialists would advise the agency on communicating drug risks to the public.

It could be women and disabled people, according to a summit of scientists, ethicists and lawyers held in Paris last week by the Committee on Human Gene Editing, part of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Based on the assumption that brainstem death means life has ended, I would draw the opposite conclusions to medical ethicist...

The committee will draw up a set of recommendations based on the questions and comments raised by the audience — a mix of scientists, ethicists and lawyers.

The first part of the pattern constitutes a novel perspective on self - control, whereas the second part is «consistent with previous theorizing on why good people behave badly,» notes Ann Tenbrunsel, an ethicist at Mendoza College of Business who was not part of the study.

In 2004 Blackburn and ethicist William F. May made headlines when the Bush administration ousted them from the President's Council on Bioethics for their strong public support of human embryonic stem cell research.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 2 - day National Academy of Sciences (NAS) workshop here last week exposed just how far scientists, ethicists, and regulators are from agreeing on the best way to move forward with genome editing in animals.