Sentences with phrase «ethics of»

The ethics of authorship, obligation to cite prior work, and problems of multiple authorship have been analyzed in an article in Science.13 Others have been concerned about the humane treatment of animals, which are crucial in experimental biology and pharmacology.

GoFundMe pages request funds for adoption, surrogacy themes make for moving narratives and articles debate the ethics of in - vitro fertilization.

There is no relation between the pure unitarian system, the most perfect and refined ethics of the Holy Book of Islam, and the ignorance, paganism, superstitious idolatry, arrogant materialism, infanticide, prostitution, incest, dowry extortion, oppression of orphans, disregard for the poor, and scorn of the weak which were characteristics of Mecca in those times.

Wherever the tide falls low enough elsewhere, the ethics of the autonomous self may surface and prevail.

Our schools praise the virtues of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ethics of social inlcusion, but apparently very few of us understand how these ethics are rooted in spirituality.

The «right to die» has limited support in the ethics of the Western religious traditions.

Do u believe in ethics of any kind at all?

But more precisely, the mission signifies something other than an ethics of duty, just as the passion for the possible signifies something other than what is arbitrary.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

This second trait of freedom in the light of hope removes us further than the first trait did from the existential interpretation, which is too much centered on the present decision; for the ethics of the mission has communitarian, political, and even cosmic implications, which the existential decision, centered on personal interiority, tends to hide.

Stoicism is doubtless the most developed expression of this ethics of the present; the present, for Stoicism, is the unique time of salvation; the past and the future are equally discredited; in one stroke, hope is rejected for the same reason as fear, as a disturbance, an agitation, which proceeds from a revocable opinion concerning imminent evils or coming goods.

Nevertheless, a new ethics marks the linkage of freedom to hope — what Moltmann calls the ethics of the mission (Sendung); the promissio involves a missio, in the mission, the obligation which engages the present proceeds from the promise, opens the future.

Deontological and utilitarian theories can be seen as different versions of an ethics of duty wherein one is supposed to have a disposition to choose for the sake of what is antecedently established as right.

The Parmenidean «It is» in effect calls for an ethics of the eternal present; this is sustained only by a continual contradiction between, on the one hand, a detachment, an uprooting from passing things, a distancing and an exile in the eternal, and, on the other hand, consent without reservation to the order of the whole.

He follows the historical emphasis of ethics of character and virtue by stressing such notions as consistency, reliability, dependability, integrity, and predictability as features of the good person (VV 53 - 63).

Hauerwas» pacifism, in my view, is pivotal in his response to modernism and the concomitant capacity of humans to commit omnicide; it is crucial to how he develops an ethics of character and virtue, the Christian story, and the relationship between the church and the world.

While the content of this brief excursus into the basic tenets of process - relational thought will be familiar to most readers of this journal, it sets the stage for my development of an ethics of character and virtue, of the understanding of the Christian story, and the church - world relationship from a process perspective.

Glen Stassen points out: «The farther the book goes, the less specific it gets about the ethics of the New Testament Jesus....

In developing an ethics of character and virtue, Hauerwas maintains that «we are our character» (PK 39).

Fulfillment entails a notion vital to the development of an ethics of character and virtue from a process perspective, that all creatures, all actuality, drive towards the experience of beauty, richness of experience.

At a recent conference on the ethics of withdrawing nourishment and fluids from mentally incompetent patients, I was approached by an acquaintance who is close to retirement age.

But it should be noted that within an ethics of virtue it is possible to have a teleological dimension (pace Von Wright, Foot, and Hare) as well as a non-teleological dimension (as in G. E. M. Anscombe, Wallace, Peter Geach, MacIntyre, and even Aristotle, who has a prominent place for deontos in his ethics9).

However, Hauerwas is quite aware that historic ethics of character and virtue have assumed a substantialist understanding of the self.

This confessional postmodernism is based on a «tripod,» three interrelated legs: (1) an ethics of character and virtue, (2) the cultivation and shaping of character and virtue through an ongoing participation in the Christian story and narrative, and (3) a separatist understanding of the relationship between the church and the world.

Even this approach may become an ethics of ideals which, after all, are themselves abstractions.

The interrelated legs of his tripod — the development of an ethics of character and virtue grounded in a view of the self that is unclear and that lends itself to a substantialist interpretation, an essentialist understanding of the Christian story, and a separatist position on the church - world — are mutually dependent on each other for their internal consistency and coherence.

For example, it is committed to requiring course on business ethics of all students.

We argue that Nietzsche is embracing an ancient rather than a modern view of ethics, what has been called an «ethics of virtue» rather than an ethics of rules and principles, rather than an ethic that looks mainly to the spread of well - being and happiness («utilitarianism»).

Turning to morals, it has often been noticed that the ethics of most religious systems are very similar to each other.

For the remainder of the section on the ethics of Mahayana, Wach follows quite closely de la Vallée Poussin's article «Bodhisattva» in the 1922 edition of James Hastings, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.

The ethics of giving are different from the ethics of taking.

Any other usage, it is claimed, violates «the ethics of words.

His work since then has focused increasingly on questions of animal rights, on the ethics of vegetarianism, and on blurring the distinctions between fiction and autobiography.

If space allowed for further delineation of the social ethics of these representative evangelicals, it would prove illuminating.

2The phrase «the ethics of words» is utilized by Sidney Hook in his essay «The Atheism of Paul Tillich» in Religious Experience and truth, edited by Sidney Hook (New York: New York University Press, 1961), p. 59, and also by Corliss Lamont in The Philosophy of Humanism (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1967), p. 143, to discredit redefinitions of God.

Hauerwas teaches an ethics of argument: develop and proclaim your views in sympathetic appreciation of those with whom you most fundamentally disagree.

I continue to be troubled by the structure of David Jones» argument regarding the ethics of cremation.Let's review his conclusion: After reviewing some of the key historical, biblical, and theological considerations that have been a part of the moral discussion of cremation within the....

Indeed, we must suppose that a good deal of the current ethics of Judaism is silently taken for granted.

It is evident from what has already been said that the ethics of Jesus are predominantly concerned with the dignity and responsibility of the human individual face to face with God.

For the temptation to treat God thus is not merely the temptation of those who practice a politics taken from Holy Scripture, or an ethics of the same type, against whom it is easy to be on guard.

Though some pro-life activists praised these efforts to expose a practice that critics of Planned Parenthood — and abortion in general — find immoral, the investigation itself raised many questions about the ethics of the so - called «sting.»

by Alburey Castell [New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1949], p. 106 f.) Despite these resemblances, the ethics of pragmatism differs from that of Buber's dialogical philosophy in two central points.

He predicts that as these stresses make themselves felt in the industrial sector, our ethics of affluence will shift into an ethics of triage.

I have been engaged in developing another paradigm for the ethics of peace and war besides that of pacifism and just war theory — just peacemaking.

Even in Eliot's last novel, Daniel Deronda, with its remarkable and unprecedented portrayal of Jews in England, it is the ethics of Judaism that she — like Matthew Arnold with his notion of the Hebraic «strictness of conscience» — admires, not its metaphysics.

Readers familiar with Max Weber's famous essay «Politics as a Vocation,» which calls for an ethic that falls between a romantic «ethics of ultimate ends» and a worldly «ethics of responsibility,» will recognize affinities between that classic text and Küng's project.

In Canada, evangelical pastors have been assessed heavy monetary fines for preaching the Gospel truth about the ethics of love and marriage.

Even the ethics of the book have been called into question.

He wrote in Orthodoxy of the Ethics of Elfland, rightly seeing them as the ethics of everyman.

Using biblical stories told by and about Jesus as his starting point, Cox offers a series of wide - ranging reflections on everything from the ethics of in vitro fertilization to the biblical accuracy of the Left Behind novels.