1) How physicians understand research
ethics problems in Russia Presenter: Leila Akhmadeeva, Bashkir State Medical University, Russia Co-authors: Gulnara Rayanova, Bashkir State Medical University, Russia; Boris Veytsman, George Mason University, USA
In this Year of the Corruption Trials in New York State — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address
ethics problems in state government.
Good - government groups criticized the agreement at the time for falling short of addressing structural
ethics problems in state government.
In this Year of the Corruption Trials in New York — where at least five such trials have, are or will take place — Cuomo and the Legislature could not even come together on watered - down versions of measures to address
ethics problems in state government.
At the same time, 43 % of those polled said that they believe Cuomo is part of
the ethics problem in Albany, including 68 % of Republicans and 51 % of independents.
Not exact matches
The parallel between
problem - solving
in engineering and
problem solving
in ethics, Whitbeck argues, suggests the following advice:
On Monday,
in an attempt to clear out any more undiscovered scandals, the Montreal - based firm announced it would provide amnesty this summer to any employee with information regarding the company's
ethics problems.
«It's the funders that create the
problem,» says Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes
in legal
ethics.
Setting aside my personal — and legally irrelevant — disgust at the idea (the «yuck factor,» as one evangelical leader infamously dubbed it, is really no sound basis for building our sexual
ethics), it seems that the typical objection to such relationships is that they might lead to congenital
problems in any offspring that result from the union.
I have flagged up the
problem of consent as the foundation of sexual
ethics before, but it seems that legal thinking on marriage has thus far proceeded without having to acknowledge the manifold difficulties inherent
in the concept.
Mark Bauerlein's post on the rhetoric of anti-discrimination points clearly to the
problem which traditionalists face:
In a world where ethics is aesthetics, the language of victimhood has become a subjective concept which is a potent weapon in the hands of the powerfu
In a world where
ethics is aesthetics, the language of victimhood has become a subjective concept which is a potent weapon
in the hands of the powerfu
in the hands of the powerful.
But,
in my opinion, the western Christianity has a serious
problem on the field of
ethics (and not only on the field of sexual
ethics).
Previous chapters
in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian
ethics to the culture of our times
in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the
problems of war and peace
in the international scene.
The
problem of an enduring
ethic and culture consists
in finding an arrangement of the pieces by which they remain related, as do the stones arranged
in an arch.
One does not have to have a doctorate
in ethics to see the
problem here.
Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are
problems of moral decline», an «increase
in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work
ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.
Thus, what appears on the surface to be a secular and social
problem is ultimately rooted
in a deeply religious
ethic.
What interests me about the family is not the obvious social
problems associated with it
in contemporary life; nor am I particularly interested
in the
ethics of sexuality.
In discussing Old Testament
ethics, we are not faced with the usual
problem of trying to pick out a consensus from a welter of diverging viewpoints and methods.
This is the familiar
problem of «love perfectionism» and the absoluteness of Jesus»
ethics in contrast with the necessary relativity of their application.
The question of how biblical
ethics can or should be used
in facing today's moral
problems is a second stage which Christian and Jewish ethicists address.
«Character
ethics» emphasizes that the foundation of our decisions lies
in the peculiar virtues and habits that each of us brings to a moral
problem.
Niebuhr, wrestling with the contrast between individual and group
ethics, summarized the
problem in the following way:
One might wish that Taylor had considered more fully a possibility that emerges only
in one rather long footnote — the possibility that a distinction, though not utter separation, of the spheres of politics and
ethics might go some way toward addressing the
problem that concerns him.
Cynthia Crysdale, professor of faith development and
ethics at Catholic University
in Washington, D.C., considers this
problem of suffering» — as it is so blandly called — the centerpiece of contemporary theology.
Reinhold Niebuhr, «The
Ethic of Jesus and the Social
Problem,»
in Love and Justice, p. 253 (hereafter cited as Niebuhr, «The
Ethic of Jesus and the Social
Problem»).
A large part of the
problem of social and political
ethics lies
in distinguishing between its use and misuse.
The importance of the power
problem for Christian
ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of men
in their social relations.
But to Miss Gebbie, the main
problem is that our common
ethic «misrepresents information, denies sexuality early, denies homosexual sexuality — particularly
in teens — and leaves people abandoned with no place to go.»
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.
Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian
ethics which confined itself to the
ethics of law and
ethics of grace and ignored the
ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the
problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law
in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace
in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant
in the realm of existence
in grace
in Protestant thought.
These four
problems confront all projects
in economic
ethics.
For this reason our deliberation must constantly glance over into the field of
ethics, while
in order to be able to acquire significance it must grasp the
problem with aesthetic intensity and concupiscence.
She is currently working on an anthology concerning approaches to environmental
problems with a biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical system as a foundation for environmental
ethics in Environmental
Ethics 8/3.
That
problem is the abuse of the metaphor of «the seamless garment» and of the principle expressed
in a «consistent
ethic of life.»
It appears, then, that the
problem that we have set ourselves, the
problem of the way
in which
ethics and religion are related
in the ethical religion which is Christianity, may be attacked by way of examining the literary records of kerygma and didaché, the proclamation and the ethical instruction» respectively, and trying to trace the relation between them.
Similarly, I hope that if you've decided to vote for Clinton, you've spoken out concerning the ongoing
ethics problems that go back decades and now continue to surface every day, and her stance on abortion and many more issues that defile all people who are made
in the image of God.
One of the major
problems in Christian theology and social
ethics is to relate this warning against the danger of self - righteousness on all sides to the necessity of taking a stand.
In the name of freedom of the individual, we sacrifice them to that caricature of Christianity that some people call «the Protestant
ethic,» an
ethic that finds no way of dealing directly and massively with large - scale social
problems.
In that case, presumably, social
ethics has been the intellectual activity through which Christians have tried to figure out the moral
problems of contemporary society.
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In the New Testament the characteristic new situation is the interface between Jewish and Gentile Christians and the derivative
problems of
ethics and organization.
In the end, my biggest
problem with the book — and the particular Christian eschatological vision that underlies it — is that Hauerwas never tries to imagine what real life would look like if we adopted his
ethic.
In fact, some critics have argued that White - head has no moral philosophy at all and that the
problems of
ethics were not of great interest to him (RAWG).
A great deal of our contemporary
problem about «love perfectionism» centers
in the attempt to ground
ethics either
in human nature or
in the structure of social institutions.
Schweitzer shows how the Franciscan spirit
in its very directness of attack on the
problem of
ethics finds perplexities which force a reappraisal of the foundations of ethical life.
In the view of Jesus there can be no such
ethic, and therefore it is fundamentally a mistake to look to him for concrete ethical requirements or for his attitude toward concrete ethical
problems.
The idea of right, therefore,
in the beginning of the Old Testament, suffered the limitation of externality, and this limitation continued to be, as Jesus found it, one of the outstanding
problems of Hebrew
ethics.
Ingrained
in Ruether's argument are solutions to two
problems which have long plagued not only ecological
ethics but feminist thought and Roman Catholic natural law
ethics.
The central
problem of Christian
ethics lies
in the fact that we are told
in the Sermon on the Mount, «Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,» while the experience of every honest - minded Christian requires him to admit the truth
in, «When ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants.»
For instance, why not send out reprints of a case study that concludes with an agonizing
problem in medical
ethics about whether to prolong life or let die.