Sentences with phrase «for ethical thinking»

In a panel discussion I chaired recently at Pace University's Center for Ethical Thinking, Dr. Mirele Goldsmith, a New York based environmental psychologist, recounted a case of communal activism as an example of a specific kind of environmental citizenship.

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«Ethical quandaries aside (of which there are several) for a moment, I think this strategy speaks poorly of the startup,» said one comment.

It is all too tempting to think of ethical leadership as a question only for CEOs or for top - tier executives.

But before we think about taxing robots and AI, we need to get the basics of the self - learning technology right, and develop comprehensive ethical standards that hold up for the long term.

For that reason, organizations should give as much thought to the ethical content of their policies as they do to promulgating and enforcing them.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

The Roundtable's goal is to provide a forum for thought leadership, where industry professional have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills and to network with other individuals committed to advancing the industry with the highest ethical standards.

He said: «We need to think very seriously about whether or not it's ethical for us to patronise those organisations that do things that in a very direct way violate our moral standards.

In the chapter «Exploring Romance,» Trafford relates a story that highlights the need for more rigorous ethical thought about what healthy use of «my time» means.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

Conservative candidate for Aylesbury, David Lidington, said: «Whether you look at Ebola and our response to that, whether you look at the # 2.3 billion that was allocated to humanitarian relief in the Syrian refugee crisis, I think the Conservative Party can say that we've got a good track record on delivering practical policies with that clear ethical foundation.»

It is not old - fashioned to think about parenting and concern for children as among the central ethical issues of life, says Bateson.

We may as Christians think that the notion of peace has sufficiently penetrated the life and history of the Church to secure a satisfactory ethical basis for Christian conflict resolution, a peace ministry or to carry out the World Council of Churches» «Program to Overcome Violence» and that the Church, therefore, is not pressed for other alternatives.

Socrates thus contrasted the reality of the experient and rational subject, the soul, with the world of appearance in a way quite new for Greek ethical thought.

So then, such an ironic - ethical correction might very well be what our age needs, and perhaps the only thing it really needs; for it is evident that this is the thing it least thinks of.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

In sum, Nussbaum has been engaged for some years now in a fascinating and important project in ethical thought.

Within the ethical thinking regarding pure sacrifice that I am opposing, one's decision to be responsible for this person rather than that appears to be entirely arbitrary.

For our analytical thought, sin was of two sorts, ritual and ethical; but it is highly dubious that any such distinction existed in early times — each was a transgression of the will of God.

The concept of tragedy seems indispensable to refer to certain fundamental aspects of human moral experience, and yet it poses many perplexities for theological and ethical thought.

Although the attachment of a feeling of promise, for good or ill, to a proposition in the context of an entity's self - creation might suggest that the «logical force» of propositions is an ethical one, it could just as easily be thought of as an aesthetic one.

«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

For one thing, in a Jewish context «ethics» covers a much wider swath of human behavior than what most people think of when they use ethical categories.

«48 Process thought offers a basis for a personalistic ethics that would be an alternative to Altizer's call for an ethical life of self - annihilation.

In this regard he seemed to feel, long before men knew it, the steady inflexibility of God's cosmic method, its austere disregard of ethical considerations, its vast background of procedure without thought of human merit or demerit — a dependable, impartial training - ground for souls.

Instead, if taken seriously as the basis for human life and thought, materialism would strangle any ethical aspiration.

It must stand at the service of rational thought as a necessary or completing element in the search for an optimistic and ethical world view.

For instance, thinking about God's ways with humankind in general can open us to insights and understandings about an ethical issue.

Schweitzer's ethical mysticism begins with a reflective observation of the finite world («I am urge - to - life»), moves to an empirical generalization («in the midst of other wills - to - live»), is made cosmic by an intuitive insight, which is the completing or mystical element of thought («all is part of a cosmic or universal will - to - live»), and returns to the finite for experiential verification in ethical participation («Ethics alone can put me in true relationship with the universe by my serving it, cooperating with it; not by trying to understand it... It is through community of life, not community of thought, that I abide in harmony... [«The Ethics of Reverence for Life,» Christendom, Vol.

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.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

It is to face God instead of turning away from God; it is to change one's mind about life and to accept a new set of values for life; it is to effect, through the help of Christ, an ethical change in life, so that action and even thought become cleansed and purified.

I have a special reason for gratefulness to him since he was perhaps the first person who thought of taking a doctorate based on my writings on social ethics from which I learned what my ethical methodology was.

An ongoing admission of mutual screwed - upness, even within our ethical enclaves, might clear the air for the possibility of candor and sane thinking and, perhaps, listening.

In temporal occasions the initial aim is always an aim at some intensity of feeling both in the occasion itself and in its relevant future.13... The relations of an individual's own future and those of others introduce tensions that are highly relevant to man's ethical thinking.14 In God, however, there are no such tensions because the ideal strength of beauty for himself and for the world coincide.15 Hence, we may simplify and say that God's aim is at ideal strength of beauty and that this aim is eternally unchanging.

For if the ethical (i.e. the moral) is the highest thing, and if nothing incommensurable remains in man in any other way but as the evil (i.e. the particular which has to be expressed in the universal), then one needs no other categories besides those which the Greeks possessed or which by consistent thinking can be derived from them.

We think it is the sense of the fifth commandment in its present place and sequence that mother and father are to be honored not for what they are intrinsically or sentimentally or even out of any particular moral or ethical or sociological considerations; but pointedly in acknowledgment of Yahweh's claim on every life.

In a more ethical vein, Niebuhr thought of original sin as our tendency to make our own perspectives absolute, to transform our sense of the good into the good for everyone.

Hi Ella, I do really like this post and agree with most of what you're saying, however I would like to know what you think about the ethical side of being vegan / vegetarian because personally I think you SHOULD restrict yourself from eating animal products, considering the pain and suffering an animal has had to go through unecessarily for you to eat them.

Although I don't consume dairy primarily for ethical reasons, I don't think it's healthy either.

And as always, Thought sent me one of their beautiful clothing pieces for me to showcase along with the recipe — all organic, sustainable and ethical.

I'm here for a week - long yoga workshop and am excited to share some thoughts on sustainable and ethical eating from a yogic perspective with you.

If you think it's ethical, do you think it's ethical of the doctor to withhold the same recommendation from the next woman with the same indication, or would it be ethical for him to go two times a day, every day, to the home of the woman who turned out to have needed the intervention to help her with the wheelchair of her brain - damaged child for the next 30 years?

If you think The Guardian should introduce an ethical policy for sponsors and partners for its roundtable discussions and reports, then email: [email protected]

As a pediatric professional, you are certainly very entitled to your opinions but I think it would be fair and ethical to note that the NICH, AAP, First Candle / SIDS Alliance, CJ Foundation for SIDS and hundreds of experts and child fatality review teams that deal with infant death every across the US would disagree with your statements.

«Right or wrong, I think they've fallen into the same problem as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA] and Greenpeace at different parts in their histories as being too extreme to recognize individual needs,» she said.

«If he's paying for tickets for fair market value and the individual or entity he bought them from doesn't have any business before the government, I don't think it raises any ethical concerns,» Horner said.

I never thought the dems senate leadership could actually become more incompetent but Krueger pushed out for Stewart Cousins, at least Krueger was one of the few ethical if not blindly liberal people left in the conference.

«I don't think henerally no matter, that it is a fair and ethical way for Americans to conduct themselves.»