Sentences with phrase «for modern ethics»

The bible is a collection of documents spread over a thousand years that itself is over 2,000 years old from an ancient culture no longer extant, and therefore should not be solely relied upon for a rule book for modern ethics.»

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«While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president [in the West Wing], I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees,» she said.

To be sure, Schneewind did this in part for the sake of explaining how modern moral philosophy had developed by turning away from that received ethic.

christians, embarrassed by disgusting and evil commands like that, make excuses for the bible in order to bring it up to date with modern ethics.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Modern moral philosophy becomes part of the problem, for its stress on autonomy, like its corresponding attempt to free ethics from history, produces people incapable of living lives that have narrative coherence.

Take no heed for the morrow, resist not the evil person, never divorce, give to anyone who asks, don't defend oneself in court — such an ethic strikes moderns as so other - worldly as to be absurd.

Niebuhr had a tremendous impact on the fields of Christian social ethics and modern theology, and many of us who labor in these fields are grateful for it.

Thus to the extent that an environmental ethic would have to grow out of at least some appreciation and reverence for the mystery of nature, modern ideals of clear and exhaustive explanation can easily prove deleterious if they overrun their legitimate epistemological margins.

For a «Supreme Court justice to express himself so freely on religious matters is unequaled in the modern era,» observed Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University Law School, one of many alarmed respondents cited by Chandler.

Modern ethics took for granted that the ethical agent is a self contained individual remaining self - identical through time.

The point is that the perfect ethics of nishkama for the self - realized and the relative ethics of artha, kama and dharma of the world of plurality, were both posited in traditional and modern ethical systems of Hinduism.

American Catholicism, for example, may have developed a superior capacity for corporate success — both in business and in other large - scale organizations — by adapting the church's premodern and patriarchal ethic of solidarity to the disciplines of modern industrialization; but the Catholicism so created is hardly the same as that which the immigrants left behind, along with much of the rest of Europe's agrarian past.

In ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferences.

The poll found a middling reviews for the ethics agreement struck in Albany, nor were they in agreement with Cuomo's claim the session was «the probably the most successful in modern history, the poll found.

A documentary about the ethics of using animals for food, clothing, entertainment and biomedical research in the modern world.

Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective (J625 / 06) A simple spreadsheet which could be used by students and teachers either as a revision aid for assessment points or to track understanding throughout the course as each section is completed.

However, modern stories and popular television shows and movies also provide opportunities for ethics discussions.

The mission of Bick Publishing House for Teens / Young Adults is to relate modern science and its ethics, communications arts, philosophy, psychology to the teenager's world, so they can make their own responsible decisions about their own lives and future.

But, if DayJet could embrace the Treehugger ethic of modern but green... we may be in for a quite a ride.

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