Sentences with phrase «foundation of ethics»

As a member of the Retail Contractors Association (RCA), Lakeview is committed to serving the retail construction industry with our solid foundation of ethics, competence and professionalism — to both retailers and the industry itself.

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The second implication of the Christological foundation of ethics is that we never identify what God is doing with what we are doing.

But this insistence on Kantian morality, to my mind, shows a thinness regarding the foundation of ethics not only when it moves to an abstraction beyond settled emotive, historical and cultural practices, whether they be for better or worse.

Without a widely accepted foundation of ethics there is no baseline for right or wrong.

Of course the Pope gets his foundation of ethics from God's Word and Tradition (established, proper exegesis etc).

For what it's worth, I put a lot of thought and study into the foundations of ethics, and concluded that secular philosophy offered the best «foundations» that could be had, and religion offered none.

This problem of relativism disquieted the Greek mind, and in the classical age the philosophers began to search for deeper and more rational foundations of ethics.

Tackling some of mankind's most perplexing and enduring questions, Gardner highlights the foundations of ethics and virtue in the modern age.

Not exact matches

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are jointly offering a new course on the ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence, the University of Texas at Austin recently introduced its Ethical Foundations of Computer Science course and Stanford University is developing a computer science ethics course for next year.

He believed that business and personal ethics are inseparable, and that good corporate leadership is the foundation of a healthy society.

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.

First, it is not only the Judeo - Christian ethic that provides a foundation for the protection of human life.

Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic University of America Press, 342 pages, $ 69.95 When the Christian churches incorporated «human rights» as a philosophy and project, did they take on an ethic that corrupts their best....

This book is a valuable contribution to the debate on the Christian foundation to ethics, but I should also outline some of its deficiencies.

In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

McDaniel, a member of the Working Area of the Church and Society Sub-unit of WCC, wrote two papers for WCC consultations, one of which was on the conceptual foundations of a life - centered ethic, and the other on a life - centered understanding of God.

«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.

Like the Gulag, Sartre's Critique is an encyclopedic work that examines the foundations of social order and attempts to think beyond cultural relativism to a new ethic based upon a universal conception of humanity.

It is clear that one foundation of Buber's definition of ethics is his philosophy of dialogue with its emphasis on wholeness, decision, presentness, and uniqueness.

At the outset of this paper I cited a text by Whitehead in which he suggests that it is possible to lay the foundations for aesthetics, and to conquer ethics and theology through, what is in essence, a systematic examination of propositions.

On the contrary, love as a principle of social ethics implies that distribution and organization of power which can offer the foundation for free and constructive human relations.

This anthropology forms the basis of Niebuhr's ethics, view of history, Christology and eschatology, and is the foundation of his rejection of idealism, naturalism and romanticism as inadequate to deal with man's paradoxical nature.

Politics is short - sighted, and any lasting victory for an ethical form of society requires that we nurture and develop theoretical insight into the foundations of human nature and ethics.

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

Any valid exposition of humanism must begin here, for it is on the foundation of this principle and its corollaries — the humanocentric predicament and individuals as coequal centers of freedom / authority — that humanism establishes its methodological policies and builds its ethics and epistemology.

This violent process is permeating the relations among international and political powers, social classes and cultural groups, national and ethic groups, and caste and religious communities, making it making it very hard to bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes among the struggling parties, and eroding the foundations of peaceful life.

We have come here to the heart of the problem of agape as a foundation for a visible social ethic.

This is the solid foundation of a contextual or situational ethic.

From the starting point of the revelation of the nature and will of God that has come to man through Christ, she has dealt first with the biblical foundations of Christian ethics followed by their application to specific contemporary problems, including self and society, marriage, economic life, race, the state, war, peace and others.

Christian ethics establishes the family as primary in all social relations based on the explicit teachings of Jesus and their implications that monogamy is the standard, agape the controlling factor, divorce a compromise, and our relation to God the foundation.

The United States was not founded on Christian ethics and Christ's teachings and as a result the foundations of the country are not only being shaken but are being shattered as the people prefer to follow darkness over light (John 3:19).

It is not accidental that the notion of God which forms the foundation of Hartshorne's ethics is that of the divine receiver of value.

The United States was not founded on Christian ethics and Christ's teachings and as a result the foundations of the country are not only being shaken but are being shattered as the people prefer darkness over light (John 3:19).

This materialist grounding of an environmental ethic on a purely naturalistic and cosmically tragic foundation challenges us to rethink theologically the issue of cosmic purpose in a scientifically compatible and environmentally fruitful way.

Such articulations of Buddhist emptiness, it would seem to me, might serve as more adequate tools in the attempt to articulate a Buddhist foundation for ethics, history, and personhood.

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.

As the great truth of Christian redemption is expressed in the words «God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself,» so comparably the foundation of Christian ethics is epitomized in «Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus.»

Righteousness is not a matter of ethics only, but of Christian faith at its foundations.

This essay, a contribution honoring the thought of our brother and mentor K.C. Abraham, focuses on the meaning of Christian love as a foundation for our explorations on ethics and the struggles for justice in our pluralistic societies.

Just as process - relational thought provides the framework for a new ethics of character and virtue, it also offers the foundation for the usual extension of that ethics in the cultivation of civic virtue.

A core of traditional values of: Respect, Self - Discipline, Dedication, Humility and establishing a hard work ethic and building a solid foundation are the basis of our karate teachings.

Parents who question vaccine safety are simply trying to restore ethics and the ethos of caring for the health and welfare of children — back into the foundations of vaccine protocol.

Judgment is not merely a product or outcome of ethics, nor simply compliance with a rule, it constitutes its foundation.

The statewide probe led to indictments against eight men, and again shook the foundation of political ethics in the state: Among those indicted were Joseph Percoco, who'd been close to both Andrew Cuomo and his father; Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a key economic adviser; and several top officials from LPCiminelli, a Buffalo contractor involved with millions in business as part of the state initiative.

The foundations of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union have jointly filed a lawsuit saying an ethics law passed by the Legislature earlier this year violated the First and Fourth amendments.

ALBANY — Two powerful state investigative agencies announced new inquiries Wednesday into the inner workings of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York amid accusations that the foundation's president violated state ethics laws.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

The foundation chose to honor the Tibetan Buddhist leader for his engagement with scientists and people of other faiths, calling him «an incomparable global voice for universal ethics, nonviolence, and harmony among world religions.»

The five moral ethics of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga are the absolute foundation of yoga practice for people from all walks of life.