Sentences with phrase «from ethical judgment»

«I kept thinking of the Goya painting because it seemed detached from ethical judgment.

Not exact matches

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the moral judgment of an action from the kind of person who performs it.

It was the ethical judgments of Charlie's physicians that kept Charlie from getting treatment when there was a reasonable chance it could benefit him.

Making judgments and taking actions can be pretty tricky, and no doubt even unpleasant from that context, but like Shawn noted in his «invasion» analogy, they may be entirely necessary (maybe that's a tool to employ in unpacking ethical / cultural aspects of Biblical history).

The moral importance of Christianity follows from its truth claims; otherwise its ethical judgments have no power.

The possible advent of autonomous drones operated by «ethical governors», however, would entail such a separation of action from judgment.

What gives legal or ethical actions theirsignificance is never merely their accordance with a rule, but the fact they follow from an agent's conscious judgment to do so.

It has been many years since New York State had a governor with the vision, judgment and authority that it needs now to turn Albany's budget from obesity, to resist powerful interests, to plot a course out of an ethical netherworld in which state the government has become a national embarrassment.

«Each blog post: (a) identifies cases that address technology mishaps (either through negligence, ethical lapses in judgment, too much reliance on outside counsel and vendors, or fraud); (b) exposes the specific conduct that caused a problem; (c) explains how and why the conduct was improper; and (d) offers suggestions on how to learn from these mistakes and prevent similar ones from reoccurring.»