Sentences with phrase «in ethical systems»

While investing in ethical systems and materials may require more costs up front, it can have a massive payoff (in addition to being the ethical choice): According to the study, 73 percent of consumers say they're willing to pay more for a product that promises total transparency.

Thus in the ethical system of Mahayana the «Other» receives a distinctive significance.

Not exact matches

But what's legal isn't always ethical, especially in countries with underdeveloped regulatory systems.

In his latest book, The Third Plate, chef Dan Barber of New York's Blue Hill restaurant argues that diners must look at a new, more ethical way of eating that reflects the actual costs of our agricultural system.

Building ethical, secure, scalable systems that work in the real world is a huge responsibility and I can't wait to share what we're working on.»

Ethical behaviour in organizations: Directed by the formal or informal systems?

This approach violates the first rule of good teaching: Integrate the information into your students» lives and worldviews, including those based in religion or ethical systems, and translate it into something they can connect with and use.

«The economic powers shall continue to justify the current world system, in which speculation and the aim for financial returns... ignore... the effects on the environment and on human dignity... environmental, human and ethical degradation are intimately connected.

Religion has little to do with ethics... for example... is it right for you to allow someone else to accept your just punishment... of course not, we do not allow that in our legal system, because it is not ethical... but your religion is based on that one unethical behavior.

And to live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods, such as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical system supports.

Legal ethicists Thomas and Mary Shaffer, however, have convincingly demonstrated that two quite different ethical systems were operating side - by - side in the profession: an «old WASP» or «gentlemen's» ethic among small - town and establishment lawyers, and an «old world» ethic among lawyers from communities formed by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Eastern Europe.

-LCB- alert: Smith would probably not have done well in the Twitter world -RCB- One can surmise that the form of capitalism that Americans subscribed to in Adam Smith capitalism was based on an ethical system influenced by Christianity.My very, very rudimentary understanding of Sharia laws concerning finance suggest to me that it is more closely related to Adam Smith capitalism than to predatory capitalism.What do you think?

They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

As Roof points out, their religion affirms: (a) the centrality of ethical principles in their meaning systems; (b) a parsimony of beliefs, few attributions of numinosity; (c) breadth of perspective; (d) piety defined as a personal search for meaning; and (e) license to doubt.

Still, if one brackets the nonetheless important question as to where, if anywhere, Heidegger's substitute divinity resides in the registers of historical religion, there remains the perhaps more urgent query about the relation of his system to those ethical decisions that his - and our - time demands.

Exorcizing the concept «God» from the system leaves me in a stance very similar to that of Paul van Buren, who holds that the essence of Christianity is an ethical message about how to live a life and that «God» talk is a dated, misleading, unhelpful, obscure way of saying what Christianity wants to say about what it is to be a man and to live a moral life.

We present Christianity en masse, a great system with all our beliefs, our institutions, our sacramental customs, our ethical ideals in one solidified whole.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Although many concur in categorizing any ethical system based on process metaphysics as teleological or consequentialist, recent writings have gone beyond this, attempting to demonstrate the affinity between process ethics...

But if by «capitalism» is meant a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.

In the face of the present crisis it seems there are two possible paths to take in our approach to values: either to abandon discourse on values in favor of more traditional ethical language, or to assert the objective foundation of values and hence a system by which they can be compared, evaluated, and judgeIn the face of the present crisis it seems there are two possible paths to take in our approach to values: either to abandon discourse on values in favor of more traditional ethical language, or to assert the objective foundation of values and hence a system by which they can be compared, evaluated, and judgein our approach to values: either to abandon discourse on values in favor of more traditional ethical language, or to assert the objective foundation of values and hence a system by which they can be compared, evaluated, and judgein favor of more traditional ethical language, or to assert the objective foundation of values and hence a system by which they can be compared, evaluated, and judged.

Same commentators, however, feel that this should not be the main Christian motive in science because it would «reduce Christianity to an ethical system.»

Maritain held that action in the world — whether ethical action among individuals or political action among systems, institutions, and groups — is always action among existents, among real sinners and saints and all those in between, not among purely «rational agents.»

I am not suggesting that Jesus had any original religious, or ethical «system»; he almost certainly did not, and in any case we are not in position to recover it.

Christians sometimes fail to distinguish the new, constructed, allegedly «holistic» ethical system from God's holistic and eternal design of salvation, not realising that the two logics lead in different directions.

The deeper point of the critics of process thought is that subsuming other creatures into the ethical system worked out in modernity to guide relations among people does not change us at the needed level.

Within the past decade, there have been several attempts to categorize ethical systems arising from process metaphysics in their relation to ethical theory in general.

Although many concur in categorizing any ethical system based on process metaphysics as teleological or consequentialist, recent writings have gone beyond this, attempting to demonstrate the affinity between process ethics and utilitarianism.

As a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reap.

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

Metz shows in this way how Christian practice gains its distinctive character, It is not dependent on determining what is most appropriate from a general ethical system.

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.

Science doesn't «conclude» anything in the moral realm, for that we still need an ethical system, whether religious or not.

When too little heed is given to what is revealed of God through the life and ministry of Jesus, there is danger of constructing an ethical system out of something else, whether the «road to happiness» or the demands of justice in the contemporary world.

Antonio Gramsci criticized Croce's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century for beginning in 1815 and his History of Italy for beginning in 1871, that is, just after but not including the French Revolution in the one book or the Risorgimento in the other.3 He thus excluded «the moment of struggle; the moment in which the conflicting forces are formed, are assembled and take up their positions; the moment in which one ethical - political system dissolves and another is formed by fire and steel; the moment in which one system of social relations disintegrates and falls and another arises and asserts itself.

Hierarchy in Japan as elsewhere is linked to an ethical system and a set of values.

The purpose of courses in theology and ethics, then, would not be to explore ethical «positions» or «systems» of theological thought as such but rather to «help students to become practical Christian thinkers» (106).

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

A religious system which provides significant ethical norms (that is, having to do with the maximizing of personality values) gives growing individuals guidelines in developing their own value systems.

Food sovereignty asserts the right of peoples to nourishing and culturally appropriate food produced and distributed in ecologically sound and ethical ways and their right to collectively determine their own food and agriculture systems.

Ethical and environmental improvements to our food system are not only vital to consumer demand, driven primarily by a millennial interest in cleaner food, but also to shareholders.

In addition to the SQF code, SQFI standards have expanded to include an ethical sourcing code and management system, as well as a joint program with the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) that promotes safe animal feed and food production.

Ensuring everyone has access to nutritious and culturally - appropriate food produced in ethical and ecologically sound ways, and their right to democratically determine their own food and agriculture systems.

As consumers become aware of the ethical issues relating to all egg laying systems, more and more are choosing egg replacement products which are readily available in supermarkets.

Food sovereignty asserts the right of peoples to nourishing and culturally - appropriate food produced in ethical and ecologically - sound ways, and their right to collectively determine their own food and agriculture systems.

And secondly, if doctors are corrupted by making money, as they are in my experience, and doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.»

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

Over the past four years we were extraordinarily aggressive on ethical reform and there is no doubt our current system is the most restrictive and most regulated in our history.

Their downfall inspired much talk about how this could and should be the year for meaningful ethical change in Albany, after years of lesser tweaks to a system still riddled with loopholes.

But the problem isn't just individuals; it's the system — the same system that has seen 32 state legislators indicted or removed from office for criminal or ethical issues in the same 15 - year period.