Used creative teaching strategies to engage children
in ethical thinking and conflict resolution.
Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization by Charles C. Camosy Cambridge, 284 pages, $ 29.99 Peter Singer has long argued that we need a revolution
in our ethical thinking every bit as radical as the Copernican revolution in cosmology.
In sum, Nussbaum has been engaged for some years now in a fascinating and important project
in ethical thought.
Not exact matches
But I rolled out a pretty strong diatribe about
ethical behavior
in businesses and made it clear I wouldn't invest
in somebody who
thought this way about customers.
Thus every policy an organization puts
in place ought to be
thought of as grounded
in one or more
ethical principles or values.
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.
Moreover, by limiting moral
thinking to these binary options it restricts the ways
in which
ethical judgements can be made.
But it's hard to
think of another leader
in American business who comes closer to being a model of
ethical behavior or who so clearly and consistently stakes out the high ground.
To enable, engage, and educate through our forums of
thought leaders
in the investment community to advance the industry along the highest
ethical standards.
Do you
think it's headed
in the right direction or that's it's detached from these
ethical and maybe even spiritual and existential dilemmas?
I have also seen people who turned away from the Church and / or broke a moral or
ethical standard of the Church and they feel so guilty they
think people
in the Church are judging them when they are not.
Such a method would of course be no guarantee of a single
ethical stance, but to proceed without such
thought concerning the how of Christian ethics would most surely end
in further frustration.
But I
think anyone who acts like there are no
ethical questions to ponder regarding whether or not to kill and consume an animal is
in serious denial.
-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?
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.
When the argument from creation to Creator had begun to lose convincing power, even before the rise of modern evolutionary
thinking, Immanuel Kant proposed that we
think of God
in relation to our
ethical experience rather than cosmology.
(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep
in Isaiah's
thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly
ethical.
Many of them said, «I've never
thought about contraception
in theological terms,» or, «I've tried to avoid
thinking about the
ethical implications of this topic.»
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.
The truncated idea of God that figures
in the analysis, and
in much of the rest of the church's
ethical reasoning, automatically precludes or minimizes the investigation of certain lines of
thinking, and leads to reductionistic treatments of a wide range of issues.
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.»
In an essay titled «Religio -
Ethical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of a Philosophy of Black Liberation» (I.T.C. Journal, I / 1, 1973), I have sought to establish these aspects of the psychology of black religious
thought.
With respect to doctrinal questions (as distinct from
ethical questions) I
think there is far too much emphasis
in most churches on what you are required to believe, which results
in relationship - ending events over inconsequential stuff.
The question that is put to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our
thought and the
ethical consequences of our
thought concerning Jesus the Christ to the ontological matrix
in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one at the center of our confession as the bearer of «substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.
In his earlier address to the bishops, Benedict urged «a clear and united witness» on public questions of great moral moment, recognizing that «it can not be assumed that all Catholic citizens think in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.&raqu
In his earlier address to the bishops, Benedict urged «a clear and united witness» on public questions of great moral moment, recognizing that «it can not be assumed that all Catholic citizens
think in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key ethical questions.&raqu
in harmony with the Church's teaching on today's key
ethical questions.»
The past forty years have brought a recovery of the idea of just war
in Christian
ethical discourse, and this has invigorated a larger engagement with the just war idea
in policy debate,
in the military sphere,
in philosophical
thought, and
in dialogue between moral reflection and international law.
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.
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.»
His
ethical thinking was based on the presence and importance of sympathy
in human relations.
Nussbaum knows this too, and that is why (I
think) she warns that «the emotions have limitations and dangers... and their function
in ethical [and political] reasoning must be carefully circumscribed.»
Thirdly,
in the trend of
ethical thinking we are investigating, it is characteristically assumed that what makes us aware of the self
in the first place is just this double intrusion of death: the cry of the vulnerable other eliciting our preparedness to negate our own life.
This divestment (depouillement) is not only
ethical but speculative; it is when the
thought of the unconditioned has lost all support
in the transcendent objects of metaphysics, when it has renounced all the objectifications that understanding imposes.
They are all addressed to readers already Christian, and they deal with theological and
ethical problems arising out of the attempt to follow the Christian way of life and
thought in a non-Christian world.
Peter
thought he had grasped the
ethical core
in Jesus» teachings, and probably expected Jesus to nod and give his approval to Peter's comment.
2:5) Though we can never hope fully either to imitate Christ
in our living or to
think as he
thought, the more steadfastly we live with his personality, letting his spirit capture us, the more assurance we can have
in our
ethical judgments.
And
in some recent
ethical thinking, this understanding of the highest good has been given a philosophically systematic and rigorous expression.
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.
In some sense, at least, the free, one - way gift, although it supposedly defines the good in modern ethical thought, is impossible and can not occu
In some sense, at least, the free, one - way gift, although it supposedly defines the good
in modern ethical thought, is impossible and can not occu
in modern
ethical thought, is impossible and can not occur.
We have seen that,
in much recent
ethical thought, a self - sacrifice is supposed to acknowledge the other through a response to his or her pain, without reducing that other to our understanding of him or her.
It is not accidental or insignificant that
ethical ways disappear or are invisible as such
in both the total ways of the Orient and
in the most radical expressions of modern Western
thinking and vision.
I
think that a good person who lives an
ethical life and is a credit to society but is not religious will get more
in the world to come than a religious person who is unethical and does bad things.
Peace, good health, and long life to all people who believe
in rational
thought and
ethical living.
The fate of the Earth needed to be given the central role
in all
ethical and practical
thinking.
More sophisticated approaches to contextual - relational ethics and an ethics of response / responsibility, differently expressed by such thinkers as H. Richard Niebuhr and Paul Lehmann, had a major impact on
ethical thought in the «60s.
Therefore, Peter will always stress the responsibility and the
ethical obligation of Christianity, and will always see
in Jesus Christ an example, however much more he sees, while Paul will always
think in terms of inner communion and unity with Jesus Christ.
One can
think of many other ways
in which shame follows from our failure to measure up to familial, societal, academic,
ethical, psychological, and perhaps especially, «religious» standards of performance.
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.»
The dangers of resistance to
ethical thinking come out at another of the eight points
in the manifesto, point 4.
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.