Sentences with phrase «in ethical thought»

In sum, Nussbaum has been engaged for some years now in a fascinating and important project in ethical thought.

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.

Used creative teaching strategies to engage children in ethical thinking and conflict resolution.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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 occuIn some sense, at least, the free, one - way gift, although it supposedly defines the good in modern ethical thought, is impossible and can not occuin 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.