Sentences with phrase «in modern ethics»

In the third chapter we have summarised the explanatory power of theism in modern ethics.

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«While there is no modern precedent for an adult child of the president [in the West Wing], I will voluntarily follow all of the ethics rules placed on government employees,» she said.

The unknowability of the Commandments lies in the epistemological terra incognita of modern and postmodern thought, which denies a human capacity to know anything with certainty in ethics or morality.

every once in a while the bible has to be «re-translated» so it can catch up to modern ethics / sensibilities.

In the name of Christ, modern Christian social ethics points to an eradication of the very poverty that Jesus blessed.

Some recognize that Buddhism, at least in the form in which it has operated in China, Korea, and Japan, has failed to develop the kind of social ethic needed in the modern world.

Let us also note that modern Existenz has resurrected a world - reversing form of ethics — e.g., in Marx, Freud, Kafka, and in Nietzsche himself.

It was not in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God.

34 It is this corpse — the spiritless remains of the Protestant work ethic — that largely explains the modern worker's attempt to overcome the lack of quality and meaning in his work by substituting increased quantities of work time.

In some bible versions, «slaves» has been replaced with «servants» to make it more palatable to our modern (and much improved since the bronze age) sense of ethics.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

In modern history the work ethic was first given a great impetus by the Protestant Reformation, in which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifIn modern history the work ethic was first given a great impetus by the Protestant Reformation, in which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifin which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifin the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday lifin working at one's job in everyday lifin everyday life.

To be sure, Schneewind did this in part for the sake of explaining how modern moral philosophy had developed by turning away from that received ethic.

christians, embarrassed by disgusting and evil commands like that, make excuses for the bible in order to bring it up to date with modern ethics.

Berdyaev is profoundly right in insisting that all ethics needs eschatology.2 One factor in the sickness of the modern world is the loss of confidence in any abiding significance of the transitory goods of life.

Bonhoeffer's theology made several contributions, particularly in the area of ecclesiology and the ecumenical movement, ethics and the role of the Christian in the modern world, spiritual life especially in theological education, and Christology as the center of doctrine.

Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the human spirit.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

Take no heed for the morrow, resist not the evil person, never divorce, give to anyone who asks, don't defend oneself in court — such an ethic strikes moderns as so other - worldly as to be absurd.

Some scholars argue that because the churches were caught up in eschatological expectation, very little of their discussion about social ethics is relevant to modern issues.

In modern parlance this is to link ecology and ethics.4

Modern ethics has - sought to rise above the mundane level of everyday discourse in the pursuit of the universal and the objective, the great overarching principles whereby ethical decisions can be made.

Niebuhr had a tremendous impact on the fields of Christian social ethics and modern theology, and many of us who labor in these fields are grateful for it.

Midgley, a retired philosophy professor from Newcastle, has published many provocative and insightful books in the past 15 years, combating various streams of uncritically accepted suppositions in science, ethics, philosophy and modern culture as well.

If we do not wish to be swept away with modernity's orientation essentialists, then we need to remind the world that our sexual ethics was never really at home in the modern framework anyway, and thus that our forsaking the framework need not lead to postmodern nihilistic libertinism.

Max Weber was wrong about many things, and he may even have been wrong about the strategic place he gave to the «Protestant ethic» in the development of modern capitalism.

Initially we need to discover in our tradition and from an understanding of modern biology some fundamental principles on which to build such an ethic.

Third, in the areas of politics and ethics, modern culture oscillated between individualism and collectivism (between John Locke and Karl Marx).

For a «Supreme Court justice to express himself so freely on religious matters is unequaled in the modern era,» observed Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University Law School, one of many alarmed respondents cited by Chandler.

In modern thought and parlance, ethics and religion are separable; in Hebrew thought and parlance they were inseparable and even indistinguishablIn modern thought and parlance, ethics and religion are separable; in Hebrew thought and parlance they were inseparable and even indistinguishablin Hebrew thought and parlance they were inseparable and even indistinguishable.

The creator of light and darkness, of the good and of the evil instinct, of health and sickness, confronts modern man in the unity of his numinous ambivalence with an unfathomable power, in comparison with which the orientation of the old ethic is clearly exposed as an excessively self - assured and infantile standpoint.

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.

The Vatican II document on the «Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern coModern World» has been of crucial significance in the ecumenical approach of a positive character to the redefinition of the forces and values of secular culture within the context of Christian faith and ethics, themselves renewed in the modern comodern context.

American Catholicism, for example, may have developed a superior capacity for corporate success — both in business and in other large - scale organizations — by adapting the church's premodern and patriarchal ethic of solidarity to the disciplines of modern industrialization; but the Catholicism so created is hardly the same as that which the immigrants left behind, along with much of the rest of Europe's agrarian past.

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

In ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferenceIn ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferencein nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferences.

When addressing the average secular British citizen, we simply can not make that assumption, because the modern anti-life ethic has been forged in a culturethat is increasingly materialistic and relativistic at its core.

The evangelical way has given rise to the broad stream of the modern protestant ethic in all its forms — conservative, liberal and radical, idealistic and pragmatic, individualistic and collectivistic.

We have focussed on ethics in construction which is an environment vulnerable to modern slavery and the abuse of migrant workers, poor payment practices and money laundering; so it is particularly pleasing that the work of the CIOB Academy has been recognised at these awards.»

The poll found a middling reviews for the ethics agreement struck in Albany, nor were they in agreement with Cuomo's claim the session was «the probably the most successful in modern history, the poll found.

Considering themselves modern Robin Hood's, the thieves in this movie never question the ethics of their trade.

A documentary about the ethics of using animals for food, clothing, entertainment and biomedical research in the modern world.

Rightful winner of the official competition prize at the Sydney Film Festival and the Golden Bear award at Venice, A Separation was a fascinating exploration of morality, ethics, class and religion in modern day Iran.

Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective (J625 / 06) A simple spreadsheet which could be used by students and teachers either as a revision aid for assessment points or to track understanding throughout the course as each section is completed.

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

Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective (J625 / 06) A simple spreadsheet which could be used by students and...

Dewi Sri Luxury Villa features the modern and mode ethic Balinese architectures with minimalist design to meet the expectation of luxurious living in the paradise island.

An internationally renowned visual artist who has been showing in major museums of modern and contemporary art, and a distinguished thinker, Bracha L. Ettinger is also one of the world's leading theorists in the realm of art and philosophy of aesthetics, ethics, sexual difference and French psychoanalysis and feminism, whose writings have influenced film and literary thinking, queer studies, contemporary aesthetics and ethics, and art history.

Stone worked with Italian artisans, and suggests that «combining modern thinking with a traditional, artisan ethic, results in works that are impressive in their bold forms, yet are so refined they almost glow with vitality».