Sentences with phrase «in questions of ethics»

This means that it is increasingly implicated in questions of ethics.

In all questions of ethics not covered by this code members will act in the best interest of the breed at all times.

Vico's fantasia abhors partial vision, and the great mathematician and astronomer Henri Poincare is on his side when he observes in his Last Essays that in questions of ethics science alone can not suffice because it «can see only one part of man, or, if you prefer, it sees everything but it sees everything from the same angle.»

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Below are more statements he has made so far in the chat, in response to questions selected from the comments section of the Guardian website and Twitter, about the extent of U.S. government access to civilian information, the role of Google and Facebook, and his ethics:

Anyone with a broad interest in business ethics is almost inevitably going to run into questions of legal ethics.

While one standardized code of ethics (such as the Hippocratic Oath in the medical profession) could be a solution for the software industry, it is also important to teach delivery teams how to ask the right questions when considering the ramifications for emerging innovations.

Dunn learned this the hard way in early 2010, when he questioned the work ethic of his staff during a company - wide presentation.

Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

How you should behave yourself in the course of that job, in pursuit of those goals, is a question of ethics.

For example, in addressing the question of work ethic, one might envision the following conversation:

Their book explores questions of ethics and professionalism in the business world, and is aimed not just at business students but at anybody interested in a conversation on the subject.

Our answer to that question about our basic identity impacts everything in our lives: our self - image, our health, our spirituality, our ethics, our roles and relationships, our careers, and our view of the past, the present and the future.

He «was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code of ethics to observe for the salvation of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.

It is worth noting that Judge Miner's inability to parse that distinction was not shared by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a twenty - four member commission appointed by Governor Cuomo in 1985 to advise on questions of biomedical ethics.

Professor Wilken has answered another, lesser question of the role of reason (and of tradition) in apologetics, ethics, and polity.

Barnett explores these questions in an exquisitely, even painfully, fair - minded and balanced manner, concentrating on the bureaucratized ethic of the UN and employing Hannah Arendt's controversial understanding of «the banality of evil.»

3) Knowledge of the actual history of the traditional religions 4) Failure of the faith to which they were born and in which they were raised to answer the fundamental questions regarding morality and ethics to the satisfaction of the seeker.

The question is not as easy as it appears, but it is my contention that, mutatis mutandis, the ethic of reverence for life is not dependent upon a belief in God.

Here lies the basis in Whitehead's thought for the relation of philosophical theology to questions of values and ethics — and, therefore, of religion to politics.

During last year's Albert Schweitzer Centennial Symposium at UNESCO in Paris, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm raised a pertinent question: «Is Schweitzer's religious ethic of reverence for life dependent upon a belief in God?»

Hence there arises the question whether the religious ethic of love is possible without the belief in an ethical God and World Sovereign, or knowledge of this God, which can be replaced by a belief in Him.

to ponder on the question of how much ethics and religion can be comprised in a Weltanschauung which dares to be inconclusive» (Albert Schweitzer, by Oskar Kraus [Adams & Charles Black, Ltd., 1944], p. 43).

The doing of ethics involves the use of certain presuppositions and procedures for reflecting on moral and social questions in some sort of orderly fashion.

In particular, questions about the rights of animals have made their way into texts in philosophical ethicIn particular, questions about the rights of animals have made their way into texts in philosophical ethicin philosophical ethics.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

On the basis of my own work in descriptive biblical ethics I can tentatively suggest a different avenue for this normative question than has been taken so far.

The question of how biblical ethics can or should be used in facing today's moral problems is a second stage which Christian and Jewish ethicists address.

As my account of the controversy indicates, the primary issue in developing a Catholic sexual ethic today is not in deciding the ethical questions themselves but in confronting the ecclesiological question of dissent.

Nevertheless, the question remains of why a critical observer such as Weber was able, from his early interest in the Puritan ethic, to sustain the conviction that one could make reliable statements about subjective meanings.

Though some pro-life activists praised these efforts to expose a practice that critics of Planned Parenthood — and abortion in general — find immoral, the investigation itself raised many questions about the ethics of the so - called «sting.»

The fact that he can grant this yet not give such possibility a greater place in his narrative suggests that, with respect to the question of the relation between politics and ethics at least, Taylor is not at all a modem, however much he may believe that the modem identity brings with it some genuine goods.

PAK: Earlier I was speaking about the need to question and overturn the secularist ideology that finds its perfect expression in the axiomatic dogma of the separation of Church and State — the sort of critique Alasdair MacIntyre has pursued in the field of ethics for a long time now, but that the rest of the Church has been surprisingly slow to pick up on.

Even though some questions can indeed, and perhaps should, be answered with a clear yes or no, in the field of ethics one comes across gray areas where clear - cut answers are less than helpful.

Although dealing also with questions such as economics and foreign policy, the addresses focus on the «consistent ethic of life» theme that he first set forth in 1983.

To the two questions that follow the first one I would say that, yes, under this dispensation, in this act of the divine drama of redemption, innocence until proven guilty is an important value, but it should not be construed as the absolute, universally valid ethic to be used as a lens for looking at specific, singular events in the biblically recorded past.

Eschatology and ethics meet in this basic issue, for it involves not only the scope of God's love and favor and of our responsibility but the question of eternal destiny.

Like the ethics of authenticity, the vocabulary of vocation also foregrounds the question of our deepest identities, forged finally in communion with others.

For example, the field education program, the study of current liberation theologies, and the struggle to keep the school's budget in balance all pose questions of Christian faith and ethics in their relation to urban - institutional structures.

In Pilgrim, she detaches herself from the ordinary, conventional human world, plunging into nature to wrestle with the question of nature's ethics.

Leibowitz's key claim, Warren Harvey indicates, is that «in Judaism, questions of ethics, politics, science, or history have no value whatsoever except insofar as they might be means to the service of God in accordance with the Torah and the commandments, that is, in accordance with the Halakhah.»

Instead of approaching ethical questions in terms of specifiable rules or in terms of the consequences of one's actions, virtue ethics asks which virtues one ought to possess.

In 1999, Webb would publish a theological ethics on the same question in The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of ExcesIn 1999, Webb would publish a theological ethics on the same question in The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of Excesin The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of Excess.

Ricoeur wants to give this «transcendental inquiry into the imagination of hope» an autonomy that it does not have in Kant, just as he wishes to move ethics, the question of the will, to center stage as the realm of realization of our relationship to being.

But Hartshorne shows its advantages in a range of questions from metaphysics on the one side to ethics on the other.

Unless there really is moral obligation, it will not be a form of natural law, and unless the immediate ground for that obligation is the metaphysical structure that makes a being human, the theory in question will not amount to natural law but an ethics of some other sort, whether divine command, Kantian deontology, utilitarianism, or something else.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

When we pose the question in these terms, we find that among all those who have written on the subject of ethics, there seems to be agreement that in some sense men ought to be rational or reasonable.

The question is really how courses in Church history, missions and practical theology on the one hand, in systematic theology, Christian ethics and philosophy of religion on the other, are being taught.

Over lunch one of the ladies in my workshop, Anna brought up the question of ethics of food styling.

From comments on the Barnardos Ireland Facebook page it is evident there are people who will not be taking part in the event this year as it has become an advertising vehicle for the Cow & Gate brand, which raises the question, did the board conduct due diligence on the ethics of this sponsorship deal and the reputational harm it will suffer?»