Sentences with phrase «moral responsibility»

For him, freedom is one of the fundamental metaphysical categories, and its character is such as to warrant man s sense of moral responsibility.

And it means government officers meeting their statutory obligations, meeting their duty of care and taking moral responsibility in the performance of their duties as public officials.

Atheists are great people who take moral responsibility for their actions and are careful how they treat others.

To respond well to ethical challenges requires that the CEO be comfortable talking about ethics and about moral responsibilities.

That is, in my opinion, a convenient escape from moral responsibility and from the discomfort of facing and making moral decisions.

Taken together, they risk placing moral responsibility onto sophisticated tools rather than on the shoulders of human decision makers.

We must accept the reality of Jewish power and we must accept moral responsibility for the uses of power.

Much of the writing of the group of new Canadian legal ethics scholars over the past decade has contained arguments about lawyer's individual and collective moral responsibilities.

Neither is it to be taken as discourse upon moral responsibility.

No one should break the rules; freedom imposes high moral responsibilities.

What about a special moral responsibility towards wildlife we live in close proximity to, whose environments we have already changed?

He could have begun with the undeniable experience of free moral responsibility, taking reason not as premise but as inference.

We welcome families of all faiths who are looking for a school that teaches moral responsibility and respect for others.

And climate scientists bear a particular moral responsibility because «they know, more than anybody else, the dangers that we face,» she said.

A nation must be subject to the same divine laws of social justice and moral responsibility in relation to its own citizens and to other nations as is the individual person.

For that, we need a sense of purpose, a sense of moral responsibility.

The breeder should be prepared to assume the financial and moral responsibilities for housing, maintenance, nutrition, medical and social needs according to established species parameters.

We have gotten away from that, and sadly away from moral responsibility!

We expect and promote moral responsibility and strive to develop strength of character within a respectful school community.

Do we have a special moral responsibility to cats?

I. Values as Ideas In developing a Whiteheadian theory of moral responsibility as derived from his complex metaphysics and his particular notion of the self (its identity, function etc.), it is necessary first to discuss the meaning of value in that metaphysics.

Both judgment and redemption on God's part rest the foundation of the covenant idea; likewise the demand for obedience and hence for unremitting moral responsibility on man's side.

It is also persuasive in the sense that it is autonomously avoidable with moral responsibility in contrast to that conceptual innovation which is not autonomously avoidable.

Kaplan asserts that humanity would not have come into being were it not for the divine grace that reveals itself in human moral responsibility despite all assumed and actual human depravity (GJM 494).

What moral responsibility do people have to follow a leader they see as ungodly?

This challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.

Mr. Liben has correctly identified a serious challenge to human welfare, a tendency to regard individuals as puppets of «society,» and therefore without moral responsibility for their conduct.

Even if the law of karma does not have the iron grip sometimes assumed by outsiders, it does emphasize moral responsibility and that every action has its effect.

... What I'm hearing is that I have some nebulous, undefined but extremely important moral responsibility to take away custom from the entity that treats me and every other author on Earth better than any author has ever been treated by a publisher or retailer in, well, the history of Mankind, and give it to you.

Complex as life is, to evade Christian decision on the basis of inadequate direction from Jesus is to evade moral responsibility on other grounds.

Conscious as he is of his own moral responsibility, he can not conceive how baptism in water can convey a mysterious something which is henceforth the agent of all his decisions and actions.

He does not, of course, intend this consequence, but the fact that his love does not stretch far enough to give him a sense of moral responsibility makes him responsible.

And in what way can the religious leaders of our time help to build this bridge from privatized piety to public moral responsibility?

3) What should be respected and understood about a parents» refusal to comply with the rules, regulations, and laws set down for them by their elected representatives, who have not represented their views, is that they feel a strong moral responsibility to do what is right for their children.

Nevertheless, even the most ardent supporter of rewilding should admit that it is human beings who bear direct moral responsibility for the ongoing loss of biodiversity in our world.

God has also given man freedom of choice in which moral responsibility is centered.

Specifically, I worry that the language being used at the highest levels of this debate promotes a conception of autonomous weapons that conflates potential abuses of the technology with features of the technology itself and possesses the danger of absolving programmers and military implementers of moral responsibility where such responsibility is needed most.

For example, while two individuals may be legally responsible for the same offence, one who assists or merely encourages (the proverbial «aider or abettor») bears less moral responsibility than the offender who physically committed the crime.Reckless actions are less morally blameworthy than planned, deliberate ones and are therefore somewhat less deserving of criminal sanction.

When leaders have these powers, it makes sense not just for them to have formal responsibility, but for them to be seen as having a level of control that implies sufficient causal responsibility to underpin ultimate moral responsibility.

All of the same kinds of questions apply to how the main news feed works, and so far there hasn't been much openness about that at all, nor any real admission that the company has any ethical or moral responsibility related to how it shapes the world - view of its billion - plus users.

The youth appear uninterested in carrying any longer the burden of national moral responsibility for the evils of the Third Reich, and the hard - working people of Europe are disenchanted with the concept of toiling to keep idle Greeks and Portuguese at the beach on their state benefits that began when they retired prematurely from unproductive state jobs.