Sentences with phrase «more ethical person»

That is, we may believe that the best possible person is a soft - hearted nun who cares for orphaned pigeons, but in Singer's eyes, the rather disagreeable cur who cheats at checkers, ignores his children, and is rude to waitresses may be the more ethical person if by giving away lots of money he saves lives.

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This person is typically known as an ethical officer or, in more intimidating terminology, a compliance officer.
A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.
According to University of North Carolina researchers, sleep deprived people are more susceptible to social influences, like a boss who wants you to step over ethical lines.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world with more than three million members and supporters.
As with most changes it takes a while for people to approve of a new norm and while it may make things difficult / uncomfortable for soldiers in the near term it will create a better, more ethical government organization in the long run.
By contrast, Cicero retorts that the Roman people inhabit a different, more comfortable ethical world where duties are understood in relation to a realistic assessment of occasions and situations.
Some people see simply no ethical problem at all with destroying embryos for research, and for them the study of embryos for its own sake is certainly worth public support (we support all kinds of basic research after all, rightfully so, and this basic research could be of more value than most).
The agreement between black power and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the pPeople» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the pPeople; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the peoplepeople.
I don't think the reason most people leave churches has anything to do with not believing they can become more holy or with wanting to live by different ethical standards.
It is even more difficult to determine what import a person's being in various stages of the dying process should have for ethical decisions about treatment.
For this and related reasons a certain Catholic preference has emerged for responding in a manner intellectually more straightforward and culturally more urgent, that is, for dialogue concerning the dignity of the human person and its ethical implications.
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.
Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.
Me to We is an ethical resource focused on helping people think less about themselves and more about the collective good.
Maybe atheists are more monolithic than both, but I doubt it, since I have a friend who is atheist, and she is ethical, kind, not offensively profane, and civil to people who disagree with her, unlike some of the atheist posters on this thread.
If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.
They did, however, make an incalculable contribution to man's ethical life by their ever deepening recognition of inherent dignity in persons and their ever more sensitive demand for humaneness toward persons.
«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.
As researchers have found, we tend to evaluate ourselves as more ethical and less biased than other people.
More and more people are questioning the ethical, health and evironmental impact of animal products and are either cutting them out or cutting down on their consumptMore and more people are questioning the ethical, health and evironmental impact of animal products and are either cutting them out or cutting down on their consumptmore people are questioning the ethical, health and evironmental impact of animal products and are either cutting them out or cutting down on their consumption.
We just knew she would be the perfect person to share with us a more ethical side of Christmas, so we asked Hannah to choose her favourite pieces made by Folksy designers and makers, and create a pin board.Her beautiful board is a mix of natural festive decorations, ethical finds and brilliant Folksy gifts, we know you will love it as much as we do...
There were more than 1,600 comments, prompting a follow - up story in the Times — «We choose each other over and over because we want to: Readers share their open - marriage stories» — in which numerous people speak of their experiences of engaging in ethical non-monogamy.
There were more than 1,600 comments, prompting a follow - up story in the Times — «We choose each other over and over because we want to: Readers share their open - marriage stories» — in which numerous people speak of their experiences of engaging in ethical nonmonogamy.
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Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Read The Times report: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3807588.ece Read the CofE's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/07/secretary-of-state-for-education-calls-for-continuing-partnership-with-cofe.aspx Listen to Michael Gove's comments at the event: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/data/files/resources/5093/130703-Lambeth-Education-seminar.mp3 Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Respond to the national curriculum review: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/what-you-can-do-to-help/respond-to-the-national-curriculum-review/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on PSHE and Sex and Relationships Education: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/school-curriculum/pshe-and-sex-and-relationships-education/ The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: «Mario Cuomo inspired millions of people around the country with his vision for a more compassionate and just society, and during difficult times for our city and state, he brought principled and ethical leadership to Albany.
I never thought the dems senate leadership could actually become more incompetent but Krueger pushed out for Stewart Cousins, at least Krueger was one of the few ethical if not blindly liberal people left in the conference.
The BHA has put the data in a spreadsheet for convenience - attached to this email and online at http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/List-of-proposed-Free-Schools.xlsx Read the previous BHA press release, «Landmark Freedom of Information victory for BHA vs Department for Education», 15 January 2013: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/01/15/landmark-freedom-of-information-victory-for-bha-vs-department-for-education/ Read the Information Tribunal's decision: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/20130115-Decision-EA20120136-0166-0167.pdf Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on religious education: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/religious-education The British Humanist Association (BHA) is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.
«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»
Knowing how — and especially when — to intervene for such young people is a fast - shifting frontier of medicine — one with even more ethical and cultural minefields than are faced by transgender adults.
Figuring that out will likely require more preclinical research in people — a daunting prospect that raises additional ethical dilemmas, Krakauer says.
The United Kingdom is «much more permissive,» agrees Pollard, but he says the trials go through extensive ethical reviews, and the risk of transmission is «near zero» if people have good hygiene.
Jo Marchant describes people who have experienced awe as being more ethical, more generous and feeling more connected (29 July,...
With the support of Joseph Fins, chief of the department of medical ethics at Weill Cornell, who articulated the ethical arguments for why these patients must be studied and treated, they used PET to look at four more people in vegetative states.
But they also present larger ethical problems that some people are more comfortable dismissing when it comes to our rodent pals.
Over the next six months, she would collect more than 40 hours of footage on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with a camera hidden under her lab coat.
When they asked people to role - play as deceivers and deceivees, the researchers discovered that participants felt better about paltering rather than lying by commission; they thought their actions were more ethical because they were technically telling the truth.
While there might be different motivations for people embracing a more plant based diet; health, environment or ethical the path and end result (avoiding animal products) are the same.
For some people, following more of a vegetarian - style diet can maintain ethical standards while providing more complete nutrition.
The key is, the more that people request items from Made in the USA brands and other ethical / fair trade brands, the more Stitch Fix will work to keep those brands in stock and in their inventory!
It seems like now, more than ever, people are meticulously reading the ingredient labels on the foods they eat and caring more about the ethical and environmental impact of the clothes they wear.
Yes, most ethical brands are more expensive than your run - of - the - mill fast fashion clothing store... that's because they're made with care and the people who make and produce the items are paid fairly.
Ethical fashion is definitely something I want to learn more about — I've heard fantastic things about the people tree.
Tolly Dolly Posh), a 17 - year - old on a mission to make the fashion industry more ethical and sustainable whilst also inspiring people to embrace their true selves.
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