Sentences with phrase «not ethicists»

Football factories, Baker notes, are «run by business people, not ethicists.»

I'm not an ethicist, or a philosopher, or an expert in any particular field.

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In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

In fact, as John Fletcher, ethicist at the University of Virginia, has said, «You don't have to be religious to realize that there ought to be a debate about....

He's not saying — and no Christian ethicist I know of would say — that lusting is morally the same as adultery, or similarly that anger is the moral equivalent of murder (see Matt.

As the experience grew in me, I found my commitments stronger than ever and, at the same time, I knew that I could not, in the words of womanist ethicist Katie Cannon, «keep on keepin» on.»

Political ethicist Michael Ignatieff argues: «If we want human rights to be anchored in the world, we can not want their enforcement to depend on international institutions and NGOs.

Ethicists have always worried about «borderline situations,» in which clear rules do not yield clear direction, or about the «perplexed conscience,» which leaves a person bewildered in the midst of difficult decisions.

I did not become an ethicist because my primary interest was social change or particular moral «issues.»

Ethicists must look not only at the Israelite context but also at the moral values of the surrounding culture or cultures on any given moral point, for often the biblical position is taken in direct response to some contrary moral behavior.

Ethicists today consider their area not just the normative task of what people ought to do and why but also the analytic and descriptive enterprise of how and why people in fact do act.

They reason that they need them because everyone else has them or because in an accident the other car will suffer more (a position that would probably not pass the test with many Christian ethicists).

But he simultaneously lived the life of theologian, ethicist and church person, demonstrating that politics uninformed by the judgments of faith, and faith aloof from the human struggle, are twin seductions to which we must not succumb.

This fact was not lost on Julian Savulescu, the Oxford ethicist and student of Peter Singer, who asked: If Charlie's life is not worth living, why shouldn't we directly kill him?

But the influence of the cultural conditioning by this system is such that most universities and educational systems and even international lawyers, ethicists and moral theologians do not consider this aspect of the world injustice.

In this light, it is not the case that we would abandon a moral, religious, aesthetic or political life for a life of doing logic, but rather, we would not leave the moral life to the ethicists, the religious life to the theologians and customary religious practices, and the political life to the politicians and political scientists, just as we surely would not leave propositions in the hands of the logicians.4

This is purely in the Greek spirit — yet not Socratic, for Socrates was too much of an ethicist for that.

But on the other hand, as a matter of course, Socrates is not an essentially religious ethicist, still less a dogmatic one, as the Christian ethicist is.

Jewish ethicists speak of the principle of bal tashchit, which means «do not destroy.»

In September 2002, when a hundred scholars and ethicists signed a petition that read, «As Christian ethicists, we share a common moral presumption against a preemptive war on Iraq by the United States,» Elshtain was not numbered among the signatories.

Yet physicians and ethicists agree that donating must always be a choice, not a requirement.

Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).

I was confronted by a prominent ethicist the other day who wasted no time in asking, «Is the Old Testament Christian scripture or not?»

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

Besides, theologians and ethicists have to recognize that most of us do not naturally have the perspective of the poor.

Unlike many ecological ethicists and post-Christian feminists, she insists that humans did not originally live lightly on the earth in harmonious, paradisiacal groups.

Third, the ethicists I consulted and quoted in the article are national experts on the issue» it's not as if there is some key piece of information out there that the article overlooked.

Moreover, I carefully pointed out that ethicists on this issue can basically be divided into two camps: those that view aborted fetuses as cadavers of a medical procedure and think that some good should come from abortions, and those that view aborted fetuses as victims of oppression, sin, and thoughtlessness, and therefore think that these victims should not be further exploited» especially under the guise of a «good cause.»

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

Racism was a problem we left to Christian ethicists; it had not been for us a theological issue.

Furnish made these points in 1972, but this writer is not aware of much that has been done since byprofessional ethicists to make love more central to ethics.

The extreme, high - tech procedures imagined by ordinary people are rarely the subject of debate; it is simple feeding tubes and common antibiotics that are labeled «unnatural» by «ethicists» - in the thought that the life which they sustain is also unnatural and should not be continued.

I don't doubt there are safe and compassionate hospitals out there or even compassionate doctors in hospitals that generally aren't, but when a large portion of women are looking for homebirth because their hospital experiences were the antithesis of compassionate, these ethicists need to be looking at what they are suggesting.

A panel of ethicists convened by the U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Science also staked out that position in February, ruling that human germline engineering might someday be permissible for correcting diseases, but only if there are no alternatives and not for enhancements.

As for the possible use of cloning to produce copies of humans, most ethicists» initial reaction is that such an action would be unconscionable — although in the U.S., unlike in the U.K. and many other nations, it is not explicitly illegal.

«When assessing whether or not to pursue de-extinction, calculating the conservation costs and benefits is not sufficient,» Northeastern University ethicist Ronald Sandler argues in an accompanying commentary.

Ethicists argue that «not a problem now» doesn't mean «never a problem.»

NSF doesn't necessarily know what a university is doing, notes medical ethicist Elizabeth Heitman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, who co-authored a recently published study of how research - intensive universities are implementing the RCR mandate from NSF.

«We learned things that we wish had not occurred,» says Ruth Faden, an ethicist from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who chaired the commission.

«The report rightly identified governance as a critical issue but it does not go far enough in advocating democratic engagement,» says Zahra Meghani, an ethicist at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

The first part of the pattern constitutes a novel perspective on self - control, whereas the second part is «consistent with previous theorizing on why good people behave badly,» notes Ann Tenbrunsel, an ethicist at Mendoza College of Business who was not part of the study.

It concerns not only an increased extinction threat to re-discovered species, but also the collection of specimens from small populations more generally,» said Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist and conservation scholar in ASU's School of Life Sciences.

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

Many ethicists and journal editors hold that authorship should not be accrued by means of proximity, just desserts, or seniority.

The ethicists were particularly concerned about the proposed «high levels of payment» — up to $ 4000 — but deemed this was not an «undue influence» because no one had an obligation to accept the offer.

Researchers, medical ethicists, and data - protection specialists in many countries lobbied the Icelandic government last year not to pass a law giving a genetics company access to the health records of the entire country (Science, 1 January, p. 13).

But many researchers and ethicists believe that the patents should be invalidated, arguing that the company has not actually «invented» anything new and that the patents hobble research and pose ethical concerns.

Despite claims of preclinical success by a leading surgeon, doctors, scientists, and medical ethicists say the science is not ready.

Ethicists have renewed the call for caution in handling gene - editing CRISPR, which has the potential not only to cure congenital and other serious illnesses but also can make permanent changes in human genome that can be heritable by a person's offspring.

There a group of educators and ethicists agreed on a list of values — not virtues — that they felt transcended sectarian, partisan, or class distinctions.