Sentences with phrase «of ethical life»

From them, Jews and Christians have learned to emphasize the priority of ethical life in quite worldly, or secular, ways.

In this respect Jesus frankly cherished self - regarding motives as part of the ethical life.

Schweitzer shows how the Franciscan spirit in its very directness of attack on the problem of ethics finds perplexities which force a reappraisal of the foundations of ethical life.

Thus one may conclude that to Whitehead freedom is not so much a right as it is a duty and an obligation; these derive from the religious level and apply to the level of ethical life.

The alternative response of cynicism regarding the possibility of any sort of ethical life whatsoever, once the absolutist's naive (and opportunistic) optimism is rejected, is similarly mistaken and not acceptable.

Empathy thus becomes the foundation of an ethical life.

is to be replaced by the God of what might be called in English «ethical solidarity,» «social coherence,» «cohesive social order,» «the order of ethical life,» or, in Tillich's vocabulary, «theonomy,» but which is really much better expressed by Sittlichkeit in Hegel's German or by koinônia in New Testament Greek.

From Abraham to Jesus to Kant, adhering to certain rules, whether from religious obligation or abstract duty, has been the core of the ethical life.

Any leader should imbibe these basic tenets which Islam and other religions promote as the bedrocks of ethical living in society.

Not exact matches

Sheila Colclasure, who heads data ethics for Acxiom, says we no longer live in an era of privacy but one of «ethical data use.»

Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.

The difference between the two is that the way of the ethical merchant can increase the wealth and well - being of people so that they can have a better life and take time for a spiritual purpose and an aesthetic life.»

Thiel has supported the work of philosopher Nick Bostrom, who argues for weighing the value of the trillions of lives that will exist in the future in today's ethical calculations.

I came away from this recent conversation with a deeper understanding of the ethical risks posed by AI, insights into behavioral data science, and cautious optimism that we can use these tools and technology to create the financial world we want to live in.

Pruitt is the subject of no fewer than 10 ethical investigations, as reports about his extravagant spending, taxpayer - funded flights, and dicey living situation have come to light.

While «worshipping» Munger may be a stretch, what he does provide, for me at least, is a set of «inviolable ethical principles» that help me to navigate the trenches of daily life with more clarity.

You only need to read the headlines to see the ethical and moral breaches in all walks of life (and that goes for scientists who who fudge figures as well as business people who fudge balance sheets).

Take a small hint from a Catholic - everyone of you who isn't Catholic IS a heretic - however, all who lead a good, moral, ethical life and show compassion, courage, and conviction in working for the best interest of their families, neighbors, and mankind CAN achieve salvation.

His title Either / Or is telling, for (as MacIntyre observes) the book's doctrine «is plainly to the effect that the principles which depict the ethical way of life are to be adopted for no reason.»

This approach violates the first rule of good teaching: Integrate the information into your students» lives and worldviews, including those based in religion or ethical systems, and translate it into something they can connect with and use.

Without those mile markers in one's life, it is easy to get lost in a forest of moral relativism and situational ethical decisions.

Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust - up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any ethical significance for the way we live together in civil society?

A hopeful society has institutions of science and medicine that do not cut ethical corners, and that recognize the matchless value of every life.

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Still, both ethical systems reflected a coherent vision of the virtuous life.

«The main attraction is to be able to contribute to the Church's role in helping people find meaning in the love and life of Jesus Christ, generating and maintaining funding for the Church and guiding its leadership role in the ethical and responsible investment of its assets..»

That is why I never speak of «God» in philosophy, but only of «universal will - to - live» which meets me in a twofold way: as creative will outside me, and ethical will within me» (Kraus, p. 42).

These are an adequate summarization of the ethical demands of the Christian life.

Giving ontological status to the term «life» or «will - to - live,» the phrase «reverence for life» becomes a capsulized expression for Schweitzer's «mysticism of reality» or «ethical pantheism.»

The meal they prepare every Sunday for the neighborhood is not an expression of their social or ethical commitments in distinction from their liturgical life; the meal they prepare and the Eucharist they celebrate are parts of a single story.

Not all Christology fits the contours of our lives, not all Christology can be consumed without remainder in moral examples and ethical preachments.

Which of us has not experienced Judas's remorse as we realize that our lives often lack any passionate, ethical involvement with the transcendent?

«I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: «Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

But not all Christology fits the contours of our lives, not all Christology can be consumed without remainder in moral examples and ethical preachments.

It fails on just about every dimension of life, factual, moral, ethical, and yes, even spiritual.

As their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the case.

The experience of the last decade has been sufficient to convince great numbers, if they were not convinced before, that civilized life can not prosper, or even survive, without the undergirding of strong ethical convictions.

They took man realistically as he was — as we should say, a psycho - physical organism — and across many centuries profoundly deepened their insight into the supreme meaning and value of his ethical and spiritual life.

However, the power of the Kingdom is inseparable from the «end» which it is bringing to the world, and, as Albert Schweitzer has so powerfully insisted, the new life of ethical obedience to which Jesus calls his followers is likewise inseparable from the liberation of the believer from the very reality of the world.

Fathers who leave families to make civil rights marches, politicians who sacrifice family life to the exigencies of political campaigns, wives who have to decide between a significant life in a public vocation and the demands of housekeeping, all should know the impossibility of any clear solution of this ethical problem.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

Pope Benedict XVI offers a way forward in his reflections in Jesus of Nazareth, saying that being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice but of an encounter with a person which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

My ultimate ethical standard is the development of the fullness of life for every person.

Most public debate concerns ethical issues such as the beginning and the end of life, or the permissibility of certain sexual behaviors.

The social ethical principles here arise out of love itself; which means the responsible relationship of people who commit their lives to one another.

There are other issues, such as the ethical dimension of scientific and medical advances, and issues of integrity in political and business life.

Here the Esthetic way of life and the ethical way of life are personified in well - drawn characters and presented in meticulous detail down to their most subtle refinements.

To the person concerned with the ethical dimension of living it is not satisfying simply to say that alcoholism is a sickness, implying that the ethical issue has thereby been eliminated.

Karl Barth radically rejected all these distinctions, positing instead a theology of the one Word of God from which all structures, orders, commandments, and ethical norms for Christian living in the world must be derived.

Though it is probable that the positive indications will have the greater long - term significance for American life, the negative side of the report is so disturbing that it's not easy to see through the immediate ethical dislocations to the longer view.