There is no justification for a war on outdoor cats — feral or otherwise — based on shaky science and an absence
of ethical reasoning.
This method
of ethical reasoning has puzzled and divided Niebuhr's interpreters, as has his religious sensibility as a whole.
I was in wrestling myself, and we never put male and female wrestlers together, first because of physical differences and then out
of ethical reasons.
Some of the ethical reasons people choose to lead a vegan lifestyle include:
Thus, the prospect of applying this technique in humans is troubling for scientific and safety reasons in addition to a variety
of ethical reasons related to our ideas about the natural ordering of family and successive generations.
Many of us are aware
of the ethical reasons to stop supporting factory farming (check out documentaries Food Inc or Earthlings for more).
I gladly changed my eating pattern about 10 years ago to a vegan lifestyle, partially because
of ethical reason and secondly because of my health.
Not exact matches
The tide
of history — and sound
ethical reasoning — is against Snyder on this one.
For that
reason, organizations should give as much thought to the
ethical content
of their policies as they do to promulgating and enforcing them.
Phil Graves, head
of Patagonia's venture fund Tin Shed Ventures, discusses investing in entrepreneurs for social and
ethical reasons.
Thats one
of the
reasons companies can stay profitable even when the costs
of ethical and green production might be higher
«I see the memo as the CFTC cautioning its employees on the
ethical issues that could be raised by their trading in cryptocurrencies, encouraging them to consider and seek advice from the CFTC ethics team before trading in cryptocurrencies, noting that employees may not transact in cryptocurrencies if they have nonpublic information about them from their work at the CFTC, and advising that those who participate in CFTC dealings related to cryptocurrencies may not trade in them for conflict
of interest
reasons.»
That's one
of the
reasons companies can stay profitable even when the costs
of ethical and green production might be higher.
Those courts may still decline to assume jurisdiction (as here), but the only
reason that
ethical counsel could countenance undertaking this second round
of litigation was precisely because the Federal Court
of Appeal had declined to address the matter.
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.»
Her position emerged out
of the dialogue with Lawrence Kohlberg, whose research and theory on the development
of moral
reasoning builds toward post-conventional stages grounded in the Kantian
ethical tradition
of rights, duties, and obligations.
But moral progress, the realm
of freedom, is a quite different matter: «Yet in the field
of ethical awareness and moral decision - making, there is no similar possibility
of accumulation [incremental progress] for the simple
reason that man's freedom is always new and he must always make his decisions anew.
Humans are capable
of forming
ethical, well -
reasoned decisions without needing to perpetuate such incoherent, closed - minded fantasy... I swear, christians are among the most frightened, baby - brained people on the planet!
By sin you mean an
ethical system determined by an intangible higher being vs one where you take full responsibility
of your choices using logic and
reason?
In our time, in fact, especially in some countries, we are witnessing a disturbing divergence between
reason, whose task is to discover the
ethical values linked to the dignity
of the human person, and freedom, whose responsibility is to accept and promote them.
Fifty - two percent indicated some sort
of religious,
ethical or political beliefs as the
reason they dropped out.
The problem is one
of practical
reason; but if
reason is to be exercised properly it must undergo constant purification, since it can never be completely free
of the danger
of a certain
ethical blindness caused by the dazzling effect
of power and special interests.
Given the inevitability
of the communications - connected global village, the crucial importance
of access, and the change in «top - down» lines
of authority, what role will
ethical and moral
reasoning play?
The truncated idea
of God that figures in the analysis, and in much
of the rest
of the church's
ethical reasoning, automatically precludes or minimizes the investigation
of certain lines
of thinking, and leads to reductionistic treatments
of a wide range
of issues.
Such issues as slavery, the status
of women, and political freedom, the virtues
of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom
of the spirit in worship, all such
ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the
reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.
For you to believe that scientist are for some
reason more
ethical and honest than the rest
of us is pure stupidity, or just incredible naivity.
From what has been said thus far, it is obvious that the liberty
of individuals to pursue private good is the major moral concern
of the new reformers and for this
reason their
ethical views can fairly be seen as a variety
of the contractarian social ethic now increasingly characteristic
of political society.
There are two
reasons why it is important for women to get more actively engaged in
ethical discourse in India, as in all parts
of the world.
The primary
reason for this is that it is often women who find themselves in the midst
of almost daily
ethical and moral choices that they are called to make in their own lives but also in the life
of their families or communities.
On Christian
ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws making criminal offenses
of acts between consenting homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against homosexual persons
of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion
of homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a
reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.
At the same time, she writes in a later blog that the main point she wished to make in her earlier article is that atheists like her don't need belief in the biblical God in order to maintain certain
ethical principles by
reason alone, in the light
of experience, and thus in a «conservative» manner.
The highest task for health education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes
of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals
of reason, qualitative judgment, and
ethical concern.
Teaching (didaskein) is in a large majority
of cases
ethical instruction.2 Occasionally it seems to include what we should call apologetic, that is, the
reasoned commendation
of Christianity to persons interested but not yet convinced.
The term natural law is used to mean a body
of ethical imperatives supposedly inherent in human beings and discovered by human
reason.
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.
As transhumanism becomes more prevalent, as the sexual revolution identifies more perversions as «rights,» as technocracy overtakes
ethical reasoning and truth is more frequently confused with power, believers will find themselves ever more frequently in the position
of explaining that some realities are not contingent on the prevailing ethos
of culture, or on our judgments, or on the fleeting whims
of self - definition.
For this
reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds
of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance
of this new institution, with its new kind
of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave
of exciting.
We may, by such
reasoning, justify our use
of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower
ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way
of the world.
And because man lacked the ability to arrive at
ethical and moral truths by
reason, neither could philosophy become «the handmaiden
of theology.»
He would have heartily approved
of the integration
of the empirical and theoretical, while questioning the premise that our political and
ethical life concerns our
reason but not our emotions and appetites.
For
reasons given in Chapter 4, the expectancy
of a speedy end
of the existing world scene did not basically pervert the
ethical insights
of the early Church, and still less those
of Jesus.
So, if Jews could not make the opposite case for themselves and their
ethical tradition, there was no
reason to assume that Judaism itself could function outside the ghetto in a sphere
of secular equality.
From the seventeenth century, in reaction to these wars
of religion, some politicians began to ignore moral constraints and to base their policies on
reasons of state», which allowed a nation to deviate from the
ethical norms required
of the individual.
Natural religion, or the religion
of plain
reason, was assumed to be uncomplicated
ethical monotheism, incompatible with trinitarian speculations and the imposition
of other religious duties besides the duty to lead a virtuous life.
* If you have not preached on
ethical issues, reflect on the
reasons both in terms
of your own feelings and experience and in terms
of your sense
of the feelings and experiences
of your parishioners.
Instead I see the aesthetic teleological vision as one in which we may break out
of the confines
of the
ethical criteria usually employed in theodicies that have proven to be unsatisfactory for the
reasons outlined so clearly in Kushner's fine book.
It pulls technological
reason upward toward the vision
of God and resists the gravitational pull toward an
ethical outlook which knows no appeal beyond survival.
I have a special
reason for gratefulness to him since he was perhaps the first person who thought
of taking a doctorate based on my writings on social ethics from which I learned what my
ethical methodology was.
Most cosmologies have been fashioned within the confines
of this
ethical vision and for this
reason have aroused much
of the modern distaste for teleology.
It is for this
reason that I consider it the first and primal act
of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian
of the «phenomenon
of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility
of «seeing»,
of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts»
of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum
of the movement
of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level
of its manifestation.