Sentences with phrase «of ethical reasons»

Many of us are aware of the ethical reasons to stop supporting factory farming (check out documentaries Food Inc or Earthlings for more).

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.

Some of the ethical reasons people choose to lead a vegan lifestyle include:

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.

This method of ethical reasoning has puzzled and divided Niebuhr's interpreters, as has his religious sensibility as a whole.

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.

There is no justification for a war on outdoor cats — feral or otherwise — based on shaky science and an absence of ethical reasoning.

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.