Sentences with phrase «of ethical thinking»

Located in the Silicon Valley, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics brings the traditions of ethical thinking to bear on real world problems.

But it is the role of ethical thinking — the one that poses the question of responsibility — to unblind us to the impact we have as such citizens, whether we assume this citizenship actively or «passively» (the passive has an impact too!)

So I thought of a way to make the whole process of ethical thinking concrete.

Around the problems involved in this situation the stream of ethical thinking in the early Old Testament swirls.

Thirdly, in the trend of ethical thinking we are investigating, it is characteristically assumed that what makes us aware of the self in the first place is just this double intrusion of death: the cry of the vulnerable other eliciting our preparedness to negate our own life.

His monograph Karl Barth and the Problem of War had awakened me to the dangers of the Grenzfall «as a tool of ethical thought.»

Note how this changes the categories of ethical thought.

Wood by contrast singled out the influence of the ethical thought of Aristotle and Joseph Butler in the immediate pre-Tractarian period (1820 - 30) in Oxford itself.

Since its application, the Directive led to the development of an ethical thought and to the enhancement of animal welfare in order to perform animal research in conditions that meet harm - benefice balance.

Not exact matches

When does the amount of automated «clinical thinking» done by the software application constitute the «practice of medicine» with all its associated ethical and legal aspects?

University program designers can review a cross-section of portfolios to glean invaluable information about whether their programs are helping students develop core overarching skills, such as writing, ethical savvy and critical thinking.

«When employees perceived that their company was ethical, their knowledge improved and their attitudes changed as a result of the harassment prevention training... they take it seriously because they think that the organization is taking it seriously.»

«Ethical quandaries aside (of which there are several) for a moment, I think this strategy speaks poorly of the startup,» said one comment.

It is all too tempting to think of ethical leadership as a question only for CEOs or for top - tier executives.

If making you ethical was the aim, then ethics education would be either redundant or hopeless: critics are probably right to think that a basic understanding of right and wrong is either there by the time kids enter university or it isn't.

But before we think about taxing robots and AI, we need to get the basics of the self - learning technology right, and develop comprehensive ethical standards that hold up for the long term.

For that reason, organizations should give as much thought to the ethical content of their policies as they do to promulgating and enforcing them.

Thus every policy an organization puts in place ought to be thought of as grounded in one or more ethical principles or values.

But I think it's a useful way of framing the task of applying ethical standards to novel situations.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

Rosalind Wiseman is a teacher, thought leader, author and media spokesperson on bullying prevention, ethical leadership, the use of social media and media literacy.

An approach to investing that began over a century ago, this field started as a way to avoid exposure to companies that contradicted the moral or ethical values of investors — think about industries such as tobacco, gambling or weapons.

But it's hard to think of another leader in American business who comes closer to being a model of ethical behavior or who so clearly and consistently stakes out the high ground.

To enable, engage, and educate through our forums of thought leaders in the investment community to advance the industry along the highest ethical standards.

The basis of modern ethical thought is based up the works of Immanuel Kant.

I have also seen people who turned away from the Church and / or broke a moral or ethical standard of the Church and they feel so guilty they think people in the Church are judging them when they are not.

Now if the Bible could be so wrong about a clear ethical failure of slavery, what makes anyone think it has anything to say about sexual orientation or women's rights?

Such a method would of course be no guarantee of a single ethical stance, but to proceed without such thought concerning the how of Christian ethics would most surely end in further frustration.

-LCB- alert: Smith would probably not have done well in the Twitter world -RCB- One can surmise that the form of capitalism that Americans subscribed to in Adam Smith capitalism was based on an ethical system influenced by Christianity.My very, very rudimentary understanding of Sharia laws concerning finance suggest to me that it is more closely related to Adam Smith capitalism than to predatory capitalism.What do you think?

«But I don't think they had quite as much of an ethical viewpoint, so consequently simply caved to it.

When the argument from creation to Creator had begun to lose convincing power, even before the rise of modern evolutionary thinking, Immanuel Kant proposed that we think of God in relation to our ethical experience rather than cosmology.

As Professor Alfred Whitehead puts it: «The result was that with passionate earnestness they gave free rein to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society.»

Their minds were practical, their interests ethical, their manner of thinking picturesque and dramatic.

(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.

Many of them said, «I've never thought about contraception in theological terms,» or, «I've tried to avoid thinking about the ethical implications of this topic.»

In the chapter «Exploring Romance,» Trafford relates a story that highlights the need for more rigorous ethical thought about what healthy use of «my time» means.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

thought that an action will become less ethical the more «medical» it is, and medical problems of morality might be regarded as a sign that objectivity has not yet been carried far enough.

This riveting, award - winning story brims with religious and ethical conundrums, making it a thought - provoking, top - of - the - line read.

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.

In an essay titled «Religio - Ethical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of a Philosophy of Black Liberation» (I.T.C. Journal, I / 1, 1973), I have sought to establish these aspects of the psychology of black religious thought.

However, the greatness of Christianity was first manifest when its founders, utterly convinced of the imminent end of the world, «gave free reign to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society» (AI 16).

The cross-generational character of African ethical thought is a consequence of its social conception of human existence.

Whitehead once humorously summed up the ethical objection to substance theories by remarking, «I sometimes think that all modern immorality is produced by Aristotle's theory of substance.»

It is not old - fashioned to think about parenting and concern for children as among the central ethical issues of life, says Bateson.

If there can be no absolute expression of religious truth and ethical valuation, then must we not conclude that historical thinking sets us adrift precisely when our culture needs firm anchoring?

These too are identities, ethical decisions, though we think poorly of them.

The ethical issues that have become important as a result of the ecological movement have been germane to Whiteheadian thinking all along.

Johnson graphically illustrates the moral schizophrenia of much contemporary moral and religious - ethical thought, including that of the U.S. Catholic bishops and other official religious bodies.

The question that is put to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our thought and the ethical consequences of our thought concerning Jesus the Christ to the ontological matrix in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one at the center of our confession as the bearer of «substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.