Like the self - assessment form used in NSW, the CBA Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool identifies ten prominent areas
of ethics concerns and risks and provides suggestions to firms for evaluating whether these issues are adequately accounted for in their existing practices.
«I am not quitting because
of ethics concerns,» he wrote, and he cautioned conspiracy buffs:
There's also a growing number
of ethics concerns tied to Pruitt's role in the job....»
As to this particular blog post: I'm not a writer; I am a web developer / software developer / a bit of a photographer **, though, and there are similar sort
of ethics concerns around these areas with regards to book publishing, the legalities of software reviews, and several other parallels.
Most
of the ethics concerning the choice of home birth centers on the primacy of autonomy.
Not exact matches
The letter also notes
concerns around the accuracy
of the facial recognition technology and the
ethics of the technology's use with police body cameras.
Shareholders, for example, according to SHARE's Peter Chapman, are and ought to be
concerned about the «ESG» (
ethics, social and governance) obligations
of the companies they invest in.
«I always felt it a testament to luminosity
of his intellect that he was so outwardly engaged in the world, and had such penetrating vision and passion for the wider
concerns of society and
ethics.»
The researchers still needed to address public
concern about the
ethics and safety
of installing atomic devices inside a human body!
But I can say that if robot
ethics doesn't rise to the level
of a serious
concern for society, then — at the very least — robot etiquette should.
Michael Zimmer, an associate professor at the University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he specialises in privacy and internet
ethics, described this as a «particularly problematic» kind
of voter targeting that raised broader
concerns in the US about «packaging voters like they're consumers».
In addition, the company has a corporate Ombudsman to whom all employees may convey
concerns about business matters that they believe might involve matters
of ethics or questionable practices.
But the filings offered little insight into how the fund will operate, raising
concerns about its transparency and how it will comply with conflict
of interest rules,
ethics experts said.
In my
concern for policing the borders
of Christian
ethics, fearing that we might be stepping over the line into bloodlust, I had forgotten that rejoicing in justice being done is a natural and healthy reaction.
He «was one
of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle
of individualism» the inviolate sanctity
of man's soul, and the salvation
of one's soul as one's first
concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code
of ethics to observe for the salvation
of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code
of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.
Our President is famous for his
concern about the
ethics of campaign finance and professes to share with the Occupiers a
concern with the influence
of corporations on our political life.
For this reason, much
of traditional
ethics has been
concerned with familial relationships.
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.
I quote Dorff at length because his comments raise questions not only
concerning Jewish and Christian
ethics, but
concerning the project
of the volume as a whole.
First, a move to negate the communal - denominational approach to educational enterprise and to make intellectual dialogue among
concerned teachers and post-graduate students
of different religious and secular ideological faiths for exploring a new relevant common anthropology and social
ethic in a pluralist India, central to the Christian college.
Fromm's understanding
of ethics can offer valuable insights
concerning how a planetary
ethic -
of - growth can be developed.
I am grateful for the discussion
concerning the
ethics of immigration between William Chip and Michael Scaperlanda.
Nevertheless, without exaggerating the extent
of the decline
of the work
ethic among the poor, one should note that community leaders in the inner cities are themselves increasingly
concerned about the dysfunctional behavior
of the poor.
Recognizing that the
concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these
concerns can be combined with those
of the land ethicist into a single environmental
ethic.
Generally the more «practical» side
of my work has been
concerned with biomedical
ethics and democratic theory.
I felt what I had to do as a trained professional moral theologian was to play the role
of a critical lover and loving critic and try to help the church realize a viable
ethic concerning homosexuality.
Hence the practice
of a life - centered
ethic requires judgment
concerning whom to rob, when to rob, and how to rob, complemented by a desire to minimize our robbery.
From the perspective
of those who see
ethics in such cross-generational terms as never to neglect the well - being
of the not - yet - born, nothing is more strikingly characteristic
of Western systematic
ethics than its failure to
concern itself with the beautiful ones.
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.
For example, the Old Testament retains a largely disparaging
ethic concerning the status and rights
of women.
There is also a more recent and specific historical reason why the area
of sexual
ethics is both so troublesome and so entwined with ecclesiological
concerns: sexual
ethics was not touched by the great changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council.
LJ - «I do not believe in immortality
of the individual, and I consider
ethics to be an exclusively human
concern with no superhuman authority behind it.»
An analysis
of international declarations (often underestimated) and a growing
concern about business
ethics (evident in the work
of Max Stackhouse, Dennis McCann, Shirley Roels and Preston Williams) indicates that something very much like the global
ethic, with its fundamental guiding norms, is gaining ground in the economic sphere.
Here - in Genesis 1 - 11, in the Sabbath ordinance, in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song
of Songs - we find a God
concerned with our play as well as our work, our aesthetics as well as our
ethics.
f course, I know that a large part
of the objection to the encyclical is its central
concern with environmental
ethics.
It is evident from what has already been said that the
ethics of Jesus are predominantly
concerned with the dignity and responsibility
of the human individual face to face with God.
For a Biblical concept
of justice has been the real
concern of a few
of these writers.58 Evidence is
of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust
of Scripture's discussion
of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis
of society's most common definitions
of «social justice» those
of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social
ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis
of need.
While debate over the understanding
of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart
of current evangelical discussions
concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center
of discussions over social
ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus
of controversy regarding homosexuality.
A
concern for social
ethics, for example, has seemed to some a forfeiture
of the desire to preach to the lost.
I will turn, first, to a description
of a variety
of evangelical perspectives
concerning social
ethics.
The spectrum
of evangelical opinion
concerning social
ethics which these periodicals define could perhaps be sharpened by further explication
of the positions
of representative individual Christians.
While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding
of the role
of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word
of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion
of social
ethics, and engagement with the full range
of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation
concerning homosexuality.
One might wish that Taylor had considered more fully a possibility that emerges only in one rather long footnote — the possibility that a distinction, though not utter separation,
of the spheres
of politics and
ethics might go some way toward addressing the problem that
concerns him.
The next essay, «Christ, Reality, and Good,» is a further treatment in depth
of the view that Christian
ethics is not
concerned with the knowledge
of good and evil.
But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue
ethics he is not so much
concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level
of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.
Stoicism is doubtless the most developed expression
of this
ethics of the present; the present, for Stoicism, is the unique time
of salvation; the past and the future are equally discredited; in one stroke, hope is rejected for the same reason as fear, as a disturbance, an agitation, which proceeds from a revocable opinion
concerning imminent evils or coming goods.
There was a convenient division between theology (
concerned with the knowledge
of God) and
ethics (a lesser enterprise for action - oriented types).
James M. Gustafson faithfully develops Niebuhr's legacy when he insists that «deity is the primary object
of concern for theological
ethics» and that the issues
of theological
ethics are structured by what one experiences, believes and expresses about God and God's relations to the world.
A related problem
concerns the possibility
of deriving
ethics from evolution.
The
ethics of authorship, obligation to cite prior work, and problems
of multiple authorship have been analyzed in an article in Science.13 Others have been
concerned about the humane treatment
of animals, which are crucial in experimental biology and pharmacology.