Sentences with phrase «of ethics matters»

Supreme Court of New Jersey District IIA Ethics Committee, Bergen County - North Chair (2012 - Present) Vice Chair (2011 - 2012) Committee Member (2009 to 2011) The District Ethics Committee is charged with the investigation, prosecution and judgment of ethics matters involving attorneys.

Not exact matches

He also added some thoughts on the criticality of scaling swiftly, and about the importance — early on — of paying attention to matters of ethics and core values of the business you're trying to create.

It is the nature of bureaucracies and their leaders to engage in self - protection — and to think of their choice to do so as a matter of high - minded ethics, not self - interest.

We tend to think of ethics as a matter of character.

«They are barred from investing in offerings like Carlyle's as a matter of both law and ethics.»

And it might not matter much two years hence — surely Mr. Trudeau would be forgiven were he to look at recent history and conclude that elections could be won despite questions about the ethics of one's actions.

It might be possible to make a reasonable argument that Mr. Trudeau has done nothing wrong — the same ethics commissioner to whom the Harper government deferred on the matter of Nigel Wright's cheque seems to have cleared Mr. Trudeau to make the speeches he made between 2008 and 2012.

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.

Also appreciate your world view of things be it to simplify life or be it on ethics, I find it very helpful to remind me what matters more to us.

I frankly believe while there is plenty of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions of these endevours, religion is at its bottom line a matter of faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated with science.

Similarly, MacIntyre has come up with a metaphor to explain exactly why it is that moral debate in today's society is so shrill and so rarely leads to consensus — why, in other words, society seems utterly incapable of coming to enough basic agreement in matters of ethics to enable it to deal with the moral chaos that surrounds us.

Fox - Genovese writes, «For although the Constitution prohibits the establishment of specific churches and prescribes a tolerance for different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.»

In an extended discussion on a matter of practical Christian ethics, it is my contention that the Christian ethic provides the best defense of the poor and needy in society.

All of the matters mentioned thus far bear on the central question of ethics: Is it «right» for a Christian, under any circumstance, to take her or his own life?

something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice.

The neglect of ethics means decay, no matter how great the initial power may be.

Moreover, because of his personal history, Keen has largely ignored matters of social ethics in his discussion of play, despite his desire to become Homo Tempestivus, that timely man who responds appropriately to life around him.

Now religion and even ethics are deemed to be purely subjective and matters of individual feeling, so they can not be meaningfully discussed.

The issues that need to be weighed in areas of ethics are not a black and white matter.

William Oddie quotes a correspondent defending the Soho Masses as saying, «Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics» (Ecclesial Co-operation with Homosexual Activism; Faith September and October 2010).

The law is thus being interpreted and applied in line with the canons of political and cultural discourse that have emerged over the last fifty years, where oppression is increasingly a psychological category and ethics is increasingly aesthetics, a matter of taste.

From Odysseus» perspective as from that of any aristocratic Greek, relationships with slaves were not matters involving ethics.

To the extent that they have addressed family - related matters, mainline churches have aligned themselves with a therapeutic ethic of care and self - fulfillment that affirms a range of family configurations and sexual practices.

It may be worth emphasizing that the substantive principle of justice in a teleological ethic (or, for that matter, any ethic at all) is invalid unless it consistently implies the formative human rights of communicative respect.

6William Blackstone argues for Schweitzer's role as mentor in the animal liberation movement in «The Search for an Environmental Ethic,» in Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy, ed.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

Johnson notes that realist political theory (with its focus on rationally conceived interests) and the rational and cosmopolitan ethic of the Enlightenment do not take such matters into account.

Given my rather public skepticism of the thesis that humans are causing any significant climate change, my friend Bob Benne, who is the director of the ethics center at Roanoke College, invited me down to Roanoke to debate Mr. Cizik on these matters.

Everybody can... it's just a matter of ambition and work ethic (the latter of which seems to be severely lacking these days).

For that matter, it does not now command great attention in contemporary discussions of theology or ethics.

Regarding matters of social ethics, it is the interaction between competing traditions that holds out the most promise for helping evangelicals to move beyond their current impasse.

Too often, in that section of the evangelical community which stems from American revivalism and fundamentalism, discussion of social ethics passes over this foundational matter altogether, discussing instead only specific procedures.

For the chapter on social ethics, I benefited from the personal reactions of James Daane and of Ronald Nash, gentlemen who come to very different conclusions on the matter.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics.

Its categories — such as «Christ against culture» and «Christ of culture» — have ever since been familiar reference points in the field of Christian ethics and in debates about how Christians and the church should engage matters of politics, society and culture.

While the social scientist aims to present the truth of the matter, politicians and spinners live by a different ethic.

This procedure constantly happens, from the most insignificant matters to the greatest, and is a major source of the perversion of Christian ethics.

Perhaps; the important matter, however, is the principles to which right conduct was related — a sort of ancient prolegomenon of ethics.

The ACOG guidelines implicitly view ethics as a matter of private emotion and sentiment, rather than as common rationality and shared practical wisdom.

According to the ethics report, physicians objecting to abortion or contraception must refer patients desiring such services to other providers (recommendation # 4); may not argue or advocate their views on these matters though they are required to provide prior notice to their patients of their moral commitments (recommendation # 3); and, in emergency cases or in situations that might negatively affect patient physical or mental health, they must actually provide contraception and / or perform abortions (recommendation # 5, emphasis added).

Before concluding these remarks on the ethics of the inductive method, let it be urged again that the preacher make not only the content but the method of his sermons a matter of conscience and conviction.

Although scheduled to address the ethics of these matters, Watson discussed at length the politics and economics of scientific entrepreneurship, including advice on how to induce a nervous Congress to allocate huge sums for an enterprise of doubtful benefit.

They are presenting Christianity as an ethical religion in which ethics are directly related to a certain set of convictions about God, man, and the world, a set of convictions religious in their subject matter and theological in their expression.

A minimal ethic of bodily consumption might embrace the concept of reverence for life — Albert Schweitzer's maxim that only when faced with the utmost necessity is one justified in taking the life of another creature or, for that matter, inflicting any manner of cruelty.

However, the NY Magazine article highlights something very important — the people of God, who are called to hold to the highest standard of morals and ethics, now rank as the highest group percentage-wise of those who say that these things don't necessarily matter.

The theory of evolution is considered too pervasive by the Catholic Church, which seems above all to beworried about the influence of «social Darwinism» and the evolutionist theories concerning economic matters and medical ethics.

If there is no fact of the matter, there is little point in assigning ethics a central role in the formal curriculum.

It is historically an effort to remind us that the democratic political system was really «political affirmation» of certain religious concepts... the basic ethics of all religions for that matter, but it's not a sectarian thing.