Sentences with phrase «of practical ethics»

In the Brennan confirmation hearings, the ethics of drones became the subject of debate, but it tended to remain within the confines of practical ethics, emphasising questions about legal permissibility, rules of engagement etc..

Not exact matches

Business ethics is a number of things — an academic discipline, a field of practical expertise and, increasingly, a central business function.

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.

Such specific regulative principles, which of themselves exclude any formalist situation ethics, even of a Christian type, have also great practical importance.

In both of these strictures, the role of theological ethics or moral theology in practical theology was minimized, and the idea that practical theology dealt with the church's attempt to influence the order of the public world subsided.

There is also variance on the centrality of theological ethics for practical theology and, in addition, there are different ideas about how theological ethics should be conceived.

As much as this ethic is needed, as much as we are all indebted to the new clarifications which have come from the contemporary ethics of virtue and character, and as much as we must never lose its accomplishments, the new practical theologies must strive for something more rigorous.

I am making the stronger claim, for which I am indebted to Julian Hartt, that ethics is at the heart of theology because the grammar of Christian discourse is fundamentally practical.

Generally the more «practical» side of my work has been concerned with biomedical ethics and democratic theory.

Administrators worry that doctoral students increasingly will be trained in the history of religion or comparative religions rather than in Bible, theology, ethics, church history and practical studies — the traditional fields of theological education.

This work is necessary to provide for practical theology a method and procedure (built at least in part on an ethic of principles) and help it to avoid the danger of associating the ethical core of practical theology with an ethic of virtue and character.

Does not ethics serve as the practical application of theological truths?

Although he suggested that it be included within Practical Theology, Schleiermacher made his detailed treatment of mission study in his section on ethics.

I make that unhappy admission not just because I still do not know my own mind clearly and systematically enough about four central issues of that practical theology task — contemporary social theory, ethics, ecclesiology and the history of spirituality.

I see ethics, spirituality, catechetics, preaching, and all pastoral counsel as needing to be informed and regulated by theological interpretation of Scripture, and I do not expect to see any good practical Christianity where this discipline is neglected.

Contrary to Weber's effort to show «how abstract ethical doctrines could influence everyday life,» Zaret concludes that «practical ethics in profane activities can be no less influential for the formation of abstract doctrine.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

These final essays are written from the perspective of practical studies, namely, pastoral care, Christian ethics and feminist liberation theology.

In the process of giving theology a practical expression he shaped a distinctively American social ethic that dominated Protestant thought in America from the close of World War I to the widening of the war in Viet Nam.

The practical conclusion of «Confrontation» is easily summarized: Jews must work together with representatives of the «religion of the many» when it comes to ethics and public policy.

Indeed, if the only practical ethical standard left is the principle of consent, then in a world pervaded by pornography, society's sexual ethics are likely to be as plastic as our neural pathways.

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

While the medieval philosophers gave pride of place to metaphysics, i.e. speculative access to being, and the modernist preferred ethics, i.e. practical access to meaning, the postmodern philosopher believes that aesthetics is most important.

That is why, in explicating «the fundamentally existential character of Thomist ethics,» Maritain stresses two points, one regarding charity, the other regarding practical wisdom or prudence.

The moral concern was taken from the practical field, and subsumed under systematic theology, creating a new field of theology and ethics.

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

Rather, I suspect that the practical application of an ethic of food and drink will have to present the public with an ever more graphic picture of what is being done and rely on the inherent wisdom of human beings eventually to make some humanitarian decisions.

That would in itself be a definition hard to quarrel with, were it not for the fact that in recent years it has come to be widely held that the final purpose of «doing» social ethics is to draw up a blueprint for a just society and perhaps also a practical guide for getting there.

Browning suggests their relation with a mixed image: theology is the «outer envelope» and ethics the «inner core» of strategic practical theology.

What Max Weber calls an ethic of responsibility includes the challenge to find just and helpful social policies in order that a society can be responsive to the hurts and needs of people in a practical and realistic way.

Instead of Reinhold Niebuhr's Nature and Destiny of Man, the better model for an ethic pertinent to strategic practical theology might be H. Richard Niebuhr's The Responsible Self.

He did not intend to give absolute rules for man's conduct; his ethic was an «interim - ethic,» that is, his commands were only practical rules for the last short span of time which remained before the end.

In short, these lobby groups have shifted the categories of discourse and changed the rules of practical public engagement on the issue of sexual ethics in a way that preempts any and all deviation from the party line.

view, Aristotle had rightly held that understanding of human behavior in politics and ethics has to be practical and not contemplative understanding because behavior is so changeable.

The purpose of courses in theology and ethics, then, would not be to explore ethical «positions» or «systems» of theological thought as such but rather to «help students to become practical Christian thinkers» (106).

I prefer the more practical assessments both Michael Novak (The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism) and I (The Ethic of Democratic Capitalism — A Moral Reassessment) made of «democratic capitalism» in the early 1980s, but I will take help from whomever can supply it.

The question is really how courses in Church history, missions and practical theology on the one hand, in systematic theology, Christian ethics and philosophy of religion on the other, are being taught.

«As a practical matter, I don't think ethics is in forefront right now because of budget demands and what the governor is pushing,» said Bonacic.

«I think what Skilling does from a practical standpoint... is it forces them to make a much tighter connection between the defendant and the bribe or the kickback,» said Todd Haugh, an assistant professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University.

The New York City Bar Association's committee on government ethics said the proposal «is both practical and sensible, and presents an opportunity to build toward obtaining the goal of providing the public and government officials with an accurate picture of who is spending what to influence the exercise of governmental power by those officials» but urged the tightening of a definition.

Beside a career in practical conservation action, he is interested in the ethics of conservation and the philosophy of language applied to the analysis of the environmental discourse.

Another deserving effort in promoting scientific integrity in China is to foster a healthy research environment, which includes making explicit research ethics policies, issuing a practical code of conduct, establishing a credible and authoritative national organization to supervise local units, protecting whistle - blowers, building a rigorous and fair peer review system, revising the criteria for promotion and reward to emphasize research quality rather than quantity by a researcher, and achieving zero tolerance for unethical research behaviors.

Deeper engagement, both theoretical and practical, of the yogic science and its ethics for complete transformation of the mind, body, and soul.

Detailed study and practical implication of Yogic Philosophy as a part of yogic lifestyle and ethics as mentioned in Yoga Upanishad, Bhagavad Gita and the Sutras of Patanjali.

For example, you might want to improve a learner's practical skills — skills that relate to the application of theory and knowledge — and soft skills like communication, or behaviors, such as the consideration of ethics or safety before a decision is made.

It makes practical applications possible, spreads all the general requirements, including requirements of scientific ethics, novelty, validity of the findings, methodical adequacy, results reproducibility, etc..

As well as practical guidance the book takes a step back and explores the different philosophical arguments and standpoints and the resultant solutions and problems of each approach, examining the background and relationship between different philosophical schools of thought, ethics and veterinary care.

It's a whole different ethic of travel... [Rolf Potts's] practical advice might just convince you to enjoy that open - ended trip of a lifetime.»

Alignment, benefits, and language for safely presenting the postures will be covered as well as teaching techniques and methodology, anatomy and physiology, yoga philosophy and ethics, and the business of yoga with practical application.

After hearing lectures by the Zen Buddhist scholar D. T. Suzuki at Columbia, she became interested in Asian thought, not as a religious discipline, but as a code of ethics, a practical how - to for getting through life.