Sentences with phrase «of public ethics»

• Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and the author of Requiem for a Species.

Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.

Clive Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Australia's Charles Sturt University and the author of «Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change,» reacted bluntly.

It's people like Austin Shafran that have created this crisis of public ethics and its way out of control.

But for Democratic leaders, whose control of the House is uncertain, the prospect of a public ethics trial involving one its most senior members in the heart of the general election season is extremely worrisome.

«Twenty years ago, we felt like money in politics was a problem, that effective strong oversight of public ethics was a problem, that our court system was a problem, and the balance of power between the governor and the Legislature were a problem,» said Citizen Union executive director Dick Dadey.

Not exact matches

(In late September, five corporate AI leaders — Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft — formed the nonprofit Partnership on AI to advance public understanding of the subject and conduct research on ethics and best practices.)

Axon, which makes Taser electroshock weapons body cameras, launched an artificial intelligence ethics board for public safety to guide the development of AI - powered services.

Berke: Chattanooga has an ethic of working together through public - private partnerships.

The researchers still needed to address public concern about the ethics and safety of installing atomic devices inside a human body!

Having a set of values or ethics you share with the public helps, Oakes says, because it shows you stand for more than just making a profit.

The delay follows Swift's very public doubts about the ethics of streaming services, which meant the pop star's first five albums were only added to Spotify in June.

Bragging about your insanely long workweeks (whether you actually work that many hours in reality or not) is usually a public statement of your importance, dedication, and work ethic.

According to an ethics disclosure made public Friday, Ivanka Trump received at least $ 12.6 million since early 2016, either directly or through her trust (which is held by relatives of her husband, White House senior advisor Jared Kushner).

Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals is comprised principally of corporate secretaries and business executives in governance, ethics, and compliance functions at public, private, and not - for - profit organizations.

Disclosure is consistent with public policy, in the best interest of the Company and its shareholders, and critical for compliance with federal ethics laws.

Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a group that promotes ethics in government, said Mr. Trump's swipe at Nordstrom was not a major issue in itself.

Fifth, governments, industry and other interested groups should strengthen their efforts to build a national ethic of energy conservation and a clearer public understanding of the costs and benefits of various energy choices.

Need proof, check out the global Empathy Index, which analyzes the ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception and public social media messaging of 170 companies listed on major financial indexes.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

In both England and America, Victorian preachers, novelists, poets, and statesmen alike struggled hard to maintain a national ethic of private domesticity and public respectability without the church and chapel in which that ethic was born.

The best way of making certain you pay the least taxes possible is to take them to certified public accountant (CPA), a designation used only by accountants who have passed a very difficult exam and are held to high standards of ethics.

The key to the strength of Victorian virtues was that those virtues were not, in fact, just middle class but were shared by nearly everyone: from the Queen down to the poorest Cockney, nearly everyone believed in the public good that came from observance of the national ethic.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

Because of the tendency in Luther and the reformers to distinguish between grace and law» understandable relative to late - medieval scholasticism» Protestants ever since have erected a false dichotomy between grace and law that has had debilitating effects in theology, ethics, and public policy.

Against this approach Budziszewski insists that man's natural knowledge of God is essential to his natural knowledge of morality: a naked public ethic is as dangerous as a naked public square.

Or will those churches now complete their sectarian withdrawal from the arena of public debate as their theologians and activists go on speaking to themselves as though they were living 350 years ago and economics were just a branch of biblical ethics?

The last year's worth of controversy are simultaneously a commendation and condemnation of the state of «Christian» journalism and associated punditry, but the alternative is not necessarily blogging or «just» blogging, but a reappraisal of our ethics and interests in the public sphere

That's what you call a code of ETHICS??? So your employer does something terrible and you have to keep quiet about it even if it's in the public interest to know, and you consider it ethical to stay silent?

No to Privatization «red in tooth and claw»; yes to Public Sector without political corruption; no to Liberalization, with market exploitation; yes to Liberation from exploitative coercion; no to globalization as domination of world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism in sharing and caring for the suffering humanity and Good Samaritan ethic - these should be evolved and situated in Third World conditions and perspectives.

The situation calls for the search for a new more holistic humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue of religions and secular ideologies.

As a result our influence is ebbing from public life and we are increasingly finding ourselves at odds with popular culture and political opinion in areas of morality such as bioethics, right to life, family and sexual ethics.

The most troubling of public neighbors were the able - bodied unemployed, and reformers endeavored to separate out those worthy poor who were the temporary victims of economic circumstances beyond their control and those unworthy poor immune to the appeal of the Protestant work ethic.

After the Holocaust any credible God - talk must be able to take account of burning children, and any credible theological ethic has to show it is determined to head off such atrocities at their very beginnings, deep in the habits of hearts and minds and in public policies.

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.

In the final analysis, the churches» ability to teach the ethic of eco-justice to the public depends on the assessment we make of the religious and ethical significance of our public traditions — in particular, the civic tradition of participatory democracy.

For one, there are excellent works at the interface of environmental ethics and public policy, such as K. S. Schrader - Frechette's Nuclear Power and Public Policy (Boston: D. Reidel, 1980), and her Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, public policy, such as K. S. Schrader - Frechette's Nuclear Power and Public Policy (Boston: D. Reidel, 1980), and her Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, Public Policy (Boston: D. Reidel, 1980), and her Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1981).

If we are going to teach a public ethic of eco-justice, we need public stories of eco-justice — public parables that have the capacity to communicate the meaning of our love for the earth and for people as citizens: the reality of the struggle for eco-justice in the ongoing history of our civic communities.

An ethic of virtue and character — either in its more Christian form, as in the theology of Stanley Hauerwas (A Community of Character [University of Notre Dame Press, 19821), or its more secular form, as in Alasdair McIntyre's After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982)-- can never advance convincing reasons in public conversation.

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.

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.

As Christians, we need to articulate an ethic for public servants and a theology of power.

And the laws that forbid all manner of discrimination seem to emanate from a disinterested public «ethic,» suitably cleansed of any sectarian shading.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

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.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

The scientist, like the doctor, has power over the life and well - being of man, and so, it is argued, the public is particularly vulnerable to his code of ethics.

Based on that view, they attempt to develop an ethic of life with concomitant public policy proposals.

Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else - and that is broadly the case in our public mindset - then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded.

Presumably, the committee from the United Church of Christ that called on Abernathy to «repent» of his authorship of the King autobiography felt that King's personal life was so uninteresting, or that such a neat separation could be made between personal morality and public ethics, that Abernathy could have only destructive motives for his revelation.