Sentences with phrase «on questions of ethics»

Dominic Martin is a philosopher whose research is focused on questions of ethics, economics and the social responsibilities of business.

This year (2015), the Open Roboethics initiative conducted a survey to better understand public opinions on the question of the ethics and governance of autonomous weapons systems that makes the decision to use lethal force without requiring human intervention and systems in which a person in a remote location makes the decision.

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The reason is that whether the lawyer works for a business or runs one, questions arise regarding the intersection of, and perhaps conflict between, legal ethics on one hand and business ethics on the other.

Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

Their book explores questions of ethics and professionalism in the business world, and is aimed not just at business students but at anybody interested in a conversation on the subject.

During the first of two hearings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator faced tough questions from House Democrats over his myriad ethics scandals and deregulatory fervor.

One - by - one, members of the House of Commons» Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics questioned Massingham and Silvester's credibility and ethics.

It is worth noting that Judge Miner's inability to parse that distinction was not shared by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a twenty - four member commission appointed by Governor Cuomo in 1985 to advise on questions of biomedical ethics.

When the Church speaks with clear magisterial authority on questions undoubtedly within the compass of «faith and morals»» sexual ethics and the meaning of marriage and procreation» the Catholic house divides one way.

Barnett explores these questions in an exquisitely, even painfully, fair - minded and balanced manner, concentrating on the bureaucratized ethic of the UN and employing Hannah Arendt's controversial understanding of «the banality of evil.»

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?

The ethic of not returning to the former parish exacerbates this pain (although the group was divided on the question of whether or not this ethic should be abandoned).

to ponder on the question of how much ethics and religion can be comprised in a Weltanschauung which dares to be inconclusive» (Albert Schweitzer, by Oskar Kraus [Adams & Charles Black, Ltd., 1944], p. 43).

And Lenski's expectations failed because of the imperial judiciary's usurpation of the political process, notably on questions of marriage, family, and sexual ethics.

The doing of ethics involves the use of certain presuppositions and procedures for reflecting on moral and social questions in some sort of orderly fashion.

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.

On the basis of my own work in descriptive biblical ethics I can tentatively suggest a different avenue for this normative question than has been taken so far.

The answer is simple: do the opposite of what catholics want because you can always expect to find them on the wrong side of any question regarding ethics and morals, especially if science is involved or it shows them to be evil.

His work since then has focused increasingly on questions of animal rights, on the ethics of vegetarianism, and on blurring the distinctions between fiction and autobiography.

PAK: Earlier I was speaking about the need to question and overturn the secularist ideology that finds its perfect expression in the axiomatic dogma of the separation of Church and State — the sort of critique Alasdair MacIntyre has pursued in the field of ethics for a long time now, but that the rest of the Church has been surprisingly slow to pick up on.

Although dealing also with questions such as economics and foreign policy, the addresses focus on the «consistent ethic of life» theme that he first set forth in 1983.

The question is [how] to have a basis of communication other than a purely commercial one and communication ethics based on something other than ethnocentricity and historical arrogance.

This emphasis on the primacy of God for Hartshorne's ethics does not eliminate all the questions which Moskop raises, but it does serve to place them into a different context.

In 1999, Webb would publish a theological ethics on the same question in The Gifting God: A Trinitarian Ethics of Excess.

But Hartshorne shows its advantages in a range of questions from metaphysics on the one side to ethics on the other.

Vico's fantasia abhors partial vision, and the great mathematician and astronomer Henri Poincare is on his side when he observes in his Last Essays that in questions of ethics science alone can not suffice because it «can see only one part of man, or, if you prefer, it sees everything but it sees everything from the same angle.»

When we pose the question in these terms, we find that among all those who have written on the subject of ethics, there seems to be agreement that in some sense men ought to be rational or reasonable.

Despite the many books that continue to be published on the topic, «New Testament ethics» is a misleading category, confusing historical constructions with normative judgments, eliding difficult questions about the nature of a scriptural canon, and above all failing to take with sufficient seriousness the dialectic between the formation of a community and the development of the community's norms of belief and behavior.»

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.

From comments on the Barnardos Ireland Facebook page it is evident there are people who will not be taking part in the event this year as it has become an advertising vehicle for the Cow & Gate brand, which raises the question, did the board conduct due diligence on the ethics of this sponsorship deal and the reputational harm it will suffer?»

At this years AGM, Patti Rundall of Baby Milk Action asked the new CEO, Peter Brabeck, a number of questions, including his views on ethics.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

When he faced questions about a pending state ethics probe back in March, State Sen. Marc C. Panepinto insisted he knew of no investigation and cited the need for an official notice from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The effect of the phone hacking scandal originating with the News of the World also raised wider questions about the ethics employed by companies under Murdoch's ownership, as well as the effects the scandal will have on the ethics employed specifically by print journalists and to some extent the wider world of journalism.

(CNN)- The House Ethics Committee will hold a formal hearing on alleged violations by Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat forced to step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this year over ethics questions, a senior Democratic source told CNN on Thursday.

«If there any questions of how it operated, fine,» Cuomo said when asked about the commission, adding he wanted to do «more» on ethics overhaul legislation, but was proud of the results he's achieved so far.

Government ethics experts and a senior New York Democrat question whether Rep. Chris Collins — by far the largest shareholder in an Australian - based biotech company called Innate Immunotherapeutics — and Georgia Rep. Tom Price, Trump's health secretary nominee, bought stock in the company last year based on inside information and made a lot of moneys a result.

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

Mayor de Blasio answered questions from the press on a wide range of topics, including HIV prevention, the role of the Health Department and the «Nanny State», the large - size soda ban, Metzizah B'peh, fines and penalties levied by the Health Department, the ethics complaint filed against Patrick Gaspard, the city's fiscal outlook, stop & frisk and more.

On the first question, a cursory review by Woodstock Times of the local ethics law — and of Article 3 of the state Administrative Procedure Act, which complements and informs the local law — found no provision directing the Ethics Board to omit the specific charge when it notifies individuals that they are the subject of a complaint.

Not content with their efforts to knock a top - tier Democrat out of the Ohio 6th District race, the National Republican Congressional Committee is trying to capitalize on the ethics question currently surrounding Rep. Alan Mollohan (D - W.

After being published on Monday, the story quickly became another piece of ammunition for Democrats who have questioned Price's financial transactions while in office, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for an ethics investigation into Price.

An artificial intelligence innovator and a professor of moral theology and ethics cast a unique light on profound questions concerning how we as humans experience the world, think and relate to technology at a public lecture sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER).

► «Pressure on surgeon Paolo Macchiarini,» who «is under a cloud of controversy after colleagues and media reports questioned the ethics of [his artificial trachea] operations and the accuracy of papers he published about their success,» continues to increase «as the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm says it will try to cut ties with him before his current contract runs out in November,» Gretchen Vogel wrote on Wednesday.

But some experts on research ethics question the wisdom of merging two categories of undesirable behavior and worry that it could complicate efforts to promote ethical conduct.

We should not only question the construct of the «ethics of curing,» as I will show, but we also need to look critically at reservations toward research on embryonic stem cells as they are expressed in our society.

Its tasks are to reflect different standpoints in the scientific and public discussion of life science issues, to develop ideas how to involve citizens, and to give policy advice on ethics questions surrounding new developments in the life sciences.

A new report on the ethics of Ebola, released today by the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, takes a nuanced view of the questions about study design; the committee doesn't rule out placebo - controlled studies but allows room for other designs as well.

Although many have questioned the ethics of that profit and the burden of the drug price on the health - care system, Beall says that without Vertex, there would be no drug.

However, questions about the design and ethics of the trial have cast a negative light on the field, particularly gene therapy for non-life-threatening diseases.