Sentences with phrase «personal value argument»

Not exact matches

Before this starts to sound like the annual lecture from management — perhaps you're one of those corporate employees forced to sleepwalk through an intranet quiz once in a while to prove to your higher - ups that you're familiar with the company's code of conduct — consider DeMars's argument for the value of the ethical office from a personal standpoint: «In order to live happily and at peace with ourselves, we have to live in ways that are congruent with our morals,» she argues.

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

Fundamental to this task is the search for an objective ground for value claims — a well - reasoned argument for external standards which resists the ever - present tendency to reduce ethics to the subjective whims and passions of personal self - interest.

Part of my argument admittedly focuses on highly personal values, such as my concern that collective online creations like Wikipedia have made the Web less expressive by absorbing the efforts of hordes of volunteer authors into an overly regularized scheme.

«PETA's arguments about the value of the science fails on its merits, so they resort to these deeply personal attacks.

In the latest film, the restless twentysomethings who met in 1995 and reconnected in 2004 are in their 40s and married with kids but are still having the same old arguments about personal values and whether it's possible to retain individual will in the context of a long - term romantic relationship.

Beasley likewise doesn't find a particular personal relevance in St. Peter's Basilica in terms of its geographic or religious aspects, but he does certainly appreciate it as a space brilliantly designed to project a strong image - argument on behalf of a particular entity, the Catholic Church, which was grappling at that post-Reformation moment with power, morality, faith, longevity, and values.

Judith Curry wrote: «He voices concerns about the following threats to scientific integrity (see especially the last page): appealing to emotions; making personal (ad hominem) attacks; deliberately mischaracterizing an inconvenient argument; inappropriate generalization; misuse of facts and uncertainties; false appeal to authority; hidden value judgments; selectively leaving out inconvenient measurement results.»

This group writes about groaning in dismay at the unnecessary length of some submissions, at the failure of the attorney to focus on a particular or effective legal argument rather than applying a scattershot approach, and at attorneys who appeal to emotion or personal values at the expense of persuasive and effective legal analysis.

Without a value - added argument, of some sort, you would have a higher reliance on family and friends using your services, just because of the personal connection.