Sentences with phrase «standards of right and wrong»

The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO), as most others, believes that standards of right and wrong, of doing the right thing, can be taught.

RECO, as most others, believes that standards of right and wrong, of doing the right thing, can be taught.

For the sake of argument, we'll define ethics as the well - founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues; the study and development of one's standards and beliefs to ensure they're reasonable and well - founded; and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly - based.

The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture.

Ethics refers to standards of right and wrong or what we «ought» to do in terms of virtues like obligations and human rights, but ethics also include virtues of compassion and community.

Think you have clear standards of right and wrong written into your brain?

You seem to feel that everyone must adhere to your PERSONAL standards of right and wrong... you're entitled to your opinion, but that is simply not the case.

Where are the real standards of right and wrong?

I'd love to know in what areas you see that, because while I certainly agree that in many ways the human race differs from the Bible's standards of right and wrong, I really don't see that there's been much change over the last couple thousand years — certainly not since the time of the Greeks, when we start having our first comprehensive records outside the Bible.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

«Where standards of right and wrong are asserted with dogmatic certainty and are not open to discussion, and, even worse, where these standards merely express the interests of the stronger party in a relationship while clothing those interests in moralistic language, then that criticism is indeed justified» (p. 140).

At the same time, Millennials are no less convinced than their elders that there are absolute standards of right and wrong.

Their Jesus has no standards of right and wrong — except the wrong of thinking you are right for believing the Bible.

The point is, let's say no God exists... how you do you know your standards of right and wrong are superior to my standards.»

If man is not created in the image of God, and if there is no God in heaven Who will judge the living and the dead, if there are no objective standards of right and wrong — then life becomes cheap.

There is no objective standard of right and wrong, no God, no eternal Day of Judgement.

Whatever else is said was to challenge the article based on it own interpretations of the bible and how it motivated killers based on a double standard of right and wrong.

The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.

This is the type of relativism which we descend into if human beings are the standard of right and wrong.

We took occasion to note that Amos» thought of the universality of God was in some way dependent on his sense of a common human standard of right and wrong.

He made the case that if we base our objections to this on our own conscience rights, we may absolutize the privatization of moral principles, such that the public square is no longer responsible to any standard of right and wrong.

Not exact matches

If there is no objective standard of morality, then all is merely opinion, and there is no «right» and «wrong.»

Both carry on practices from the dim past but each has so industrialized the process with advanced technologies that the fundamental activity is transmuted into something new that raises questions beyond standard discussions of right and wrong.

Both carry on hoary practices from the dim past but each has so industrialized the process with advanced technologies that the fundamental activity is transmuted into something new that raises questions beyond standard discussions of right and wrong on battlefields or in the marketplace.

Kass's ambitious use of the term — as a clear standard for determining what is right and wrong and in keeping with our nature, and for judging the course of biomedicine — strikes me as impossible for such a soft and abstract concept.

One of the standard criticisms of virtue ethics is that it is weak when dealing with issues in applied ethics, in contrast to deontology or utilitarianism, and this because virtue theorists focus on good or bad agents rather than right or wrong acts.

Man's ideas of right and wrong are greatly influenced by group standards.

It would mean that there was a standard of right that existed independent of Walt's will and it would mean facing not only that he made a wrong choice, but also that he had thrown away a precious gift.

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

A sense of an ultimate right and an ultimate wrong is still real for me, and I often wonder how I would deal with any serious breach of that standard in my personal life.

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

The standard of «affirmative consent» (the much - mocked gradualist approach of Antioch College), and renewed inquiries into how alcohol erases agency (and how a prospective partner can gauge inebriation), are not wrong, but they're a long way from being fully right.

Reincarnation, from many angles, is the most reasonable explanation of life and the one viewpoint that most fully corresponds to our actual world while still having an eternal standard of right, wrong, and salvation.

Clinical psychologist and mindfulness instructor Inga Bohnekamp defines mindfulness in this API post as «presence of heart» and mindful parenting as «parenting from the depths of our hearts,» rather than letting us be guided by a set of pre-fixed, often unreflected, standards or rules about what is right and wrong.

Ethologist Frans de Waal has offered several observations of apparent empathy among nonhuman primates in his 1996 book Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, but richer insights come from a series of studies published about 40 years ago, when standards for animal welfare were minimal.

Edward can't accept Florence's confession, and by almost any «enlightened» standard of psychological and spiritual well - being, he's right and she's wrong.

There's nothing wrong (and lots of things right) with setting high standards for yourself and striving to meet them.

As well as creating a graphical showcase for not just the forthcoming Xbox One X but the standard Xbox One itself, Turn 10 Studios has also produced a game that rights the few wrongs of the last game and truly focuses on the player experience.

So it may be right, and acknowledged as such, or wrong, and you can simply explain why (saying for instance: but Gilles, obviously the variation of the last 30 years is xxx °C whereas the standard deviation is only yyyy °C so we've got a signal / noise ration of xxxx / yyyy = zzzz.

I am hoping that the court «s role in this case will strike at the very existence of an absolute immunity under two guiding principles: equality under the law (especially when the alleged wrong has been committed by a person who should be held to the highest standards of conduct in exercising a public trust; and any infringement of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutes «improper purpose» aimed at gaining a private collateral advantage.

You are subject to social and professional ostracism for diverting from the standards of the cult, and it takes a special kind of person to manage to shrug all of that off and still see clearly what's right and what's wrong.

A single black sensor sits in the center of an array of standard fine brush pegs - looking at your hair, judging you, combing your hair, telling you what you're doing right and oh, so wrong.

The Perfectionist: High moral standards, a strong sense of detail and a clear idea of what is right and what is wrong.

; please expand upon «your» comment regarding why Marty is wrong, and therefore that you are right... that the quality of national leadership through the CREA institution is high and of a standard befitting the admiration of a very large percentage of its paying constituents.

Now, in standard fashion, I am flattered and honored that anyone in their right or wrong mind would think of me when dishing out any kind of blogg...