Sentences with phrase «understood as an ethical»

The criteria of acceptability must be understood as an ethical rather than a scientific question.

Given that climate change is obviously an ethical problem, and that if climate change is understood as an ethical problem it has profound significance for climate policy, the utter failure of the US media to cover climate change as an ethical problem is an enormous practical error and tragedy.

Although a few people have acknowledged that climate change must be understood as an ethical problem, the practical significance for policy formation that follows from this recognition appears to be not widely understood.

From the standpoint of the twenty - year negotiations, Cancun was another failed attempt to forge a global solution to climate change, a failure that must be understood as an ethical failure of the those nations most responsible for climate change.

Not exact matches

And as I suggested recently with regard to the Ray Rice scandal, cases involving famous men doing awful things don't necessarily help us understand the ethical subtlety of the more general problem of whether to fire employees who do bad things off the job.

Rather you need to understand that when we say your god if immoral we are working with ethical premises that do not involve your god as a basis for defining morali and then on our ethical systems (which are not all the same) we are deeming your god immoral.

Whitehead did work out a complex theory of value, but my point here is only to indicate that Whitehead's way of understanding human beings as part of nature both requires that we extend the ethical discussion and gives us clues as to how to do this.

And so far as we understand that the whole of Christ's work is a work of liberation — of our liberation from sin, death, concupiscence, fatality (and from ourselves)-- we shall see that violence is not simply an ethical option for us to take or leave.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

The fact that some animals can not reason or talk in language we understand should be as irrelevant to us as is the fact that some humans in relation to whom we have ethical obligations — severely retarded children, for example — can neither reason nor talk.

But we have an obligation to understand it, both its ethical aims, such as they are, and the methods it employs.

The agreement between black power and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the people.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

Wiesel, for whom memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in human beings, and who views memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability with enormous understanding and sympathy.

We can understand this failure as Percy's again having independently reached the same conclusion as MacIntyre: that the ethical can not be simply radically chosen, because the notion of the radical choice is itself only at home in the aesthetic mode.

Rather these traditional ethical values must be understood as the symbolic expression of what takes place when people stand in true dialogical relation to each other.

Regarding the Church and its self - understanding, the question is no longer simply when and by what authority the Church (as distinct from the individual Christian) should take a stance on ethical issues.

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.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

This qualification helps us to understand the great significance of intentionality as a factor in the assessment of the ethical value or merit of an act.

The history of God's dealings with Israel can no longer serve as the all - embracing horizon for our understanding of God, which must now be correlated with a greatly expanded world history, a scientific understanding of nature and man, and a drastically altered social and ethical situation.

Rather it is the key that encompasses everything, gives it meaning, interprets it and also provides its inner ethical orientation: making clear that it is to be understood and lived as tending towards God and proceeding from God.

This is not only the crux of the teaching of Jesus about forgiveness; it is also the key to understanding the «ethical» teaching of Jesus altogether: as men learn to live their lives in the context of their experience of the divine activity, so they must learn to live them in terms of the appropriate response to that activity.

it is a unity of doing and observing» which can be understood as four interrelated modalities: on one axis lies ritual and theatrical modes, on the other lies confessional and political (or ethical).

But weighty as the ethical issue of dishonesty is, a weightier one yet has to do with the minister's calling, vocation and self - understanding.

Moreover, the passage in Luke must be understood in such a way as to make it clearly evident that the knight of faith has no higher expression of the universal (i.e. the ethical) by which he can save himself.

One can not do justice to Charles Hartshorne's ethical system without taking seriously his particular understanding of experience as creative synthesis and his demand that one constantly confront the question of God.

To the extent that one fails to take seriously Hartshorne's particular understanding of experience as creative synthesis or his demand that one constantly confront the question of God, one can not do justice to his ethical system.

In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of vicarious sacrifice, and religious experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»

Certainly it is difficult for a society as divided as contemporary America to come to a shared understanding on fundamental ethical issues.

Augustine understood this when in the fifth century a convert asked him for a listing of his ethical obligations as a Christian.

We begin at this point because we are seeking to move inward from the periphery to the centre — that is, we begin with the attempt to understand the ethical teaching of Jesus as it appears within the framework of the thought of his contemporaries.

Against this widely prevailing understanding of the «creation faith» we suspect that in Yahwistic circles the very term «creation» may have been a dirty word and that the development and discussion of Israel's creation faith was suppressed as part of the long, anguished struggle against religious syncretism and the loss of the distinctly moral - ethical - historical character of the Yahweh faith.

Many differences in situation and opinion separated Jesus and Paul but with regard to the central ethical principle of whole - hearted reliance on the power and persuasiveness of sacrificial love, Paul, as the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians shows, understood Jesus very well.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

Although, no doubt, an aesthetic understanding of cosmic order is less than adequate also, I think that it is superior to and broader than the ethical model as an approach to understanding what may be meant by cosmic order or purpose.

«Understanding our world» and «what it means to be a part of the Church of Jesus Christ»: these to me constitute what is involved in «ethical and theological» considerations so that I hope that as I try to «understand», and to share the life of the Church I know and experience it, I am doing «ethical» and «theological» considerations.

We may note repeatedly in our own experience that with regard to many of our ethical feelings, intellectual understanding as to how we came to have them weakens their hold on us.

No longer can we live as if we were in an earlier age, when ethical teaching was either ignorant of what we now know to be the case or unwilling to give due recognition to human existence as we have come to understand it.

The core issues that properly concern theologians and pastors, as Cobb knows, have to do with the kind of theological - ethical glasses one wears as one attempts to discern the moral and spiritual meanings of the data, to see in what respects they comport with our deepest understanding of how God wants us to live in the world.

Course participants will gain an overview of the different forms of evaluation of work targeting fathers and methods that might be used in undertaking them; increased awareness on the kinds of agencies and professionals who might be involved in targeting fathers; understanding of the ethical issues, role of monitoring and other forms of record keep as part of the evaluation process; and understanding of the use of evaluative processes as part of organisational and project development

Thus the decision on whether to perform an elective cesarean delivery (also known as «patient choice cesarean» or «cesarean on demand») will come down to a number of ethical factors including the patient's concerns and the physician's understanding of the procedure's risks and benefits.

They must also have an understanding of ethical and legal issues and the ability to interpret research as well as having knowledge of infant growth parameters, child development, and how to use breastfeeding equipment, technology and techniques.

In their study of Mondragon, «Enabling Ethical Economies: Cooperativism and Class», J.K. Gibson - Graham argue that we should see economic life as diverse, and seek to understand how our multiple roles of worker, carer and citizen break down traditionally conceived boundaries.

(And while I understand your position on anonymous sources — it furthers your own poltical agend... sorry, I mean it's the ethical thing to do — could you at least number them so we know if the shadow cabinet member who told you things is the same one as last time, or a different one.

The quest to understand the brain is complicated, too, by the profound ethical questions that will inevitably arise as the science moves forward, from worries about the potential hacking of brain implants to the notion that technological advances will ultimately make mind control possible.

It is important to understand where hESCs come from in order to understand the ethical arguments that surround them, as well as their enormous, innate biological potential.

It made me cry as I understand all the ethical ponderings you went through.

While we understand many people follow specific diets for ethical or medical reasons and are 100 % completely supportive of that, there are also many people who follow these same diets as a way of controlling their weight or «eating clean».

As I understand your comments you are saying that such an oath SHOULD exist and SHOULD contain reference to ethical treatment of animals and the environment, which is just your opinion is it not?