Sentences with phrase «upon ethical principles»

Wherever the ethical principles «tip the balance» in favor of intervention, he argues, we must establish clear guidelines (again based upon ethical principles) for justifying the use of force.

My concern is whether our society is based upon ethical principles that foster justice, impartiality and honesty.

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Similarly, an organization is going to want to draw upon the relevant ethical principles, as well as its own basic ethical structure, consisting of things like its Code of Ethics and its Mission, Vision, and Values statements.

In calling upon the people to guide their lives by these ethical principles, Islam insists, in the main, that they should be moderate in all things, sparing themselves misery and not lowering their status in life.

The ethical principles which hitherto we have regarded as an appendage, superimposed more or less by our own free will upon the laws of biology, are now showing themselves — not metaphorically but literally — to be a condition of survival for the human race.

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

Lepard distinguishes between positivist legal traditions based upon «state - oriented» values (emphasizing state sovereignty) and the more dynamic human rights laws derived from common practices and understandings, including religio - ethical principles.

He has taken on the monumental task of rethinking the principles of humanitarian intervention within an ethical framework based upon «universal» religious tenets — universal because they are core values in all these religious traditions.

The self - assessment form that we are developing in Colorado is based upon ten principles for law firm ethical infrastructure.

The principles outlined below are specific standards, based upon the UDHR and other sources of human rights principles, for ethical conduct between Developers and Indigenous communities.