That is never
the way ethical systems are born or cultural taboos formulated, nor is that the way the Ten Commandments came into being.
Not exact matches
In his latest book, The Third Plate, chef Dan Barber of New York's Blue Hill restaurant argues that diners must look at a new, more
ethical way of eating that reflects the actual costs of our agricultural
system.
Exorcizing the concept «God» from the
system leaves me in a stance very similar to that of Paul van Buren, who holds that the essence of Christianity is an
ethical message about how to live a life and that «God» talk is a dated, misleading, unhelpful, obscure
way of saying what Christianity wants to say about what it is to be a man and to live a moral life.
On a philosophical level we can use the relationship of the tree and the boy as a
way to remind ourselves of the very different judgments produced by utilitarian and deontological
ethical systems.
Metz shows in this
way how Christian practice gains its distinctive character, It is not dependent on determining what is most appropriate from a general
ethical system.
Food sovereignty asserts the right of peoples to nourishing and culturally appropriate food produced and distributed in ecologically sound and
ethical ways and their right to collectively determine their own food and agriculture
systems.
Ensuring everyone has access to nutritious and culturally - appropriate food produced in
ethical and ecologically sound
ways, and their right to democratically determine their own food and agriculture
systems.
Food sovereignty asserts the right of peoples to nourishing and culturally - appropriate food produced in
ethical and ecologically - sound
ways, and their right to collectively determine their own food and agriculture
systems.
«One of the things I learned from Ross Perot (during her time at Perot
Systems Corp.) was that you play at the center of the
ethical playing field and if you can see the sidelines, you are
way too close.
With deep, involving
ethical questions, and
systems that test players beyond their ability to pick the right gun, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is — in many, many
ways — a game for thoughtful players.
Doing ethics this
way brings clarity to the debate which our readers seem to support and help to eliminate from consideration positions that no
ethical system would support thereby allowing compromise among positions that are ethically supportable.
It is an
ethical decision of ones own concience, to choose to break ones word, but there is also a wholesale and powerful imbalance in the
way the
system works, and the individual can end up with no real power or ability to change something they may see as a corrupted process touted on their individual trust.
Recognition of the importance of these types of
systems — sometimes called «
ethical infrastructure» — is reflected in current Canadian law society explorations of new forms of entity regulation and proactive
ways to help law firms deploy better management
systems.
Put another
way, because lawyers are obligated to adhere to the
ethical rules to protect clients, finding out what their
ethical obligations are is «part of what clients and the legal
system expect lawyers to do, serves to reinforce
ethical behavior, and informs future conduct.»
I saw a regulatory framework that looks at management
systems and what legal ethicists call «
ethical infrastructures,» and I saw that it really gives you a
way to get to the cultural influences that have an impact on the behavior of lawyers in law firms.
This will allow the firm, in whatever
way it thinks is most appropriate, to review its management
system and
ethical guidelines to determine how they can be improved.
The term «
ethical infrastructure» (coined by Ted Schneyer, a law professor at the University of Arizona) is just a fancy
way of talking about the
systems, procedures and policies that a law firm has in place to ensure that lawyers properly discharge their
ethical duties.
Individuals, organisational
systems, and culture mesh together in different
ways to increase or reduce
ethical risk.
In the event that states adopt a new CCW protocol on lethal autonomous weapons
systems — where talks have been underway since 2014 and another round is due in April — the report states that «it will be natural for autonomous weapons to be added to the list of weapon types that provide grounds for the exclusion of companies under the Fund's
ethical guidelines, in the same
way as it has done» before.