Sentences with phrase «with ethical people»

His administration was stocked with ethical people who had impeccable credentials and a constant flow of creativity.

I shall deal only with ethical persons and will sell or procure Komondorok only for those whom I believe will provide proper care for the dog.

Not exact matches

An ethical identity intersects with each decision empathic people make throughout their lives.

Rather than focusing on pledges, businesses should make sure that managers comply with their fiduciary and ethical responsibility to maximize the wealth of the people who pay their salaries — i.e., the shareholders.

You can see the ethical dilemma in a basic - income experiment: You're toying with people's financial health, and, by judging your endpoints based on feelings, you're tinkering with and assessing human behavior.

A person with an ethical compass would easily come to the conclusion that you shouldn't let people invade other people's privacy, but Zuck's religion is removing friction.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world with more than three million members and supporters.

As with most changes it takes a while for people to approve of a new norm and while it may make things difficult / uncomfortable for soldiers in the near term it will create a better, more ethical government organization in the long run.

Bernard Coughlin, S.J., title this collection of essays «Letters to Young People,» because it would inform and challenge college - aged students who are grappling with philosophical, spiritual, political, and ethical questions for the first time.

It has never been considered ethical to manipulate and interfere with natural operations of the body unless it posed a threat to a person's health.

If a person is intellectually honest, inquisitive about the universe, ethical, kind, and compassionate, the person will arrive at a set of behaviors consistent with what we call «good».

«I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: «Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Some people see simply no ethical problem at all with destroying embryos for research, and for them the study of embryos for its own sake is certainly worth public support (we support all kinds of basic research after all, rightfully so, and this basic research could be of more value than most).

Pope Benedict XVI offers a way forward in his reflections in Jesus of Nazareth, saying that being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice but of an encounter with a person which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Moral and ethical dilemmas become opportunities for the church to express its care by its willingness to sit with people in the midst of turmoil and despair.

It's not easy to be with people in the midst of intense feelings, uncomfortable situations, and serious disagreements about moral and ethical decisions.

To the person concerned with the ethical dimension of living it is not satisfying simply to say that alcoholism is a sickness, implying that the ethical issue has thereby been eliminated.

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

He seems obsessed with the idea that because people don't all agree with him on issues such as gay marriage that it is essential we all look to the bible to figure out what's ethical and moral, and all assume that it is the final word on what's right or wrong.

(I'm guessing if I met her she might well be the kind of person who volunteers at a food pantry, runs a business with high ethical standards, sends money each month to an orphanage in Guatemala, and prays regularly for a neighbor stricken with a terminal disease.)

People who have left the church because they've gone down some sort of slippery ethical slope are not the ones talking about their experiences and sharing with other Christians outside the church or even making it known that they ARE still Christians, but there are a great many Christians who don't go to a formal church service.

I don't think the reason most people leave churches has anything to do with not believing they can become more holy or with wanting to live by different ethical standards.

Of course, people who stunt both their intellectual and ethical development with religion are around, too.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

By the examples above taken from the Jewish reading of the Old Testament regarding ethical considerations towards peace and reconciliation, it is evident that there are learnings from the encounter with people of other religious traditions.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

Aristotle considered (prime) matter to be unintelligible andnon - being» Fourth, developments in genetic engineering will pose a challenge both ethically and metaphysically in the way man deals with attempts to manipulate life (and change it) via cloning, hybrids, and the integration of human (organic) and machine technology (via nano - technology); issues of conscience, soul, purpose, intelligence, memory and morality will require the Church to articulate competently its understanding of the human person in order to provide an ethical voice.

Because ethical choices affecting other people do arise frequently in science, a number of authors have called for an extension of the Hippocratic Oath which for centuries has been associated with medicine.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

As for Pastor Mike and his atheist registry, like so many other strongly religious people I've encountered, he's equating religion with morality, as if, without religious belief (the right religious belief), you are incapable of possessing and living by a moral / ethical code.

Most people live by the ethical rules of their community with minor modifications and infringements, but the vast majority adhere to the norms of their birth or acquired ethical system and community.

@Acroyear I was with you until you called christians «ordinary ethical and loving human being» they are the most intolerant, narrow - minded, self - righteous people on the planet.

«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»

mental health enhancing worship should «speak the truth in love,» confronting the worshiper with the ethical demands of the Christian way, and helping him develop those energizing relationships with persons and God which will enable him to respond creatively to these demands.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

But sooner than we might think, the term «quality of life» will be cropping up in popular medical / ethical articles about people who are not dying but who have either been born with severe physical birth defects or have sustained severely debilitating injuries, such as quadraplegia.

Questions of calling were being played out among people who in some cases pieced together two or three part - time jobs, and who, with less time for leisure and contemplation, were making ethical and moral decisions that rendered absurd our late - night conversations at the student coffee shop.

Maybe atheists are more monolithic than both, but I doubt it, since I have a friend who is atheist, and she is ethical, kind, not offensively profane, and civil to people who disagree with her, unlike some of the atheist posters on this thread.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

One can not help but agree with Stanley Hauerwas («Honor in the University,» February) that ethical behavior comes about through virtuous people, not through the study of ethics in particular circumstances.

In recent years, both through theological - ethical reflection and through personal friendships with some remarkable gay persons, I have become increasingly convinced that the positions of both Barth and Thielicke inadequately express the implications of the gospel on this issue.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

Section IV of chapter 3 is taken up with a detailed analysis of this ethical problem, and of its parameters, and in particular, a thorough biological analysis of the continuity / discontinuity question is presented: «whether to claim that [biological findings] teach us about an embryo's essential continuity withand similarity to human beings at other stages of life, or to argue that they reveal profound and morally meaningful discontinuities between embryos and live - born persons.»

His treatises include works on Marriage, on Confirmation, and on the Holy Communion, and his ethical and devotional writings take up the principles of spiritual guidance as a pastor might want to know them in dealing with others, as well as assisting priest or people in their own inner life.

The pacific aspects of Christianity proved no deterrent to a warlike folk who saw in Peter the doughty knight with his broad sword cleaving clean the ear of the high priest's servant.27 The ethical demands of the gospel were laid with emphasis upon unbridled peoples, witness the early development of the penitentials.

Its composition makes it especially suitable for use by people with dietary, ethical, or religious reasons to avoid eggs.

To be clear, other than the size of the loan — which is way out of the normal range for a typical Apollo loan — nothing on its face suggests anything nefarious... but at the very least, there are some ethical questions with Kushner using the White House as a place to have meetings with people that then turn around and invest in Kushner's private business ventures.

We just knew she would be the perfect person to share with us a more ethical side of Christmas, so we asked Hannah to choose her favourite pieces made by Folksy designers and makers, and create a pin board.Her beautiful board is a mix of natural festive decorations, ethical finds and brilliant Folksy gifts, we know you will love it as much as we do...

Baby Milk Action protested to the Fairtrade Organization that the awarding of a seal of ethical approval to a company with such a disgraceful ethical record could only be misleading to the public and would hardly contribute to the welfare of the impoverished people of the world.