Sentences with phrase «with modern ethics»

christians, embarrassed by disgusting and evil commands like that, make excuses for the bible in order to bring it up to date with modern ethics.

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The unknowability of the Commandments lies in the epistemological terra incognita of modern and postmodern thought, which denies a human capacity to know anything with certainty in ethics or morality.
In some bible versions, «slaves» has been replaced with «servants» to make it more palatable to our modern (and much improved since the bronze age) sense of ethics.
I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).
As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.
Hopefully, radical theology is truly apolitical and nonethical, if responsible ethical and political action are identified with the established forms of modern Western politics and ethics.
If we do not wish to be swept away with modernity's orientation essentialists, then we need to remind the world that our sexual ethics was never really at home in the modern framework anyway, and thus that our forsaking the framework need not lead to postmodern nihilistic libertinism.
It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.
The creator of light and darkness, of the good and of the evil instinct, of health and sickness, confronts modern man in the unity of his numinous ambivalence with an unfathomable power, in comparison with which the orientation of the old ethic is clearly exposed as an excessively self - assured and infantile standpoint.
American Catholicism, for example, may have developed a superior capacity for corporate success — both in business and in other large - scale organizations — by adapting the church's premodern and patriarchal ethic of solidarity to the disciplines of modern industrialization; but the Catholicism so created is hardly the same as that which the immigrants left behind, along with much of the rest of Europe's agrarian past.
The poll found a middling reviews for the ethics agreement struck in Albany, nor were they in agreement with Cuomo's claim the session was «the probably the most successful in modern history, the poll found.
Due to the increasingly technological nature of modern warfare, veterans today return home with not only determination and a solid work ethic — character traits of good scientists as much as of good soldiers — but also with technical and other important job - related skills.
Nevertheless, employers and universities alike are looking at well - rounded globally literate applicants, capable of not only mastering modern Knowledge such as engineering and entrepreneurship, social sciences and information literacy, but also are Skilled: creative, critical thinkers who are communicative and collaborative; display Character qualities: mindfulness, curiosity, courage, resilience, ethics and leadership; adapt and learn how to learn via Meta - Learning abilities with growth mindset and metacognition.
Mahagiri Villas Sanur keeps to local ethics of creativity and design, and hence blends nicely into the Balinese community and is riddled with luxury and style which is what the modern traveller with a bit to spend expects.
Dewi Sri Luxury Villa features the modern and mode ethic Balinese architectures with minimalist design to meet the expectation of luxurious living in the paradise island.
Comprised of multiple boxed beehives storing several thousand glass test tubes filled with everything from mundane debris to tiny yet fully realized art projects, the installation — accompanied by a soundtrack citing a seemingly endless list of contents — ponders modern culture's fixation on individual work ethic, systematic group labor and the cumulative effects of production en masse.
Stone worked with Italian artisans, and suggests that «combining modern thinking with a traditional, artisan ethic, results in works that are impressive in their bold forms, yet are so refined they almost glow with vitality».
There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.
Episode Info: Technology is pulling lawyers and law practices into the modern age but how can you, as a lawyer and business owner, use technology to improve you practice management while remaining compliant with the ethics rules?
Technology is pulling lawyers and law practices into the modern age but how can you, as a lawyer and business owner, use technology to improve you practice management while remaining compliant with the ethics rules?
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