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.
Not exact matches
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.
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