Sentence examples for ethical aspirations from inspiring English sources

Any consistent conception of social justice is compromised by the perceived need to scale one's ethical aspirations in accordance with assumed (economic) constraints and imperatives.

The pact, if it did exist, undermines the ethical aspirations of many Silicon Valley firms, as epitomized by Google's unofficial "Don't be evil" motto.

Wrote the first book in Hebrew on civics, and continued to develop the linked themes of belief, national purpose, high ethical aspirations and self-criticism in his many articles and books.

Until these concerns are addressed, The Co-operative Bank will fall short of its ethical aspirations, despite a progressive approach to lending that still places it leagues ahead of the UK's biggest banks".

Furthermore examining the analogy with open source informatics in detail shows its limitations: while experiments of synthetic biology might become much more collaborative and modular, there are clear limits when considering its open source model as policy advice or a wider variety of restrictions on the usage of DNA that might need to be removed in order to realize its ethical aspirations.

Our interest here is in authors focusing on the institutional possibility of cosmopolitan citizenship, rather than on authors who use this ideal "to remind citizens of the unfinished moral business of the sovereign state and to draw their attention to the higher ethical aspirations which have yet to be embedded in political life" (Linklater 1999, 36).

Contrary perhaps to Nussbaum, my proposal does not suggest that even an expanded conceptualization of personal agency (e.g. one involving emotional and interpersonal well-being as well as rational decisionmaking capability) should be the ultimate ethical aspiration.

Our point here is that, rather than rejecting the value of patients' rights from the perceived but often stereotyped Chinese-Western cultural differences, the rights approach can be one of ethical aspiration to reform the certain conventional cultural practices and revive the vital but misrepresented traditional Chinese moral ideas and ideals.

And it is a research method as it helps collecting data about underlying ethical assumptions and aspirations of individuals and groups engaged in developing technology.

In addition to its descriptive properties, the terminology of civil society carries a litany of ethical and political aspirations and implications.

Today women speak of work-life balance as an ethical imperative; an aspiration that strongly influences how they think about and arrange their lives.