Sentence examples for ethical meaning from inspiring English sources
His eccentrically poignant fictions speak, in part, to the concerns Max Weber raised in 1921 in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism": "In the United States, the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport.
Literature imposes, and not merely proposes, ethical meaning.
From this perspective, nourishing life thus takes on a deeper ethical meaning.
But Levinas had essentially one philosophical project: to interpret existence and transcendence in light of the birth of ethical meaning.
She examines the roles played by sociologists, repentant ex-student leaders, and the mainstream media in giving what was a political event a predominantly cultural and ethical meaning.
A particular version of this condition plays a central role in the theory of incentives, under the name of Maskin monotonicity (see e.g. Jackson 2001), but it can also be given an ethical meaning, in terms of neutrality with respect to changes in preferences.
The same act can have different ethical meanings depending on the motives that inspired it.
As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Ayesha Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history.
And in the United States, where the word compassionate, which carries specific ethical meanings in a Buddhist context, has been jingoistically linked to the word conservatism, Buddhism may need to rethink its self-presentation.
Few have much experience with verse, and almost none have read poetry that overtly wrestles with conscience and historical circumstance, as does Miłosz's, or, for that matter, poetry that requires its reader to work as hard as his does to understand both its literal meaning and its ethical import.
Wise humanising creativity (WHC) is creativity guided by ethical action, meaning it is mindful of its consequences and is empowering, offering far greater shared hope for the future than the competitive mentality that pervades most education systems.
