Of all the mainstream ethical models pragmatism is the only approach that expressly acknowledges that the results of our decisions may either conflict with or harmonize with our values.
Finally, it is evident that our current mainstream political, economic, and ethical models are not up to the task of reaching global consensus, and in many cases not even national consensus, on how best to design and implement fair climate policies.
And now, after all those chuckles, their final laugh at him is how his case has shown that "ethical" models and "moderate" salaries are just as prone to complete implosion as any Bourbon-addled pre-Crash regime.
He added that the tournament was aimed at encouraging a more "ethical model of sportsmanship," as well as friendship, fair play and team spirit.
"The belief among ancient scholars," he said, "is that nature offers an ethical model that we should follow in human society.
"We strictly prohibit the use of child labour," said Marka Hansen, head of Gap North America.Since the beginning of the decade Gap has tried hard to be American retailing's ethical model.
What if we had let the visceral disgust some people once felt at seeing an interracial couple be the final word on interracial marriage?" A better ethical model, she suggests, might be one proposed by Bernard E. Rollin, at Colorado State: "conservation of welfare".
The ethical model can be based on traditional ethical theories, such as Kantian or utilitarian ethics depending on the preferences of its creators.
In other words, it can on the basis of an ethical model determine what would be the right thing to do, given certain inputs.
Another, similarly late book of the Mozi, "Models and Standards" (Book 4), continues to appeal to Heaven as an ethical model, though that text is likely the work of a different branch of Mohists.
We are, on the Chinese view, as blindsided by our belief that democracy is the best form of government for all as the first practitioners of democracy, the ancient Athenians, who likewise believed that they stood as a political, cultural, and ethical model to the rest of Greece.
