Sustainability issues are generally expressed in scientific and environmental terms, as well as in ethical terms of stewardship, but implementing change is a social challenge that entails, among other things, international and national law, urban planning and transport, local and individual lifestyles and ethical consumerism.
(P4) thus captures the passive dispositions of ethical terms to be used as a result of a speaker or writer's more specific cognitive states about the properties or characteristics of an action, person, etc, and the terms' active dispositions to cause such cognitive states in an audience.
In these times, when we're starting to use serious resources to contemplate the creation of ethical frameworks for super intelligent AIs-to-be, we also should focus on creating ethical terms for the use of personal data and the personalization technologies that are powering the development of such systems.
I believe that in ethical terms mercy is of equal value, and sometimes is of higher importance.
She makes it clear that, in legal and ethical terms, the exchange of information does not entail attribution of parental rights and responsibilities to donors when a jurisdiction enacts laws providing for the release of such information (Cahn, 2012).
Finally, because the descriptive content of the declarative is relativized to a speaker, (P1) brings to the fore the speaker-relativity of the descriptive meaning of ethical terms, a point to which Stevenson returns on several occasions (e.g., 1944, 227 232).
Mackie seemed at pains to explain that his subjectivist view of ethical terms complied with Anderson's main concern.
Stevenson remained at Harvard as an instructor for three years until 1938, during which time three early essays were published in Mind: "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" (1937), "Ethical Judgments and Avoidability" (1938a), and "Persuasive Definitions" (1938b).
Jackson seeks to describe a reductive analysis of ethical terms that understands them as picking out the properties that play a certain role in the conceptual network determined by mature folk morality.
Models (P0a)–(P0d), then, are useful for reminding us that the "strict" meaning of ethical terms may include only its emotive meaning; if so, however, its descriptive meaning is strongly suggested and, thus, always remains in linguistic play.
In many conversations, the physical blight of the city was described in ethical terms, as a general failure of character originating in the leaders and spreading down through the population.
