Sentence examples for language ethics from inspiring English sources

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe -- known by her initials or as Elizabeth -- was a dry, fresh and formidable thinker, one of the foremost philosophers of mind, language, ethics and action.

The general trend in classification in the Middle Ages is exemplified by Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum majus, which was arranged in three sections: "Naturale"—God, the creation, humankind; "Doctrinale"—language, ethics, crafts, medicine; "Historiale"—world history.

The "whip approach" defines the humanities according to the clustering of academic disciplines, such as classics, philosophy, history, literature, languages, ethics, comparative religion, and criticism.

As child and adolescent psychiatric care staff appeared to lack a language of ethics, they probably need both an education in ethics and a forum for discussing ethical issues.

It seems that staff members lack a language of ethics and require both an ethical education and a forum for discussion of ethical issues.

"If we seriously thought that our intentions made no difference to how we behave, we couldn't go on using the language of ethics.

Ever the diplomat, he couches his positions in the language of ethics and craft a mode consistent with this being the final book in his Homo Faber trilogy, which examines man as craftsman.

But more important, he believes in the power of cultural evolution -- all the nongenetic changes that human societies and individuals undergo, from decade to decade and moment to moment, including changes in language, technology, ethics, behavior, alliances, enmities, schemes and visions.

The professor of logic at Leeds University (1966-81), and subsequently professor emeritus, he was admired by philosophers for his mastery of that discipline, and his contributions to the philosophy of language and ethics, while also acclaimed by Cardinal Cahal Daly, the archbishop of Armagh, for his fidelity to divine revelation, and awarded the papal medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (1999).

And having the first black president, making a clean break with our racist past, electing the literal opposite of W. Bush, turning to a man who speaks the language of ethics, these are all reasons why the Obama presidency has a real chance to change the disastrous course America is on.

It is for precisely these reasons that we must move beyond the authors' language of ethics 'at the bedside'.