Sentence examples for of ethical tradition from inspiring English sources

• To the Editor: What Noah Feldman calls the "conscious decision to change" was not made out of a sudden awareness of ethical tradition, but under pressure from the civil rights and women's movements.

The debate over the reservists also evokes a tension in the ideal of the Zionist soldier: as the exemplar of Jewish ethical traditions, and the unflinching fighter who ensures the survival of his hunted people.

Although some scholars described Levinas's philosophical project as an attempt to "translate Hebrew into Greek"—that is, to reconfigure the ethical tradition of Jewish monotheism in the language of first philosophy he was a relative latecomer to the intricacies of Jewish thought.

To put it another way, Muslims remind their fellow citizens that one cannot simply get rid of older ethical traditions and replace them with a supposedly neutral rule of law or by impartial values formed in a free market.

In the United States, there has been a long religious and ethical tradition of opposition to war.

Finally, it might be useful to note that this brief discussion of the history of philosophical views of character indicates that character has played, or can play, an important role in a variety of western ethical traditions, from Greek virtue-centered views to Kantianism to utilitarianism to Marxism.

Ten years ago, Robinson published "The Death of Adam," a collection of bracingly contrarian essays whose common thread was a defense of the Puritan intellectual and ethical tradition.

Scholars have argued that before CSR migrated to a developing country context, there was a long-standing ethical tradition with distinctive connotations of responsible business behaviour (Visser et al., 2008).

"Populist capitalism of a type is very beneficial to the vast majority in our system, but an ethical tradition is needed to make it all work.

Those who belong to the first group assert that it is in judgments and decisions made on the bases of these common principles, and also based on the ethical traditions of medicine that the principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice may be discovered [ 37, 38].

The recognition in the African ethical traditions of all human beings as brothers by reason of our common humanity is indeed a lofty moral ideal that must be cherished and made a vital or robust feature of global ethics in our contemporary world.