Sentence examples for rational ethics from inspiring English sources

Revelation has to be interpreted, therefore, in conformity with the dictates of rational ethics.

Medieval theories of moral reasoning have their origins in the moral theology of St. Augustine and the rational ethics of Aristotle.

When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics, they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind..

Socrates taught that there is a rational ethic that transcends the law of the state.

He did not devote his energies to trying to find a rational basis for ethics, nor was he occupied with teasing out moral puzzles.

Kant is supreme in his rational approach to ethics.

• To the Editor: The Obama administration's reversal of its stance on Medicare support of end-of-life planning is a triumph of political pressure over rational thought and medical ethics.

(To offer a view, in case anyone does not see the point, is to engage in a conversation, not to legislate or dictate terms. The simplest and least requirement governing responding views is that they need to respect the ethics of rational discourse, a lesson some CiF posters might do well to learn).

This variant of constructivism invokes the tradition of Ancient eudaimonism, and defines the good life in terms of virtuous rational agency (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, V 1 1129b2–7, III 4 113a32).

Wilson, the sociobiologist, holds that we must either base our ethics on rational, naturalistic science or acknowledge that to some extent we need help and guidance from a dimension beyond the purely natural.

In ethics, Rand argued for rational and ethical egoism (rational self-interest), as the guiding moral principle.