Sentence examples for systems of ethics from inspiring English sources

Such questions assume that most people have well-developed personal systems of ethics.

A nameless narrator tells us that, on an interview program about ethics, she heard that "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" is the concept that underlies all systems of ethics.

But if the sign of a Christian country is that "our main systems of ethics" and "the values of society" have been "shaped and founded on Christianity", then it is.

"It is a historical fact (perhaps unwelcome to some, but true) that our main systems of ethics, the way we do law and justice, the values of society, how we decide what is fair, the protection of the poor, and most of the way we look at society … All have been shaped by and founded on Christianity".

Third, and of greater philosophical significance, it seems to me that there is an ultimate disconnect, although it is difficult to make this very precise, between the concept of "evil," on the one hand, and the notion of what is "bad" in typical Western systems of ethics, on the other.

Ways of living life that aren't called "religious," such as atheism, are generally also systems of ethics, only with a different set of beliefs, which are often more heavily founded on observation and reason.

Instead, with knowledge already possessed, we propose engineering a reasonably tractable and enforceable system of ethics compatible with current human ethical sensibilities without unnecessary intractable claims, requirements and research projects.

In fact, the concluding section 12 of the System of Ethics is taken almost exclusively from this earlier work, where the ethical incentives were formulated as three moral oughts.

Russell's letter of thanks points out a problem: "any system of ethics which claims objectivity can only do so by means of a concealed ethical premise, which, if disputed, cannot be demonstrated" (Dear Bertrand Russell: 98).

According to one theory, a system of ethics flows from the bottom up, emerging from the network of agreements we make in everyday life.

George's thinking draws on a system of ethics first developed against the backdrop of the 1960s debate inside the Catholic Church over contraception.