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 | | I characterized the overall ethical framework in the //lam rim// tradition as teleological, but this definition seems to entail a consequentialist view, not to say a utilitarian one, since dreyfus.txt Page:43 practices are determined as ethical in relation to their results. | | | It concerns the overall ethical framework of the tradition as well as a limited range of important virtues involved in the practice of meditation, which are central to the tradition. | | | Meditation in particular becomes central to ethical life, understood as the development of the virtues or excellencies constitutive of human flourishing that is the goal of the Buddhist tradition. |
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http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/2/dreyfus.txt
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| | OpinionJournal - CULTURE CLASH |
| | This is evident in the Enlightenment's attack on tradition as outmoded superstition--an argument Hayek brilliantly demolishes. | | | A tradition's very oldness--its survival through the vicissitudes of centuries and adaptability to so many social and historical "environments"--was for him prima facie evidence that it was "fit" to survive, just as a species that has survived a variety of environmental challenges may be said to be "fit" in terms of the evolutionary struggle. | | | In the case of the tradition against incest, at the primary level it exists in the form of the commandments, injunctions, prohibition and so on, to keep brothers and sisters, or parents and children, from having sexual intercourse. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110006922
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| | Chemistry 80G, Winter 2003 |
| | China, Japan, and India, are embedded in ethical traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism, Shinto, Hinduism. | | | Ethical principles from religious traditions: Christian ethics, Buddhist ethics, Islamic ethics, Judaic ethics, Hindu ethics, Native American ethics... | | | Ethical traditions common to western and eastern cultures. |
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http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/teaching/Winter03/Chem80G/notes0109.html
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| | The Institute of Ismaili Studies: Full Text of “Islamic Ethics” by Azim Nanji |
| | The Ethical Tradition in Islam is a study of diverse approaches to ethical and moral values. | | | Among the Shi'a continuity with Muslim tradition and values thus remains tied to the continuing spiritual authority vested in the Imam or his representatives. | | | A rich tradition of poetry in praise of the Prophet exists in virtually all the languages spoken by Muslims, enhancing both the commitment to emulate his behaviour and a sense of personal affinity and love for his person and family. |
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http://www.iis.ac.uk/learning/life_long_learning/islamic_ethics/islamic_ethics.htm
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| | CHAPTER IV |
| | This tradition and its ethos are the subject matter of the following axil-interpretation, according to the extant Confucian texts, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. | | | Traditional Chinese cul-ture does not appeal to fanatical religious passions, but assimilates diverse alien cultures. | | | Consequently, it is their destiny to be en-gaged with the Confucian ethical spirit. |
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http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-12/chapter_iv.htm
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| | Center for Public Leadership PUBLICATIONS CONVERSATIONS on LEADERSHIP 2002 Roundtable 3: "Ethics and Leadership" |
| | They were wary, however, of ethical leadership that is based in a particular religious or spiritual tradition and that calls upon that tradition for moral authority in public decision-making. | | | Participants expressed a preference for leaders who view their religion or spirituality as one resource among others in their exercise of leadership, and who understand and appeal to the ethical frames of reference of not one but many different traditions. | | | Fluker believes that leaders should be spiritually disciplined and morally anchored in a significant ethical tradition if they are to succeed in negotiating the traffic between everyday worlds and the larger systems of human activity. |
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http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/ethics_and_leadership.html
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| | Human Cloning: Religious and Ethical Debate |
| | Their religious and ethical tradition informs this viewpoint which is largely based on their interpretation of the creation story. | | | Ethical arguments are based on more general guidelines for behavior that do not stem from any particular religion. | | | Religious arguments are based largely on the traditions and scriptures unique to each faith. |
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http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jones/tmp352/projects98/group1/ethic.html
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| | CHAPTER XIV |
| | This response is chiefly anchored in ethical knowledge, that is, in the participant's "understanding of an ethical tradition's significance for coping with novel or exigent circumstances. | | | A living tradition is enriched by its historical past and interpreted by members of the community as having a present significance. | | | Although its vision is universal in the sense that it encompasses all things in the universe, its focus on the continuing significance of a living tradition smacks of provincialism or relativism. |
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http://www.crvp.org/book/Series04/IVA-7/chapter_xiv.htm
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| | Studies of the Lutheran Ethical Tradition |
| | Hoffman, Bengt R. “Lutheran Spirituality.” In Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church, eds. | | | On the Reformation and the Tradition as a Whole | | | Senn, Frank C. “Lutheran Spirituality.” In Protestant Spiritual Traditions, ed. |
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http://www.elca.org/dcs/studieslet.html
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| | Ethical relationship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Visotzky exploits much of the Talmudic, midrash and magisterium, demonstrating that these Jewish theological traditions too had often focused on the ethical relationship, not only between Man and God, but between others in one's family, tribe or community. | | | As contrasted to theories of ethics that derive from social dispute resolution, or the meta-ethics as defined in Western moral philosophy, ethical traditions emphasizing abstract moral codes expressed in some language with some judgemental hierarchy, ethical relationship theories tend to emphasize human development. | | | An ethical relationship, in most theories of ethics that employ the term, is a basic and trustworthy relationship that one has to another human being, that cannot necessarily be characterized in terms of any abstraction other than trust and common protection of each other's body. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_relationship
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| | Learning for a Better World: What has "Ethical Investing" to do with Ethics? |
| | What traditional theology reminds us is that seeing more evil than there is is not a zeal to be commended but itself a fault. | | | Perhaps ethical investment should be called "scrupulous investment", leaving it ambiguous as to whether that word be used in its common or its theological sense. | | | Ethical investment as currently codified gives a heroes and villains picture of the economic world with some investments portrayed as ethical and others portrayed as not. |
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http://www.bwz.com/BWZ/9604/learn3.htm
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| | Table of Contents: New York Society for Ethical Culture |
| | Ethical Culture is a humanistic religion based on the ideal that the supreme aim of life is working to create a more humane society. | | | The festival is devoted to new compositions that transcend individual religious traditions and express the unconditional love of God for all humanity. | | | The New York Society for Ethical Culture is a member of the American Ethical Union and the International Humanist and Ethical Union |
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| | Ethical Wills |
| | An ethical will offers an opportunity to pass on family traditions, personal beliefs that you value, forgiveness and blessings, and practical advice for everything you’ve learned since kindergarten. | | | Baines says the two handwritten pages that comprised his father’s ethical will meant more to him than any material possession he could have received. | | | An “ethical will” is quite different from your “last will and testament.” Unlike the latter, an ethical will doesn’t require a lawyer, or that you be a certain age. |
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http://www.irmc.org/body.cfm?id=121
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| | Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction Conference at MHC |
| | In order to ensure full coverage of the disagreements within the broadly defined ethical traditions, a respondent is asked to provide a critique of the presenter's paper, to develop points neglected in that paper, and to explore alternative moral positions. | | | Each ethical tradition is discussed in each session, with the presenter and respondent alternating as spokespersons. | | | A discussion follows the presentation of each tradition, and the conference concludes with an overview of how the traditions deal with the themes of the conference. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/042001/weapons.shtml
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| | Moral Vision and Tradition |
| | Cua explains the idea of a living, Confucian, ethical tradition and highlights the problem of interpreting the cardinal concepts of Confucian ethics as an ethics of virtue. | | | This is not to say that Cua has given us the final word on Confucianism, either as historical tradition or as contemporary moral vision. | | | The book presents a genuine, technically developed, philosophy of life and culture and uses both the Chinese and Western traditions as its resource texts for discussion. |
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| | Princeton Ethical Humanist Fellowship Homepage |
| | In the Ethical Culture tradition, these meetings are called Platform Meetings, because they offer Ethical Culture Leaders and others a platform from which to present ethical ideas, information and analysis of significant ethical issues. | | | Ethical Culture is a 127-year-old humanistic religious and educational movement inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society. | | | The Fellowship should help its members understand that how people relate to one another is the greatest concern of ethical humanism, should help them present Ethical Culture ideas to others, and should work to improve relationships among people in society at large. |
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| | comments133 |
| | The clash is not between two great traditions of ethical thought. | | | In this firmly consequentialist political culture, deontology (traditional, non-consequentialist ethics, such as the Ten Commandments) is often perceived as, at best, quaint and, at worst, arrogant, aggressive, even immoral. | | | He further claims that “The process vs. product view is important to the ethical analysis, because the two views neatly map onto the distinction between consequentialist and non-consequentialist ethics.... |
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| | T.H. Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism |
| | This book uncovers the philosophical foundations of a tradition of ethical socialism best represented in the work of R.H. Tawney, tracing its roots back to the work of T.H. Green. | | | The book shows how Tawney adopted the key features of the idealists' philosophical settlement and used them to help shape his own notions of true freedom and equality, thereby establishing a tradition of thought which remains relevant in British politics today. | | | Green and his colleagues developed a philosophy that rejected the atomistic individualism and empiricist assumptions that underpinned classical liberalism and helped to found a new political ideology based around four notions: the common good; a positive view of freedom; equality of opportunity; and an expanded role for the state. |
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| | The Debate Link: Tradition...TRADITION! |
| | I suppose one could find inconsistencies and contradictions within the tradition, in which case the purpose of ethical inquiry is to "purge" the "impurities" which mar the tradition, but that doesn't address what we do when the superstructure itself is flawed. | | | For me, it means that in absence of any compelling reason to do otherwise, we default to tradition, but where other morally significant factors come into play (and individual choice counts here), then tradition is given a moderate, but not extensive, weight (on the basis of predictability and the "law of unintended consequences"). | | | It is no answer to assert that this injustice is of the type that justifies a break from tradition, for it is the very rhetoric of tradition, its pragmatism and inertia, that is the cause of people looking away when they otherwise would act. |
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Ethical Wills . December 26, 2003 PBS |
| | But today, more and more Americans are resorting to another kind of will, a so-called ethical will that began as an oral tradition and has its roots in the Bible. | | | Ethical wills are letters written by anyone at any age to anyone, but mostly to children and grandchildren, expressing the writers' values, blessings, faith, life's lessons and stories, and sometimes instructions. | | | And in the New Testament in the Gospel of John, Jesus' departing advice to his disciples was a kind of a ethical will. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week717/feature.html
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| | Ethical Wills: Preserving Your Legacy of Values |
| | References to this tradition are also found in the Christian Bible (John Ch. | | | The Hebrew Bible first described ethical wills 3000 years ago (Genesis Ch. | | | Today, ethical wills are being written by people at turning points in their lives: facing challenging life situations and at transitional life stages. |
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| | RELATIVISM |
| | Ethical relativism itself is not an ethical belief. | | | Ethical nihilism does have one problem in common with ethical relativism: if you are an ethical nihilist, then you are committed to having no ethical beliefs at all, not even beliefs like the one about torturing children cited in the previous paragraph. | | | Cultural relativism seems to give plausible answers to ethical questions only in a culture (utterly unlike our own) which is homogeneous, unreflective, unchangeable and free of serious moral disagreements. |
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| | Judeo-Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Jewish theologian-novelist Arthur A. Cohen questions the theological appropriateness of the term and suggests that it was essentially an invention of American politics. | | | Judaism and Christianity have many areas of agreement, as well as sharply defined ethical and religious systems that are in some areas opposites. | | | Christianity dropped some fundamental Jewish practices, however, particularly the Jewish covenant on male circumcision, and its most significant early prophet, Paul of Tarsus, himself a Roman citizen, made a point of preaching to the gentiles of the Roman Empire, leading eventually to the religion's modern popularity. |
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| | Judeo-Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Others argue that this term is appropriate, since they believe all three claim monotheism and share many similar beliefs and traditions -- Christians believe in the Gospel, Jews believe in the Torah only (and not the Gospel) and do not recognize Jesus, while Muslims believe in the Torah, the Gospel and believe in Jesus. | | | Judaism and Christianity have many areas of agreement, as well as sharply defined ethical and religious systems that are in some areas opposites. | | | In The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Jewish theologian-novelist Arthur A. Cohen questions the theological appropriateness of the term and suggests that it was essentially an invention of American politics. |
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| | Thursday Theology - THE PROMISE OF LUTHERAN ETHICS -- Back to the Decalogue? |
| | And even with these two, the second one finally steamrollers over the first in Huetter's conclusion (curiously labelled "The End"): "Christian ethics in the tradition of the Reformation serves the remembrance of God's commandments and the interpretation of. | | | New Testament ethical admonition summarizes the substance, the Gestalt, of Christian freedom as having Christ as master and being led by the Spirit. | | | To this Huetter adds a fourth corrective for the fallacy: his own reading of Luther that combats today's ethical antinomianism [=no place for law whatsoever] whereby the Reformer is shown linking Christian freedom to God's commandments in his own theological ethics. |
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| | GODS FIRE: CHAPTER SIX: THE CHARISMA OF MOSES |
| | Although I believe that I have proven Yahweh to be in one sense an electrical engineering system, in the broad sense Yahweh stands for an integrated social system, a religion replete with a tradition in Genesis, a priesthood, a mobile cathedral, and a host of ordinances. | | | A second set of Mosaic inventions is religious: the new Covenant of Yahweh with Israel which he "negotiated;" the idea of a Constitution of morality: the Decalogue of Commandments; and the Code of Laws [62]. | | | Yahweh was supposed actually to have written the first set of tablets of the Decalogue. |
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| | FT February 2002: A Century of Skepticism |
| | Gilbert Harman puts it this way: If we suppose that beliefs are to be justified by deducing them from more basic beliefs, we will suppose that there are beliefs so basic that they cannot be justified at all. Traditional images of human reasoning portray the most important of our beliefs as the least justified. | | | The current ethical skepticism of American law schools (in both its utilitarian and lawaspower varieties) mirrors the skepticism of the academy as a whole. | | | Without the possibility of God, writers like Posner see no escape from their moral skepticism, yet their viewpoint falsifies everyday human experience as much as it does religious tradition. |
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| | Ethical Decision Making |
| | Effects will be positive, negative, or neutral in light of PHS Mission and Core Values, the PHS Operating Principles, and the wider Catholic moral tradition (e.g., official church teaching documents; | | | Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services | | | Any ethical decision making process is enhanced by education and experience, and thus board members are encouraged to spend time reading and discussing this document before using it. |
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http://www.providence.org/phs/ethics/resources/decision_boards.htm
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| | Catholic Intellectual Tradition - Sacred Heart University |
| | education is the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT), which is characterized by rigorous scholarship and a commitment to spiritual and ethical values. | | | With its emphasis on the liberal arts, this tradition is concerned with the development of the whole person as he or she prepares to achieve success within a chosen profession while reaching out to those in need, especially the poor, and assuming responsibility for making the world a better place. | | | If one is to engage the world and shape its future in light of one's beliefs, then it is essential to recognize and respond to the voice of God speaking through the signs of the times. |
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http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/234_catholic_intellectual_tradition.cfm
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| | Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture |
| | "What is nontheistic religion?" is the seemingly paradoxical question underlying this discussion of Ethical Culture and the older tradition of humanism in which it originated and evolved. | | | Written by a former Leader, this is part testimony but mainly a look at this movement's birth in 1876 and subsequent growth, as well as a sound discussion of its tenets: faith in the human personality as ultimately valuable and commitment to a mutually responsible ethical lifestyle, as distinct from obedience to divine commands. | | | From Reform Judaism to Ethical Culture: The Religious Evolution of Felix Adler (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College, No. 5.) |
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