• Moral relativism holds that morality is relative to the culture which produces it and that no universal principles of right or wrong can exist. (listverse.com)
  • They continue to challenge us to recognize that the total elimination of nuclear weapons is not only a security issue, but a moral, humanitarian and environmental imperative. (holyseemission.org)
  • Financial and ethical considerations in which default is not only feasable but perhaps even a moral imperative are ignored. (4closurefraud.org)
  • On the other hand the law is perceived as being representative of the ethical, cultural and moral values of the people. (ukessays.com)
  • I have a social, cultural and moral obligation to keep this little cultural canoe going until it becomes an ocean going museum. (saportareport.com)
  • The UN has a moral and ethical obligation to ensure that all children, regardless of their nationality, have access to quality education. (eurasiareview.com)
  • I'll start by saying that I agree that there exists a moral and ethical obligation to see to the well-being of our neighbors. (showmeinstitute.org)
  • Public school boards have an obligation to be open to public input at public meetings, on matters of concern to the parents and taxpayers of the board. (lifesitenews.com)
  • concern not just our own knowledge and beliefs but those of others, too and (2) that our epistemic obligations can be held collectively where the epistemic tasks cannot be performed by individuals acting in isolation, for example, when we are required to produce joint epistemic goods. (philpapers.org)
  • People are typically concerned with the welfare of their children, but what's at stake here is something quite different: the moral concern with the welfare of historically distant people living at some point in the future. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • And so, since our present actions will affect them, we do have a moral concern about the quality of their lives. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Many people believe that we have obligations with respect to future generations and that some of these obligations concern the state of the environment that we pass on to our descendants. (lu.se)
  • Saul Smilansky thinks that belief in contra-causal free will, which he concedes doesn't exist, is necessary to provide essential support for morality, meaning, and the worth of human beings. (naturalism.org)
  • This second part consists in a specific moral analysis of what we know (either intuitively or through patient study and examination) of specific objects or operations, such that through the direct application of reason we can formally articulate rules or laws, including rules and laws of morality. (catholicculture.org)
  • However, morality exists. (bible.org)
  • People should govern their behavior with permanent moral principles that cannot be altered simply by changing circumstances. (alleydog.com)
  • The present Guiding Principles are premised on the understanding that eradicating extreme poverty is not only a moral duty but also a legal obligation under existing international human rights law. (lu.se)
  • Bioethics can be defined as the systematic study of human conduct in the scope of life and health sciences examined under the light of moral values and principles 3 . (bvsalud.org)
  • To think of some of our obligations as joint or collective is the best way of making sense of our intuitions regarding collective moral action problems. (philpapers.org)
  • Fundamental intuitions about the nature of things and their moral reality are built into the human person. (catholicculture.org)
  • Beyond diplomatic and strategic considerations, there exists a moral obligation for the international community to act. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Therefore it must make ethical and moral considerations in order to make decisions that are in line with the welfare of the society. (ukessays.com)
  • Questions regarding the moral responsibility of Internet accessand service providers relating to information on the Internetcall for a reassessment of the ways in which we think aboutattributing blame, guilt, and duties of reparation andcompensation. (philpapers.org)
  • Once we see that our moral inclinations stem from our shared biological human endowment, honed by culture, we don't need the notion of ultimate responsibility or self-creation ex nihilo to back up our sense of ethical duty. (naturalism.org)
  • Conscience, as we all know, is the apparatus we humans use (I hope) to make our decisions, and it therefore carries a certain responsibility-an obligation, even-to which we must pay attention. (crisismagazine.com)
  • Expand the use of conscience to the more weighty things in the moral life and the responsibility we have to form a good conscience is enhanced in the same measure. (crisismagazine.com)
  • In order to protect our moral virtues, it's better to have the false belief that we have free will. (naturalism.org)
  • Values are guide when integrating a set of interests with another - often synonymous with ethics and "virtues" in health not values that exist separately in different communities care. (who.int)
  • While 20 th century British atheist, A. J. Ayer, dismissed moral judgments as meaningless grunts of emotion ("emotivism," 4 he called it), the new atheists want to occupy the high moral ground. (bible.org)
  • Humanitarian policies, like political asylum, exist to protect people who face true persecution at the hands of their own governments. (fairus.org)
  • Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations. (philpapers.org)
  • This book develops an original theory of collective moral obligations. (philpapers.org)
  • Where we have reason to believe that our efforts are most efficient as part of a collective endeavor we may incur collective obligations together with others who are similarly placed as long as we are able to establish compossible individual contributory strategies towards that goal. (philpapers.org)
  • How we fail to know: Group-based ignorance and collective epistemic obligations. (philpapers.org)
  • Collective moral obligations: 'we-reasoning' and the perspective of the deliberating agent. (philpapers.org)
  • Unsurprisingly, scholars have been finding the idea of collective moral obligations intriguing. (philpapers.org)
  • the moral deliberating agent who faces a collective action problem, i.e. the type of reasoning she employs when deciding how to act. (philpapers.org)
  • I hope to show that agents have collective obligations precisely when they are required to employ 'we-reasoning', a type of reasoning that differs from I-mode, best response reasoning, as I shall explain below. (philpapers.org)
  • More precisely, two (or more) individual agents have a collective moral obligation to do x if x is an option for action that is only collectively available (more on that later) and each has sufficient reason to rank x highest out of the options available to them. (philpapers.org)
  • To ensure the security of the state and its citizens , including by fulfilling collective security obligations through NATO. (basicint.org)
  • If naturalism is true, and we are all simply the product of nature, of blind evolution, and of genetic determinism, then how do genuine moral concerns arise? (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • With a commitment to a relational ontology, scholars from within the feminist care tradition of animal ethics have been able to theorize how our moral significance - as well as our moral obligations to others - arise from the metaphysical and empathetic 'entanglements. (lu.se)
  • 7. The convention which the Committee was engaged in drafting would be a very momentous document both by reason of its field of application and by reason of its great moral significance. (unhcr.org)
  • But the true existential significance of my death can only be appreciated from the first-person perspective, as I realize that I am going to die and forever cease to exist. (arcapologetics.org)
  • In addressing the question of how we empathetically fail to recognize the moral significance of animal suffering, most critical animal theorists employ a model of moral agency and consciousness that is at odds with the relational metaphysics that provides animals moral significance. (lu.se)
  • these nurses are primarily contracted to the pandemic intensified previously existing disparities, and DoH, and their nonpermanent affiliation with the DoBE children who were already at risk of being left out from (being the steward of schools) means their placement or visits quality education are among the most affected. (who.int)
  • The first concerns how to explain the connection between moral goodness and moral obligation. (routledge.com)
  • However, if this is not the connection between moral goodness and moral obligation then what is? (routledge.com)
  • These soul wounds have come to be termed "moral injury," and designate a psychic trauma resulting from doing, allowing to be done, or having done to you that which goes against deeply held normative beliefs (Litz, 2009). (episcopalchurch.org)
  • The Ambassador suggested that the nuclear responsibilities framework allowed for normative dimensions of nuclear policymaking (e.g. ethical, moral, political, technical, etc.) to be inserted into the conversation in a more dispassionate way, complementing and elucidating states' existing legal obligations. (basicint.org)
  • A main tenet of deontological ethics is that people should live by pre-existing moral obligations. (alleydog.com)
  • How, then, can a contract be made with people who don't yet exist? (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Swann will never exist in flesh and blood, but in the future, as-yet-unborn people will eventually exist - in the same way we do. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • For people living every single aspect of their lives imbued with all that is sacred, embodied by a basis of spirituality, linked by the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, there exists a mutuality of obligation. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • Charged with the sacred obligation to maintain the way we live, the Kit Fox Society of the Lakota Nation dedicated their lives to keeping all aspects of the people-the cultural consciousness-alive. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • As a result the government enforces the ethical and moral values of the people it governs. (ukessays.com)
  • This event springboards from the idea that there exists a moral obligation to empower young people and provide them with opportunities for climate action, to learn for sustainability and to re-connect with nature in supported, adult-guided contexts. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • As for a moral obligation, President Ronald Reagan based his entire foreign policy on a determination to free the captive people of Eastern Europe, culminating in his famous admonition to "Mr. Gorbachev -Tear Down this wall. (dickmorris.com)
  • People may be compelled to take action that has a positive outcome, but if they do so unwillingly it is merely obedience , with no moral value. (showmeinstitute.org)
  • Their acting in opposition to the solemn obligations under which they were to be the Lord's people, and to serve him, by the public national covenant which subsisted betwixt God and them, was one of the principal ways in which they had contracted great guilt, carried on rebellion against God, and incurred his displeasure. (truecovenanter.com)
  • and the happy effects of their religiously fulfilling their covenant obligations, they should be the Lord's people, he would be their God, and would perform the oath which he had sworn unto their fathers, in giving them the land of Canaan for an inheritance. (truecovenanter.com)
  • We have seen that COVID-19 fatalities are higher among people with pre-existing conditions including noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular and chronic respiratory conditions, cancer, and diabetes. (who.int)
  • It is the consciousness of moral meaning-that is, of the ends for which things exist and the means by which they may be rightfully directed or used-which makes persons unique (whether they are human, angelic or Divine), and which distinguishes them from animals. (catholicculture.org)
  • Scientific denial refers to a partial or total questioning of the main premises of scientific consensus: that climate change exists, that its causes are human-driven, that it is the most important challenge facing humanity, and that something can be done about it and we have the moral obligation to do it. (upf.edu)
  • Instead, we can safely make known the naturalistic facts about what it is to be human, while keeping and indeed improving our moral commitments and practices. (naturalism.org)
  • Russia and China may feel fine with making bad moral decisions when it comes to Syria, but even they don't like to make bad economic decisions. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The puzzle arises because it seems that in such cases there exist reasons that can make it permissible not to perform an action that is very good from the moral point of view but that do not make it permissible not to perform an act that is less good from the moral point of view. (routledge.com)
  • Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama's conference call, in which he tried to persuade faith leaders that the nation has "a core ethical and moral obligation" to make sure that everyone in America has access to health care. (showmeinstitute.org)
  • Alternatively, how the 2030 Agenda questions the current accountability framework and urges stakeholders to make adaptations in existing accountability systems was considered as well. (lu.se)
  • We have no legal or moral obligation to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity even as we surrender our own to the rest of the world, letting millions in in a single year. (dickmorris.com)
  • We have no legal or moral obligation to defend Ukraine? (dickmorris.com)
  • To fulfil all legal obligations , such as those that stem from being a signatory to the NPT, CTBT, NWFZ, Security Council resolutions, licensing regimes, export controls and other international agreements. (basicint.org)
  • This essay explores the role of global powers in addressing the education crisis faced by Afghan girls, emphasizing the moral obligation and diplomatic responsibilities that the international community bears. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The nuclear responsibilities framework exists to build international understanding, dialogue, and a shared culture of responsibilities around nuclear weapons. (basicint.org)
  • Yet because he is made in God's image, and lives in a moral world created by a personal, moral law giver, Dawkins cannot experientially accept the logical implications of such a position. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • In his chapter, "Free Will, Fundamental Dualism, and the Centrality of Illusion" in Robert Kane's The Oxford Handbook on Free Will (also online ), philosopher Saul Smilansky argues that although we don't have free will in the traditional libertarian, contra-causal sense, a widespread appreciation of this truth would constitute a dire threat to our moral commitments and practices. (naturalism.org)
  • In 1995, while I worked at the Clinton White House, we signed the Budapest Memo pledging "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine" and "to refrain from the threat or use of force" against the country. (dickmorris.com)
  • The following is a perspective on moral injury and the Just War tradition offered by It was prepared by Marc Livecche, Ph.D., the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at "Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy" and an expert in this field, with editorial assistance from Matt Gobush, member of the Church's Standing Commission on World Mission. (episcopalchurch.org)
  • Ethics and moral values have a great influence on the operation of the society. (ukessays.com)
  • While this project remains situated within a feminist care perspective on animal ethics, it nevertheless represents an attempt to reconcile the tension between a relational ontology and the framework used for explaining how and why humans fail to recognize other's moral standing. (lu.se)
  • The incorporation and interrelationship of teaching and pedagogical methods, practical areas and experience should include the appreciation of moral, ethical and legal precepts. (bvsalud.org)
  • comment on my last essay ( The Moral Obligation of Reality ), bservaes4399 explains that he does not see how my argument moves from what is to what ought to be. (catholicculture.org)
  • The campaign is intended as a broadside against a central evidence for God, the moral argument, classically one of four cornerstones for the case for God's existence. (bible.org)
  • But parsing out the details here is not as important as considering the ramifications of an objective moral obligation being present in the world. (crisismagazine.com)
  • With an objective obligation to do good and avoid evil comes a twofold duty necessarily imposed on us, first as agents of our own consciences, and second as potential influencers of the consciences of our neighbors. (crisismagazine.com)
  • For Kudo, growing willing to kill another human being results in a diminution of what it means to be a human being: "To properly wage war," he concludes, "you have to recalibrate your moral compass" (Kudo, 2013). (episcopalchurch.org)
  • The book concludes with a discussion of "massively shared obligations" to large-scale moral problems such as global poverty. (philpapers.org)
  • Organizational members often invest their actions at work with moral meaning. (emerald.com)
  • This thesis shows how approaches inspired by this assumption fail to recognize how empathy itself presupposes a relationship between our conscious experiences, and the conditions that exist in the environment or intersubjective encounter. (lu.se)
  • Similarly, we all have some understanding of what it means when something is "mine" or "yours", and of the moral obligations which flow from these realities. (catholicculture.org)
  • Similarly, this claim also contradicts the common logic maintaining a moral distinction between the human and nonhuman. (lu.se)
  • As a result the government has to establish and enforce ethical and moral standards so as to ensure that the society functions well. (ukessays.com)
  • This pilot study of the 'pharmabiome' shows the potential of environmental DNA as a powerful forensic tool to assist with the identification of the environments, and hence location and timing, of the source and manufacture of falsified medicines, establish links between seizures and complement existing tools to build a more complete picture of criminal trade routes. (bvsalud.org)
  • The basis of Native spirituality is the entirety of life, the interconnectedness of all, the whole manifest and order that unifies physical, conscious, moral and spiritual life. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • Under normal circumstances, it is the role of the government to ensure a just society where order and harmony exist. (ukessays.com)
  • It must be shown that the best interests of the child are served in order to change an existing order. (azlawhelp.org)
  • Under ARS 25-411 , a request may not be filed for one year from the date of the earlier order, unless there are special circumstances seriously endangering a child's physical, mental, emotional or moral health. (azlawhelp.org)
  • Satisfying obligation under order. (bvsalud.org)
  • Yet, there is little agreement among scholars on the nature of such obligations and on the extent to which their existence might force us to adjust existing theories of moral obligation. (philpapers.org)
  • An important issue related to existing examples of MOUs and MAAs is the extent to which they may constitute legally-binding contracts. (cdc.gov)
  • WHO would have lost all moral grounding should it chose to be a bystander in this crisis. (who.int)
  • The rule changes proposed by DOJ and DHS would ensure that the United States lives up to its moral and international obligation to protect those who are being politically persecuted, while preserving the integrity of our asylum policies and ending widespread abuse. (fairus.org)
  • Undisputed "moral" obligations have you feel guilty. (religiousworlds.com)
  • We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else's homeā€¦.No set of pre-existing cosmic rules. (bible.org)
  • An important limitation is that NC is likely a culture-specific concept, so cross-cultural research will be essential to fully develop a universally valid concept of morals-based work commitment. (emerald.com)
  • In other words it can be rightly said that the government serves to accomplish the people's perceptions of reality as represented in their ethical and moral values. (ukessays.com)
  • This makes the role of the government more complex not forgetting that not all values of ethical and moral consideration can be enforced by the government. (ukessays.com)
  • In fact, St. Joseph's Health Services, in effect ceased to exist and has not been involved in the operation of those hospitals either. (thericatholic.com)
  • Strengthening the existing health structure to avoid the collapse of the health system through capacity-building measures, referral system strengthening, infrastructure rehabilitation and the strengthening of data collection and information-sharing mechanism. (who.int)
  • In the story's worldline, there exists a magical realm beneath the surface of all things-referred to as the Twilight (or Gloom in other translations). (wikipedia.org)
  • But that temptation wouldn't exist if entrepreneurs didn't need to get permission from bureaucrats before building things such as hotels and golf courses. (fee.org)
  • The first part is that the nature of the human person is such that he not only observes and interacts with the physical structure of things but also with moral meaning. (catholicculture.org)
  • It is the innate faculty of conscience which calls this interior perception of a pre-existing law to our attention, approving our actions when we do good, and sounding an alarm when we contemplate or engage in evil. (catholicculture.org)
  • Meyer and Parfyonova, 2010) as having "two faces", indebted obligation and moral duty. (emerald.com)
  • Transgender children don't exist - this term was brought into being by a coalition of pressure groups and political activists. (lifesitenews.com)
  • It is necessary to study bioethics routinely in dentistry courses, especially because of the obscure points that still exist regarding the use of human teeth and the ethical and bioethical aspects associated with the subject 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Your friend's questions are quite thoughtful, and although there are many issues involved in this short section, the central one is that of the necessity of God's being good (which included being trustworthly and just) in His dealing with moral creatures. (christian-thinktank.com)
  • For though I know now that I exist, that I am alive, I also know that someday I will no longer exist, that I will no longer be, that I will die. (arcapologetics.org)
  • With this case in mind, my focus here is entirely on moral injury as it afflicts the moral agent. (episcopalchurch.org)
  • First, existing empirical research is inconsistent with Meyer/Parfyonova's theory of NC, as is their proposed motivational bases for NC having two dimensions. (emerald.com)
  • These convictionscoincide with some basic ideas in Kantian moral theory and theascriptive theory based on these ideas. (philpapers.org)
  • Although the Just War tradition may provide resources for treating moral injury, it is insufficient to assert that killing a lawful enemy combatant in a just war using proportionate and discriminate force is, simply, morally permissible. (episcopalchurch.org)