At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.
Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility" (The Ten Commandments, 10).
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-malefi...
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague would rest upon the support of a na...
The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived and disseminated throughout the world by Western civilization; knowledge whose nature has be...
That churchgoers do the lion's share of the charitable work in our communities is simply untrue. They get credit for it because they do a better job of tying the good works they do to their creed. But according to a 1998 study, 82% of volunteerism by...
