...tion to conceal it from the ignorant, since they believed that wisdom and ethics go hand in hand. Hence, the first sages hid the wisdom in writing, ... ...way of the earth.” From that path stems the philosophy of morality called “ethics,” which is based on an empirical knowledge, through examination of ... ...or ThE good of ThE WorKEr Many are mistaken and compare our holy Torah to ethics. But that has come to them because they have never tasted religion ... ...ll upon them: “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” It is true that both ethics and religion aim at one thing—to raise man above the filth of the n... ...ght of people. For religion extends from the Thoughts of the Creator, and ethics comes from thoughts of flesh and blood and from the experiences of ... ...tom, applied all over the world, that it is not good for a highly skilled professional to be among poorly skilled workers and learn from their actio... ...servant of the Creator, you should be watchful and see if he is a skilled professional, meaning wishes his work to be clean and pure and intended fo...

...re is no hap- piness in high technology, or the development of our culture and ethics. Drugs and other accessories for pleasure produce a desire to a... ...h or a path of pain. Which path we take is up to us. Q: Will Kabbalah help my professional progress? A: Kabbalah not only enhances one’s sensation an... ...ntists they will find it difficult to describe this or that phenomenon in the professional terms of that science. Kabbalists feel the actual laws of ...

...ed” has meant that legal authorities have regularly been forced to consult professional anthropologists to decide the status of particular areas. In A... ...issionaries were a welcome message: while the thoroughgoing monotheism and ethics of Judaism were kept intact, the entire ritual framework was discard... ...: AMERICAN INDIAN BELIEF 128 ORENDA I am a Caucasian North American woman, professionally at work in the field of academic philosophy, born and raised ... ...s able to act purposively. Baruch Spinoza, in his seventeenth century book Ethics, attributed what he called a “conatus” to each natural thing (i.e., ... ...ple, which in turn was a deeply important aspect of Iroquois spirituality, ethics and health. Let us consider in closer detail how the Iroquois though... ...Beliefs As a Foundation For Environmental Consciousness,” in Environmental Ethics, Spring 1990, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 17-43. Brandon, William: The Last ... ...merican Land Use Attitudes,” in THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 294 Environmental Ethics, Summer 1980, vol. 2, pp. 121-48. Hassel, E.: “Myths and folktales o...

...ndus systematically deny education to Dalits and Sudras right from school to professional levels. Dalits and Sudras are harassed, tormented, and dr... ...rds. 65 At times, Dalit and Sudra students find it difficult to enter any professional course: engineering, medicine, law or architecture. At ti... ...ineering, medicine, law or architecture. At times, even if they qualify for a professional course by sheer merit and hard work, they are unable to p... ...nas and caste differences should be protected. Each caste should protect its ethics and have the right to practice its codes and customs; it also g... ... No one can force a scavenger to continue his scavenging job. Such caste and professional atrocities should be banished. [Viduthalai, 18-4-1959] ... ...ntary and fundamental stages. Secondary (including technical and vocational) professional and higher education shall be made generally available an...

...ual recognition of the true God. 62 God The Invisible King 6. RELIGION AS ETHICS And while I am dealing with rationalists, let me note certain recent... ...t were simply an eminent but ill-reported and abominably served teacher of ethics—and yet of the only right ideal and ethics. He speaks as though reli... ...Man. It can do so without departing from the Christian ideal and Christian ethics. It need only drop all that is silly and disputable, and ‘mattering ... ...o artistic elaboration, the business of the barrister is the business of a professional wrangler; he is a bravo in wig and gown who fights the duels o... ...tines. Anyone who seeks the inti- mate discussion of spiritual things with professional divines, will find this is the substance of the case for the e... ...d. Therewith the whole position of the conforming sceptic is changed. If a professional religious has any justification at all for his professionalism...

...ut that field of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a... ...d clothes such as may co-operate in personat- ing the character of a grave professional man, he may elude all suspicions of impertinent policemen; may... ...literature. An artist from the Italian opera of London and Paris, making a professional excursion to our provinces, is received according to the tarif... ...ges crowding into one pocket volume, he cannot really have much abused his professional license for being dull. Indeed, one has to look out an excuse ... ...and no lampreys allowed, would soon cauterize the proud flesh of heretical ethics. Pope did wisely , situated as he was, in a decorous nation, and clo... ...reverence from you, by means of her grandmotherhood, which by means of her ethics she might not. T o be a good Grecian, is now to be a faded potentate...

...ey are rendered "invisible", "subhuman", and unprotected by laws, institutions, and ethics. This process of distancing and dehumanization I call "e... ...over ... As long as people co-operate legally and for legal ends, without breaching ethics and without discriminating against deserving non-members ... ...e bodies of dead people - we ought not to eat them. VIII. Arguments from Religious Ethics The major monotheistic religions are curiously mute when ... ... J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 75-91.) Still, most systems of morality and ethics impute to Man a privileged position in the scheme of thin... ... respond to the needs of their customers, to innovate, to initiate, to venture. In professional words: it optimizes the allocation of resources at ... ...onsider a medical doctor or an civil engineer who bribed their way into obtaining a professional diploma. Human lives are at stake. The wrong inform... ...onal diploma. Human lives are at stake. The wrong information, in this case is the professional validity of the diplomas granted and the scholarshi... ...imes" of the "Zionists". In all societies, crime is a growth industry. Millions of professionals - judges, police officers, criminologists, psychol... ... is fostered by a confluence of trends: 1. The emergence of a class of full-time, "professional" politicians who are qualified to do little else an...

...nd religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

... not finding work. The citizens are looked after by a growing multitude of professional helpers, doctors, therapists, instructors, who are in possessi... ...ion - village temples - family rites and rites of passage within village - ethics of fellow man - community morality - community tradition - village f... ...l ritualism - political sociodramas - state, national cultural hierarchy - ethics internal to technosystems - individualistic morality National cultur... ...cyborgs, nano-machinery, chemical consciousness - scientific-technological ethics - biological morality Universal consciousness industry - scientific-... ...g City. The new house styles were gleaned from construction magazines, and professional house designers appeared in provincial cities, even some train... ...ere common, but they have gradually died out. Nowadays, building requires professional tradespeople: bricklayers, joiners and fitters. Village houses... ...good behavior, good manners and family values prevailed; without community ethics, the villagers would not have had a shared future. In ecological ter... ...gly forced to become a part of the 'superculture'; they become specialized professionals in a centralizing agricultural technosystem, a network of the... ...ng villages. Young people are encouraged to strive for careers as sporting professionals, and internationally successful sportsmen become national her...

...d with teaching; and this divides into two great sections, α, A system of ethics so absolutely new as to be untranslat- able* into either of the clas... ...that Christianity has carried forward the work of human pro- gression. The ethics of Christianity it was,—new ethics and unintelligible, in a degree a... ...udiments is stolen, the whole is incoherent, and does not form a system of ethics. In Judaism, again, the special and insulated situation of the Jews ... ...by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian ethics (which word ethics, how- ever, is itself most insufficient) to natur... ...rd ethics, how- ever, is itself most insufficient) to natural or universal ethics is a field yet uncultured by a rational thought. The first word of s... ...cs, the first cultivators of casuistry had been those who kept in view the professional service of auricular confession. Their purpose was—to assist t...

...rom immortality to theology to literal misinterpretations and unifies these themes around unacknowledged Western core values. Shifting to philosophy, ethics, and rights, an ecological argument about our selective ‘liberation’ of nature is proffered as an introduction to global issues, including traditional values of poor countries and lost traditions in the West. An engros...

... Agriculture and Secular Environmentalism: Emerging Ecological Understanding Chapter 11 112 The Religion of Sustainable Agriculture: Philosophy and Ethics Chapter 12 125 Liberating Nature: Our Rising Awareness Chapter 13 134 Sustainable Development: Having it All? Chapter 14 138 Sustaining Our Role: Global Sustainable Development Chapter 15 145 Words versus Actio...

...napped. "Why not?" Brand asked. "Because you're a scum-bag. You found your ethics in a toilet." "Is your mind made up?" Brand asked. Walter lo... ...won't be able to prove anything. Besides, the other candidates, including the Ethics Committee, will be putting so much pressure on him he'll only l... ... his sons become part of the nightmare. They would grow up to be respectable, professional; maybe, even doctors. "But what to do?" That was the ques... ...e assassinated -- one bullet each to the throat, and the other to the head. A professional kill. Six security guards inside the monument were also ki...

...n the same podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives that motivate us and her idealistic concepts of ethics... ...ght be just fine if one‘s ultimate vocational goal was to sweep floors or collect garbage but it would be a huge negative for one who wanted a profes... ... normal for his age and culture. However when a celebrity in a nonviolent setting gets in a fight it may be seen as rather abnormal. But if a profes... ...ommonly deny that they have problems. ―Fantasy or daydreaming occurs when we delight in imagining ourselves to be other than we are: a profes... ... this mechanism. An adult may also adopt characteristics of a departed parent or loved one. Some people identify with an institution such as a profes... ...ry. We must study how to live. We must understand how our minds and bodies work. That means studying physiology and nutrition, psychology and ethics... ...economic capital depends on the importance of one‘s work to the society and how well he or she does it. Like Kino, athletes and actors are not profes... ... tend to have close family relationships. Is this what makes people happy? Americans with their high financial expectations, their strong work ethics...

...184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT SET IN STONE 201 MORAL RELATIVISM 201 SELF VERSUS SOCIETY 203 VALUE QUESTIONS206 THE WELFARE STATE 207 The Welfare State is Moral from a self-centered point of view 208 From a self centered point of view it is ...

...t from casual reactions, and total attitudes are differ- ent from usual or professional attitudes. To get at them you must go behind the foreground of... ...l they do, and of all they are willing to endure. The hedonistic school in ethics deduces the moral life wholly from the experi- ences of happiness an... ...sistance from Richard Weaver’s autobiography. Weaver was a collier, a semi-professional pugilist in his younger days, who became a much beloved evan- ... ...g his devotee becomes what one might almost call a new and exalted kind of professional specialty within the tribe.[199] The legends that gather round... ...dual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness; and even the best professional sainthood of former centuries, pent in as it is to such a conc... ...dens-und Kriegs-moral der Heere. Quoted by Hamon: Psychologie du Militaire professional, 1895, p. xli. 356 The V arieties of Religious Experience in ... ...l relations. I think that the method which Mr. Spencer uses in his Data of Ethics will help to fix our opinion. Ideality in conduct is altogether a ma...

...the Hebrew stories, and his head had been full of Hebrew poetry and Gospel ethics; until they had struck deep root into his heart, and the very expres... ...er anything approaching their experience. It was about this nucleus of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventio...