“Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!” ShouldCareIndividualDecisionChangedLimitsEthicsDoctorsFunctionPatientMedicalTraditionalPrimariesHealth CareDecision MakingRegulation Author:Donald Berwick
“Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.” EthicsFunctionIslamicSufismLampsLightingFastingPurifying Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.” IfsHumansDoeMatterSeemsTodayValuesResponsibilityPrinciplesEconomyEthicsAccountsFunctionVisibleSolidarityInteriorsExteriorHuman ValuesReciprocal Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.” HouseProcessEthicsAbuseFunctionIndependentMajorityAbuse Of PowerMolestation Author:Louise Slaughter
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.” IfsWayLifeHumansRealityTruthLawCertainReligionChangeAcceptingMoralPracticeImpossibleHuman NatureAcceptanceEthicsDiscoveryFunctionTwentiesTransformationHistoricalMythDoctrineBehaveBreakfastEthicalAestheticTransformedConformPropositionsMetaphysicalAestheticsAlchemyFamous WomenSelf TransformationSpiritual TransformationEnhancement Author:Karen Armstrong
“Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.” IfsHas BeensSaidActionEmotionMoralPsychologyEthicsFunctionArticlesDefiniteUtteranceTheorists Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.” MindArtLiteratureMoralBloodMoralityEssentialsEthicsArt IsFunctionPassionateMotherhoodImplicitDidactic Book:Studies in Classic American Literature Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.” ThinkingWayFirstsStatesHappensActionOrderViewsAttentionMoralPsychologyTheoryStandardsEthicsFunctionComplexesAgentsVarietySaltRealismWorth It Book:Moral Realism: A Defence Source: Moral Realism: A Defence