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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one's nation, of one's ideology, of one's morality, of one's values.
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.
In the industry, people talk about how getting their first project was a struggle but for me, the real struggle in Mumbai was to adapt to the lifestyle, culture and work ethics.
I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.
If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'
He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.
Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.
Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
In the best of circumstances, the Trump family business and questions about conflicts will be a burden to his presidency. There is no off-the-shelf ethics plan that would cover every possible conflict.
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!
We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.
More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state for ethics.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
