Ethical Thinking of Driverless Cars

This essay explores how gender studies in academe, including in religious studies, might remain relevant to ongoing feminist political engagement. I explore some specific dynamics of this challenge, using as my test case the issue of abortion in the US. After discussing how three formative feminist principles (women’s experience as feminism’s starting point, the personal is political, and identity politics) have shaped approaches to the abortion issue for feminist scholars in religion, I argue that ongoing critique, new theoretical perspectives, and attentiveness to subaltern voices are necessary for these foundational feminist principles to keep pace with fast-changing and complex societal dynamics relevant to women’s struggles for reproductive health and justice. The essay concludes by proposing natality as a helpful concept for future feminist theological and ethical thinking on the subject.

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Transforming Ethical Thinking With Healthcare Reform: A Nursing Theoretical Perspective

Nursing Science Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0894318418755745 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 121-123

Author(s):

Constance L. Milton

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Reform ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Community Change ◽

Change Model ◽

Global Media ◽

Ethical Thinking

Healthcare reform discussions dominate the global media and legislative priorities. Many ethical straight-thinking questions arise over what the role of healthcare professionals, including nurses, should be in this debate. This article begins a discussion of potential ethical questions surrounding healthcare reform in light of a nursing theoretical humanbecoming community change model perspective.

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Ethics in Community in the Gospel and Letters of John

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739982.013.21 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jan van der Watt

Keyword(s):

Moral Philosophy ◽

First Century ◽

Ethical Thinking ◽

The Law ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Significant Data

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the question of ethics in John came under renewed consideration. As scholars applied more comprehensive analytical categories to the Gospel and Letters of John significant data became available related to the ethical dynamics of the Gospel. Reading the Gospel as narrative and reflecting on certain socio-historical and theological realities, scholars discovered that the interrelatedness between identity and behaviour is basic to the ethical thinking of John. This identity is expressed in metaphorical terms derived from familial, juridical, friendship, and royal language. The importance of ancient ethically related features, common to ordinary popular moral philosophy, like mimesis or reciprocity, are also highlighted as being part of the ethical dynamics in John. Obviously, the two major foci remain the Law and the love commandment.

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