scholarly journals The goal of Christian virtue ethics: From ontological foundation and covenant relationship to the Kingdom of God

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Yiu ◽  
Koos Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Final Good ◽  
The Right

This article examined what constitutes Christian virtue ethics and its goal of highest human good. Christian virtue is a reality that is ontologically rooted in the grace of God through the atonement of Christ to envision the final good of creation. This view is drawn on the tripartite division of faith, hope and love as well as Paul Tillich’s ontological focus on the acclaimed quality of the virtue of love in relation to, and unity with, the virtues of power and justice as the ultimate reality in the divine ground for human existence. Christian believers must reunite the virtues which are received from God and by which Christians transformed in reality as new beings in the pursuit of the supreme goodness. Michael Horton’s covenantal model revealed a human being’s encounter with God, not only meeting, but recognising a stranger (a genuine ‘otherness’) under a covenant that was initiated by the grace of God with an awareness of his presence that was always immanent. A covenantal approach is used to describe the divine ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ as ethical and relational in getting the right conception and direction for our purpose from God. It also deals with the question of how our moral life is related to God and fellow humans toward the final goodness which is the highest good of the Kingdom of God. This article concluded with the coming rule of God’s imminent Kingdom as the true ultimate end of human beings and the eschatological fulfilment of humanity in goodness. The emphasis of the eschatological ethics lays on the theocentric futurity of the Kingdom directing Christians to the goal of the ultimate ideal and shaping the present existence of a Christian life.Hierdie artikel ondersoek Christelike deugde-etiek en die doelwit van die hoogste menslike heil. Christelike deug is ’n realiteitsontologie wat veranker is in God se genade deur die versoening van Christus om sodoende die uiteindelike heil van die skepping te visualiseer. Die siening is gebaseer op die drieledige verdeling van geloof, hoop en liefde. Verder is dit gebaseer op Paul Tillich se ontologiese fokus op die prysenswaardige deug van liefde in verhouding en in eenheid met die deugde van mag en geregtigheid as die uiteindelike realiteit van die mens se bestaan. Christen-gelowiges moet die deugde wat hulle van God ontvang en waardeur hulle vernuwe word, versoen met die realiteit as nuwe wesens wat na die hoogste heil soek. Michael Horton se verbondsmodel wys dat die menslike konfrontasie met God nie net ’n ontmoeting is nie, maar ook die herkenning van ’n vreemdeling, ’n gans Andere, binne ’n verbond wat deur die genade van God geïnisieer word. Daar bly ’n bewustheid van sy teenwoordigheid wat altyd immanent is. ’n Verbondsbenadering beskryf die goddelike ‘teenwoordigheid’ en ‘afwesigheid’ as eties en relasioneel tot die verkryging van die regte verstaan van God self. Die verbondsbenadering gee ook ’n begrip van hoe ons morele lewe tot God en ons medemens verbind is tot die finale heil wat uiteindelik die heil van die Koninkryk van God inhou. Die artikel sluit af met die toekomstige regering van God se immanente Koninkryk as die ware uiteinde van die mens en die eskatologiese verwesenliking van goedheid. Die klem van eskatologiese etiek lê in die teosentriese toekomsgerigtheid van die Koninkryk − wat vir Christene die rigting na die doel van die uiteindelike ideaal aandui en wat die huidige bestaan van ’n Christen bepaal.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AMONG THE TEACHER EDUCATORS OF KUVEMPU UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
Dr. Shivakumar GS
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
The People ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right

Every human being has the right to decent life but today there are elements in our environment that tend to militate against the attainment and enjoyment of such a life. The exacerbation of the pollution of environment can cause untold misery. Unhappiness and suffering to human beings, simply because of our lack of concerns for the common good and the absence of sense of responsibility and ethics for sustaining a balanced eco-system. If we are to aspire to a better quality of life – one which will ensure freedom from want, from disease and from fear itself, then we must all join hands to stem the increasing toxification of this earth. What we need in order to defuse this environmental time bomb is immediate concerted action of all the people, but such needed action will come only if we reorient such citizenry values, i.e., imbibe them with proper awareness and values (ethics), specifically those that will lead to a greater concern for preserving balance in the ecosystem, besides teaching them how to save the environment from further degradation, and to help, make it more healthful and progressive place to live in, springs from a strong sense of social responsibility. KEYWORD: Environmental Ethics

An Analytical Study On Air Pollution: Perspective Of The Environmental

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-506
Author(s):  
Aleti Rajashekar Reddy ◽  
Jaipal Reddy Battu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Fuel Wood ◽  
Ecological Ethic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Significant Factors

Analyzed that the Scientists and Geographers have provided scientific and meteorological evidence of patterns of alter into climatic circumstances of the globe with the resulting conclusion that the global warming is quickly happening & the on-going global warming is anthropogenic into the nature since people continue to extremely burn that fossil fuel as Oil & Gas; Coal & fuel wood. In this paper has to recognize how obtained to that point of forthcoming catastrophe, how susceptible Indians have, particularly those who live into the environmentally deprived regions. The consequence of this alters over the socio-economic growth of people will too investigated whereas adaptation developmental practices that can be adopted into the order to alleviate impending disaster will be proffered. The study made exercise of both primary & secondary data on result of the climate change phenomenon & relevant already published data on nature & consequence of climate change into the India. Now a day’s problem of environment degradation is increasing so there is need to control over it. Explained that the magistrates has opined that the right of human beings over ecological safeguard over countenances of similar coin. During the modern India, ecological Jurisprudence is plays pivotal role to safeguard of environment from degradation. The damage reasoned towards the environment by the poisonous gases & secretions, industrial sewages, plastic squander, misuse of natural resources such as forests, soil, water supplemented through other equally significant factors such as population explosion, poverty, health danger, disintegration into quality of existence have gained disturbing measurement that cry to novel ecological ethic command & justice into the Indian

The Human Good and the Ambitions of Consequentialism

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Moral Point ◽  
Moral Point Of View ◽  
Human Good ◽  
The Right

I want to look at one aspect of the human good: how it serves as the basis for judgments about the moral right. One important view is that the right is always derived from the good. I want to suggest that the more one understands the nature of the human good, the more reservations one has about that view.I. OneRoute toConsequentialismMany of us think that different things make a life good, with no one deep value underlying them all. My own list includes: enjoyment, accomplishing something with one's life, deep personal relations, certain sorts of understanding, and the elements of a characteristically human existence (autonomy, liberty).Most of us also think that moral right and wrong are based, in some way or other, in how well individual lives go, and that the moral point of view is, in some sense or other, impartial between lives. Utilitarianism is a prominent, but not the only, way of spelling out this intuition. There is no reason why an account of the human good needs to be confined, in the classical utilitarian way, to happiness or to fulfillment of desire (on the usual understanding of that notion). Nor is there any reason why impartiality has to be confined to maximizing the good, counting everybody for one and nobody for more than one. We may generalize.Let us broaden the notion of the good. We might say, for instance, that though happiness is a good, so are the other items on my list. But though broadened, this notion of the good stays within the confines of individual goods; it still has to do with human well-being, with what promotes the quality of one person's life.

scholarly journals UN VIAJE A TRAVÉS DEL WAṢL Y EL FAṢL. MUJER Y SEXUALIDAD EN EL PENSAMIENTO DE IBN ῾ARABĪ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heba Youssry
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Ibn Arabi ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
Made In

Resumen: El ser humano está en continua búsqueda de un lugar y una orientación dentro de un mundo que, supuestamente, es su morada. Este ha sido designado por Dios como Su vicerregente (jalīfa), es decir, su representante en la Tierra. Este artículo aborda la concepción de la mujer y la realización del papel de vicerregente por medio de la participación en la relación sexual dentro del marco del matrimonio, como un modo particular de ser, y como actividad física y metafísica necesaria para la existencia humana que posibilita a los seres humanos alcanzar la proximidad con la Presencia Divina. Para ello, se investigará la discusión planteada por Ibn ῾Arabī en su Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam en la que se analiza el dicho profético “Se me han hecho amar tres cosas en este mundo: las mujeres, el perfume y la oración como solaz de los ojos". Abstract: The human being is in a constant struggle to find a place, an orientation for him/herself within a world that is supposedly an abode. He/she was assigned by God to be a vicegerent (khalīfa), a representative of Him on earth. This paper aims to tackle the conception of women and the fulfillment of the role of a vicegerent through human participation in sexual intercourse within the framework of marriage as a particular mode of being, and as recurring physical and metaphysical activity pertinent to human existence which could allow human beings to rise to the proximity of the Divine presence. This will be accomplished through investigating; Ibn ʿArabī’s discussion of those activities in his book Fuṣūṣ al-Ḫikam, where he analyzes the prophetic saying: “Three things were made beloved to me in this world of yours: women, perfume and the solace of my eye was made in prayer”.

scholarly journals MULTICULTURALISM IN BRAZIL: PROTECTING THE UNBORN AND THE CHILD BASED ON BIOETHICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Silva Galdino Cardin
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Unborn Child ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
The Family ◽  
Indian Tribes ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

The emergence of plural societies with different traditions reveals the need to expand the concept of human rights in a multicultural dimension, including the right to difference, identity and the preservation of ethnic cultures. Ethics must be the measure of respect for multicultural identity, and when it comes to issues related to science and the quality of life of human beings, it must be applied the principles of bioethics. In Brazil, different traditions and beliefs coexist in each region of the country, in the Indian tribes, etc. These groups have different values regarding the family system, especially on how to treat the unborn child and the child. The principles of bioethics can be used as a limit when the cultural practices violate the rights of minors. Finally, considering human dignity, intercultural dialogue is the most suitable alternative to protect the unborn child and infant, and at the same time to ensure respect for cultural identity. For this, the government should implement public policies that promote the right to difference, valuing the culture of other peoples, with the effective participation of those who comprise the society.

scholarly journals R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The Relationship Between Being Respected and Quality of Life of Disabled People

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carli Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

The United Nations exclaims "all human beings have the right to be treated with dignity and respect" (Annan, 2005, p. 34). Yet, disabled people have long been denied respect in the United States and have been subjected to disability oppression and ableism. For these reasons, the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between respect and disability, particularly respect's impact on the quality of life of disabled people. We had two research questions: (1.) what factors predict disabled people being respected? and, (2.) how does being respected impact the quality of life of disabled people? To explore these questions, we used secondary Personal Outcome Measures® data from approximately 1,500 disabled people; we analyzed this data to examine relationships between disabled people's interpretations of feeling and being respected, and their quality of life. Our findings revealed being respected had a significant impact on every area of ones' quality of life. Problematically, this also included areas which should be considered non-negotiable fundamental human and civil rights, that should not depend on if, and how, people respect disabled people. While the attitudes underlying the disrespect of disabled people are harmful and problematic, human and civil rights should be inalienable – ones' access to exercise their rights, to safety, to health, and to many other domains should not depend on others' attitudes about, and treatment toward, you.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN FIQH EKOLOGI BERBASIS MASLAHAH

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Rahwan Rahwan
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
High Concern ◽  
General Principles Of Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conducive Environment

Talking about the environment, it means talking about the environment around us, covering the entire ecosystem. Environment consists of flora and fauna, biotic and abiotic (and inanimate objects). Life environment are interdependent with each other. Human small part of the environment. This environment will determine the fate of human life. Will provide a conducive environment and secure quality of life, on the contrary, if the environment is less conducive it will result in insecure or lacking in quality even really threaten the safety of humans and the entire ecosystem in the world. Fiqh as Islamic law governing the pattern of human relationships with God and neighbor, and also discuss the human relationship with the environment. The share issue fiqh in an effort to maintain harmonious environment by providing rules or code of ethics of human relationships with the environment. As the ban on harming the environment and the obligation of preserving the environment. This environmental management is based to the proposition - proposition tipsily, namely al-Qur'an, al-Hadith, and the general principles of law legeslasi. When fiqh took part in preserving the environment, then the whole mukallaf particular awareness of environmental issues related to land, air and sea. So they have a high concern for the environment. Giving rights owned by the environment, such as the right to life and the right to expand, not plunder and exploit. With so environment remain stable, beautiful and conducive. Along with other human beings be peaceful. Based on the above views of researchers seeks to conduct research in matters of environmental jurisprudence. With the aim of formulating a comprehensive environmental fiqh, systematic, and akuntebel and can deal with the issue of global warming.

Research and Innovation into the Biodiversity. Food Safety Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Simona Nicoleta Stan ◽  
Amalia-Gianina Străteanu ◽  
George Cosmin Colang ◽  
Marian Nicolae
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
The Right ◽  
Harmful Effects

Abstract In the last decades, the awareness of the harmful effects of environmental pollution on the quality of life of human beings has greatly increased. This awareness led to the legal regulation of the fundamental right to breathe fresh air, to drink clean water and to eat safe food. Among the concerns of the European institutions, we highlight the right to a healthy environment, as recognized in the Stockholm and Rio statements, but also the consumer’s right to use safe consumer products. Creating a framework of principles and procedures in accordance with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, to guide States in the formulation of bio-laws, policies or other instruments in the field of bioethics, legislation to protect and promote the interests of present and future generations and to emphasize the importance of biodiversity and its conservation as part of the common heritage of humanity.

scholarly journals “Legal Regime of Right to Information in India: A Socio - Legal Study of Higher Educational Institutions of Kumaun, Uttarakhand”

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukesh Kumar Ray
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right

Information is an essential tool of democratic system, where people understand what is good for them and the nation knows how to govern them. India has got a position as the largest democracy of the world. But the quality of the Indian Democracy has a need to achieve the matching distinction. In India, it has been commonly experienced everywhere that the system is totally paralyzed due to corruption, unaccountability and irresponsibility. None of the law has to ensure the transparency in the system and track the carelessness or corruption.In comparison to other Rights, Right to information is an emerging Right. There is no other law or legislation which can be compared with this Right. In recent years, there has been a strong global trend towardsrecognition of Access to Information (ATI) by countries, intergovernmental - organizations, civil society and the people. The Right to Information has been recognized as a fundamental human right, which upholds the inherent dignity of human beings.

scholarly journals EL TRABAJO SOCIAL EN LAS BRIGADAS JURÍDICAS DE LA CORPORACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA REPUBLICANA

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
LUZ BONILLA ◽  
◽  
LINA GUZMAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Policies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

rom the legal office of the Republican University Corporation, legal brigades are being carried out in different localities of Bogotá, where the approach to the communities has shown the need for interdisciplinarity with Social Work and the essential for the formation of citizens who think about collective projects and the construction of more equitable societies for all. In this space law students who belong to the Disability Convention of the legal office, provide legal advice in different locations discovering realities that need a transformation and that even belong to the reality of the adviser’s own environment, giving a new experience that takes them to think of a «want to change and help», forming more reflective, sensitive, understandable subjects that are aware of the differences between all people (in our case, people with disabilities, PcD). All this leads to the emergence of new questions and proposals to help, change or apply from their law career, where they are: laws, decrees, public policies and mainly the application of the «United Nations Con- vention on the Rights of people with disabilities «(2006) which was ratified by Colombia; it is struggling against pre-established models and common ways of seeing discouragement, which gave way to the social and legal limitations of PWD. In several nations in its historical line,models were used that allowed the exclusion, violation or limitation of the exercise of the right and the effective participation of PWD in conditions of equality with other members of society. Colombia has created public policies for PcD where its dignity and quality of human beings are recognized, historically it is based on the struggle that had been posed since the seventies in Europe and the United States to stop being considered second class citizens, disabled people, sick or mutilated. These campaigns and protests were aimed at allowing PWDs to form inclusive societies that accept the difference, respecting the human dignity of all people regardless of the «disability» they may have.

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