Quotes About Ethics

Huxley did not look the warrior. But he had a warrior's ruthlessness. His dicta included the pronouncement: "The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

God left all men free; Nature has made no man a slave.' (Anonymous, in Rhetorica Aristotelis, CAG XXI: 2, p. 74 Rabe) This, remarkably, is the only surviving testimony to what must have been a fairly widespread sophistic thesis, that slavery is contrary to nature (referred to disapprovingly by Aristotle at Politics 1253b20ff.).

Pero la libertad humana sí existe y es importante para la responsabilidad ética. Cuando Dios juzga las obras humanas, a veces toma en consideración lo que somos capaces y lo que no somos capaces de hacer. En Lucas 12:47-48 leemos:

Como dije en el capítulo 7, el intelecto, la voluntad y las emociones son una sola cosa en la naturaleza humana. Ahora podemos ver que estas también son una en nuestra naturaleza pecaminosa.

Lo mismo es cierto de la ética. Por ejemplo, la Biblia no menciona el aborto. Necesitamos aprender lo que es el aborto de fuentes extrabíblicas. Las Escrituras dicen algunas cosas acerca del asesinato y acerca de la vida humana antes de nacer. Cuando unimos los principios bíblicos con nuestro conocimiento extrabíblico de lo que es el aborto, llega a ser obvio que "no matarás" implica "no abortarás".

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

One forced to live in surroundings that might have been devised by Plato must seek relief and an outlet for the human urges despised by philosophers. Wickedness and debauchery may not be the only answers, but they are certainly the ones with the widest appeal.

Lowest of all were bankers and auctioneers, who made money without actually producing anything—activities that, to right-thinking people, had the aspect of a species of magic.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

The argument that Saddam Hussein was a bad man and had to be removed simply won't do. There are many bad men around the world who run countries and we don't topple them, and, indeed, in earlier years we actually supported Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and an unacceptable argument for regime change.

Gradually, he began to understand that the AI community was actually his philosophical enemy. After all, their vision was to replace humans with machines, while he wanted to extend and empower people.

The separation of the fields of AI and human-computer interaction, or HCI, is partly a question of approach, but it's also an ethical stance about designing humans either into or out of the systems we create.

A free society's best defence against unethical behaviour modification is public disclosure and awareness.

The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...

This tire, represents stewardship. We are all stewards who make contact with the world in every kind of situation.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.