Image (of God) as ethical injunction: A social-scientific perspective

The image of God: an ethical foundation for medicine.

Ethical Leadership: A Multifoci Social Exchange Perspective

In this conceptual paper, I advocate a multifoci social exchange perspective on ethical leadership for the first time. I propose that social exchange relationships form between ethical leaders at organizational and supervisory levels and that these relationships, especially under certain circumstances (person and contextual factors), impact a broad range of important subordinate attitudinal and...

Misdiagnosis as an ethical and scientific challenge.

UNLABELLED DIFFICULTIES OF BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS: An astonishingly high rate of misdiagnosis between vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state has been detected. This raises the issue of the adequacy of the consciousness' assessment in patients with disorders of consciousness. The behavioral assessment of consciousness could be not able to...

Ethical Description of God in Avicenna`s Philosophy

Some descriptions such as necessity, power and life have been used in philosophy to introduce God, but in religious holy texts such as Quran some descriptions such as justice, forgiveness, kindness, and faithfulness are mentioned which are known as ethical descriptions in human conventional language. Some people have undermined the possibility of ethical description of God by attributing ethics...

Theories of God: Explanatory Coherence in a Non-Scientific Domain

Public representations of God range from the highly anthropomorphic to the highly abstract, and the present study explored whether differences in the interpretation of those representations are correlated with differences in one’s religious beliefs and religious practices more generally. American adults of varying ages and religious backgrounds completed a questionnaire that probed their belief...