Religious ethics, Christianity, and war

Religious Roots of a Political Ideology: Judaism and Christianity at the Cradle of Zionism

Albeit overtly secular, Zionist ideology was inspired by religious thought. While traditional religions often supported the nationalist cause, the relationship of Judaism and Zionism is vastly different. Adepts of traditional Judaism immediately rejected Zionism, and this rejectionist attitude has not vanished to this day. On the other hand, Christian, mainly Protestant theologians had develope...

Good feelings in christianity and buddhism: religious differences in ideal affect.

Affect valuation theory (AVT) predicts cultural variation in the affective states that people ideally want to feel (i.e., "ideal affect"). National and ethnic comparisons support this prediction: For instance, European Americans (EA) value high arousal positive (HAP) states (e.g., excitement) more and low arousal positive (LAP) states (e.g., calm) less than Hong Kong Chinese. In this article, t...

Religious and Ethics in Relation to secular Ethics from Allameh Tabatabai's Viewpoint

In an innovative categorization, Allameh Tabatabai has divided ethical schools into four major including those of: predecessor prophets, Quran, Greek philosophers, and relativism (the followers of evolution theory). The two former schools are known as elements of religious ethics and the latter ones as secular by Allameh Tabatabai. According to his division and evaluation of the ethical schools...

ethics and religious principles in medical research

background: the four pillars of ethics are human dignity, beneficence, non-malfeasance and justice. among the application of ethics in medical research we can look at all of any of these principles specially. in the other hand, in iran there is a long history in the field of medical science and medical ethics from earlier muslim scholars to islamic flourishing period. in this study we aimed to ...

A Religious Perspective on Legal Practice and Ethics