Sentences with phrase «acting upon principle»

Not exact matches

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that can not be avoided, and that — potentially — action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.

He decided that rationality demands that he act on principles that he could will all other men to act upon.

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

That might seem a hair - splitting distinction but invoking the «principle of collegiality» gives the impression that it is a maxim to be acted upon; that it summons us unto praxis.

In this manner the Teacher thrusts the learner away from him, precisely by serving as a reminder; only that the learner, in thus being thrust back upon himself, does not discover that he knew the Truth already, but discovers his Error; with respect to which act of consciousness the Socratic principle holds, that the Teacher is merely an occasion whoever he may be, even if he is a God.

Chigurh is a man who is irredeemably evil, but who acts upon his own set of morals and principles.

What principles — fundamental truths upon which we act — do we stand upon when judging education laws and practices?

Achilles in myth also courts the displeasure of the gods, as a matter of principle, and both characters with this name are willing to challenge conventional expectations or assigned roles in life, to act upon their moral convictions.

Without being doctrinaire, Alice Neel always acted on the principle, insisted upon by some feminist theoreticians, that a woman artist should emphasize the personal.

If the commitment to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities that was widely accepted early on in the UNFCCC is to be acted upon, member states now need to do much more to hold climate free riders to account.

Our Marianist values of leadership and service to humanity call upon us to act on these principles and serve as a catalyst for civil discussion and positive change that benefits our planet.»

CGSB violated the three foundation principles required by the Council's procedures and practices, which are based upon the process of «voluntary standardization» established by the Standards Council of Canada Act.

Under the principles of administrative law, government decision - makers must act within the ambit of power bestowed upon them by statute and they must act in a way that is sufficiently fair and transparent.

The agreement, and the procedures it has caused CGSB to impose upon the drafting committee's working group, violate all three of the foundation principles of the process of «voluntary standardization,» created by the Standards Council of Canada Act (s. 4), and the Council's CAN - P - 1:2012 text, Program Requirements for the Accreditation of Standards Development Organizations and for the Approval of National Standards of Canada, which is treated as having the authority of a regulation created by way of the Act.

According to the Court, this principle imposes a legal obligation upon EU Member States to act for the benefit of other Member States even when such actions are not in their own interest (para. 291 of the Judgment).

Turning to the substance of the case, the General Court held that the obligation to state reasons for an act adversely affecting a person constitutes an essential principle of EU law and may only be derogated from for compelling reasons touching upon the security of the Union or its Members.

«As stated in Article 5 (2) TEU, «[u] nder the principle of conferral, the Union shall act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set out therein.

It is easy to state a general principle that a claimant can not found his claim upon, or benefit from, an illegal act, but there are inconsistencies in the way in which the law has been applied.

However, while that is true in principle, he elaborated that such an interpretation was contingent upon a «hermeneutical coherence» (cohérence herméneutique) between the different legal acts in question (para. 27).

Great care must therefore be taken to consider each decision in the light of the circumstances of the case in view of which it was pronounced, especially in the interpretation of an Act such as the British North America Act, which was a great constitutional charter, and not to allow general phrases to obscure the underlying object of the Act, which was to establish a system of government upon essentially federal principles.

As is well - known, the principle of conferral holds that the EU can act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set out therein.

The Federal Arbitration Act (the Act) makes arbitration agreements «valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract,» 9 U.S.C. ¶ 2, establishes an equal - treatment principle: A court may invalidate an arbitration agreement based on «generally applicable contract defenses,» but not on legal rules that «apply only to arbitration or that derive their meaning from the fact that an agreement to arbitrate is at issue,» AT&T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333, 339.

This legal principle (the need for owners to have a proper reason for their requests to see records) is based upon Section 55 (3) of the Condominium Act, which currently says that owners can examine records of the corporation «for all purposes reasonably related to the purposes of this Act».

The constitutional power to act upon this basic principle has been recognized by this Court at different periods and under diverse circumstances.

These documents typically provide conditions upon which a principle is considered to be incompetent, and they give the authority of an agent to act on the principle's behalf.

The principle of waiver provides that if one party leads another party to believe that its strict legal rights under a contract will not be insisted upon, intending that the other party will act upon that belief and the other does so, then the first party may not afterwards insist on its strict legal rights when it would be inequitable to do so: Petridis v. Shabinsky, 35 O.R. (2d) 215 (H.C.), at para. 20.

The claimants submitted, inter alia, that the orders: (i) had been made without any prior consultation as to the principle, relying upon the common law duty to act fairly and / or the doctrine of procedural legitimate expectation; and (ii) were irrational on the basis that the reasons which had been put forward by the defendants in justification of the decision were inconsistent and contradictoryDyson LJ: The fact that, when conferring on the lord chancellor the power to prescribe court fees, parliament had decided whom he should consult before doing so, militated strongly against the idea that there should co-exist a common law duty to consult more widely (in the absence of a clear promise by the lord chancellor that there would be wider consultation and in the absence of any clear established practice of wider consultation).