Sentences with phrase «as sacred principles»

So I hereby coin Carey's Law, which holds that trite observations are more likely to be regarded as sacred principles if someone happens to describe them as laws.

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As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreAs Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas it were, is redolent of the sacred.

The canon carries within it the principle that makes it sacred for us — the meaning - giving testimony of Jesus, which we as Christians recognize as primary authority.

It is not possible, according to Catholic teaching, to avoid even the mere possibility of a conflict between sacred theology and science by delimiting beforehand and on principle the domain of reality to which the propositions asserted by each refer, in such a way that even the material object of each set of affirmations would be different from the start and as a consequence no contradiction at all would be possible (Denzinger 2109).

With the coming of the Gentiles to Utah, the political direction of the state has, of course, passed from the church as church, but even today the economic and social life of the Mormon community is still to an amazing degree determined by the principles taught in their sacred book.

But as men became more and more aware of moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.

The Establishment Clause thus stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Const.itution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its «unhallowed perversion» by a civil magistrate.»

It is one evidence of how sweeping was this establishment of independent territories that the ideal of academic freedom now emerged as the most sacred of all principles within the new academic professions.

The first is by treating as sacred the trappings of civil religion rather than its principles, as in the case of superpatriots, for example.

Only after these sacred principles are violated do people enter into a second realm of decisions, in which moral considerations are weighted as against others, and calculations enter (e.g., people sometimes calculate how much to give — or if they give X, what it will do for their reputation, and so on).