To present
a clear example of the principles, we've selected a case in which the work does indeed proceed relatively smoothly.
Not exact matches
Instead
of joining in a hue and cry against a churchman for engaging in this system in which every one
of us is implicated, from which even the bishop's salary is derived, or hiding our Christian faces in shame because his hypocritical enemies hold him up as a «horrible
example,» the
clear call
of Christ is that his followers should make a frontal attack upon the pagan system itself, and demand that our economic order shall give way to an economic order embodying the
principles of the kingdom
of God (July 17, 1929).
He makes
clear in several
of his writings that he considers the
principle of utility to be an
example of the fallacy
of misplaced concreteness.1 Hartshorne claims that «the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is not itself an actual happiness to anyone, and so is not a value in a clearly intelligible sense» (MRM 465).
Bloom points out, for
example, that Oliver Wendell Holmes gave up searching for a
principle «to determine which speech or conduct is not tolerable in a democratic society and invoked instead an imprecise and practically meaningless standard —
clear and present danger — which to all intents and purposes makes the preservation
of public order the only common good» (p. 28).
The absence
of clear, all encompassing organising
principles, like for
example the
principle of legality, makes the global legal environment confusing and unstable.
In the past, the Italian Constitutional Court made
clear that supra - national law should not prevail without any limitation, and that the application
of international obligations could not have the effect to breach the fundamental
principles of the constitutional order or the fundamental rights
of the individuals (this is called the «counter-limit doctrine», developed for
example in the «Granital case», Sentenza n. 170, 5 June 1984).