Sentences with phrase «concrete applications of these principles»

The rest of the Times, however, often seems uncomfortable with concrete applications of these principles.

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According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Only someone who had an absolutely unhistorical conception of the way men come to discover truth could imagine that men can respond immediately to every new situation that arises with a concrete application of their general principles to the situation.

In another editorial he argues that the church should promote such concrete programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Jobs Corps, and the massive attack on the intolerable slums of our great cities.35 These are concrete applications of Scripture's moral principles, viewed in light of contemporary social and economic reality.

This essay is largely a simple, concrete, particularized application of the universal principles discussed in the chapter entitled «Abstraction» found in Science and the Modern World.

Of course Catholic moral theology has always known that there are concrete moral situations in which the application of universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous resultOf course Catholic moral theology has always known that there are concrete moral situations in which the application of universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous resultof universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous results.

The Court's inconsistency in the interpretation of the legal effect of various solidarity clauses incorporated in the EU Treaties originated in its preposition that this principle can be a source of legally enforceable obligations only when concrete legislative measures operationalise its application.