"Ethical precepts" refers to rules or guidelines that are based on moral principles and help determine what is considered right and wrong in a particular context or situation. These precepts provide a framework for ethical decision-making and guide individuals or groups in their behavior towards others, ensuring fairness, honesty, and respect.
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This attitude could endure, because along with these national and cultic laws the Old Testament contains also an abundance of universal
ethical precepts for the permanent relationships between man and man, for situations of life which remain essentially the same in all ages.
It is also wholly impossible to regard Jesus» teachings as universally valid
ethical precepts by which a man can once for all order his life.
«49 Mandates are different
from ethical precepts, for the latter concentrate upon what is not permitted while mandates give positive instruction for the content of life.
It seems unobscure that the species of human freedom endorsed here precludes, at the very least, an immediate movement from ontology to ethics, from the «is» to the «ought,» without the intermediate operation of our functionally ultimate valuation — thus affirming, in part, Sartre's claim: «Ontology itself can not
formulate ethical precepts.»
It is almost superfluous to add that there are no really
new ethical precepts of Jesus, that his specific sayings have numerous parallels in the Jewish tradition.
On Tuesday, November 5, 1996, the voters of Oregon countermanded 2,500 years of
medical ethical precepts by permitting physicians to write prescriptions for terminally ill patients with the understanding that the prescribed drugs would be used for suicide.
For people of faith, examining our religiously
based ethical precepts through the fine lens of a legal scholar may feel very odd, but it does make one notice new things.
It is true that morality can be taught without reference to religion insofar
as ethical precepts can be stated without reference to their theological basis.
The average person lived on a plant based diet out of necessity, out of economic necessity animal flesh was a luxury food and Jesus certainly emphasizing simplicity of living would have had to be vegetarian but also had
ethical precepts very similar to those of Buddhism in which thou shall not kill is really the first is really the first commandment of the asees of which he belonged.
It's an intentional distortion of
an ethical precept at the very foundation of our philosophy of law.
Its ethical precepts have been the basis of moral education of most of the Chinese people for a period longer than the entire Christian era.
A primer on the Yamas and Niyamas are that they're «
the ethical precepts set forth in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as the first and second of the eight limbs of Raja Yoga.»
It teaches that by firmly establishing yourself in moral and
ethical precepts you can experience greater peace and joy in your life.