Sentences with phrase «general precept»

What's most interesting about the games, of course, isn't the general precepts, it's the details.

On this account, natural law is derivative from the right of nature, in the sense that the former consists in general precepts with which reason counsels the pursuit of self - preservation, and the social contract is based solely on those precepts.

Now, in the absence in the Qur» an of any further elaboration on these subjects, any clear details as to how these duties are to be performed, it is obvious that through these references the Qur» an establishes the authority of the Sunnah, and grants to it the right to elaborate and define the general precepts of the Qur» an.

Which is why there are Precautionary Principles — general precepts to mathematically determine correct decisions for given situations of knowns and unknowns.

Not exact matches

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

So I said, somewhat dubiously, because this was a secular lecture to a general audience and I was afraid of being misunderstood, that my point of view about life was going to show under the story, because that's inevitable, but I never consciously write about moral precepts, and I do not like moralism, which is another form of do - it - yourselfism.

However the real process of character formation involves not merely an absorption of precepts, but also the general orientation of the soul in which the ethical life is integrated with «the good life» in its broadest sense, so that morality becomes a matter of aspiration as well as exhortation.

On a more auspicious note, Funny Games will likely challenge the audience's own precepts on how to watch films in general.

DETROIT - With hundreds of millions of dollars of private and federal research work behind it, the Precept from General Motors, an experimental model to be introduced here Sunday, is probably the most expensive single car ever built.

In 2013, a mere 23 years later, the Court is still needing to remind the Attorney General of Canada of the difference between an honourable interpretation and a legalistic one, between a mere incantation» and a core precept.

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The training enables you to identify principles in the Code's Preamble — an aspirational statement about what the organization stands for — and to learn how the Code compares and contrasts with the precepts of general business ethics.