Sentences with phrase «interpreted as principles»

Laws, when interpreted as principles or guidelines, can warn us about what we ought to avoid.

Not exact matches

People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.

The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of sins against the law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Rather, it informs all as to the basic principles that ought to be taken into account in coming to specific judgments, in interpreting the particularities of human situations and in guiding concerted action.

Now although this primordial actual entity may itself be interpreted in terms of the principle of creative synthetic experiencing, the fact remains that simplicity of principle is gained at the expense of multiplication of entities, and the latter offends Occam's principle as surely as does multiplicity of principles.

Now, as it is usually interpreted, this principle is held to equate actual existence with becoming.

But, warns Ford, «this triunity of principles... can not be interpreted as implying a plurality of subjects in personal interaction within the Godhead, even though these principles are formally distinct from one another» (JAAR 207).

Already in The Idea of Nature, he made a distinction between Whitehead's realism and that of the analytic philosophy.23 In An Autobiography, he radicalizes that distinction, interpreting Whitehead's realism as contradictory to the realistic epistemology of the neo - positivists.24 Hence, he concludes that Whitehead's cosmology is in fact constructed on an anti-realistic principle (EM 176).

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

After describing in some detail the principle of complementarity in physics, Austin suggests that images of God as Father and as Judge are complementary models used to interpret individual and corporate experience.24 The prophet Amos, he points out, interpreted events in Israel's history primarily in terms of God's judgment, while Hosea understood events in terms of God's forgiveness.

Our first option is to adopt the message of Jesus as our hermeneutic principle — that is, the principle by which we interpret the Scriptures.

To confess Christ as the paradigm for interpreting the totality of experience is to link him positively with the elemental principles which make possible the actualities of the world.

Hermeneutics is often defined as the art of interpreting Scripture and therefore deals with principles of interpretation.

The internal principle for interpreting scripture can be no other than the mind of Christ.17 Christ is Lord of scripture as surely as he is Lord of the Sabbath, Lord of the church, Lord of all.

To answer that question, Justin argues that we have to have «a clear, consistent biblical standard for interpreting the text, a principle we can apply to various passages that will help us to determine, fairly and consistently, how to translate them for our culture... Such a standard would need to be able to differentiate God's eternal laws — such as those dealing with murder, theft, and adultery — from the cultural biblical rules Christians are no longer obligated to follow — such as those dealing with dietary restrictions and head coverings.»

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.

His most telling point is that denying metaphysics in principle has been interpreted as saying that God, Christ, and salvation constitute a healing and liberating discourse without any reference to a transempirical order.

As with most church statements, it is left to the competent authorities in each setting to clarify, interpret and apply the document's insights and principles for the local situation.

Functional ultimacy can also be interpreted as a more radical extension of Kierkegaard's principle of truth as subjectivity to areas beyond the ethicoreligious sphere.

Each of the three scholars was vitally interested in history which each understood as the unfolding of these principles and which each tried to interpret as such.

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

We can interpret this principle as being a refection of Jesus» choice of the Apostles and the continuation of the Apostolic order in the Pope and the Bishops (Mt. 16:13 - 20).

They interpret the principle of indeterminism as indicating limits on the possibility of human knowledge of this world but not as indicating that the cosmology is incorrect.

Yet God is not only the supreme irrationality (as Whitehead said) in that deity can not be «explained» in terms of ordinary concepts — although deity can be seen as what Whitehead styled the «chief exemplification» of the principles required to interpret things.

The Court, as it had prior to Casey, refused to apply the usual principle that laws should be interpreted to avoid constitutional difficulties, thereby illustrating a unique hostility to laws regulating abortion.

Creativity and the ontological principle interpret each other, nearly as much as creativity and the «one and the many» interpret each other.

Later neo-Confucianists such as Ch» eng Hao (1032 - 1085) and Ch» eng I (1033 - 1107) developed more straightforwardly cosmological concepts to interpret the original nature of man, namely «principle of nature» and «material force.»

But insofar as prehension, the mechanism of concretion developed in Science and the Modern World (and later in Process and Reality), can be interpreted in specifically human terms, this aesthetic principle is especially crucial to the increase of value in human existence, providing persons adjust themselves to it.

The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 26) provide that in the absence of statute or rule, the court shall follow «the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted by the courts of the United States in the light of reason and experience.»

Together with the principle that in God's revelation no word is without significance this conception of scripture leads to an atomistic exegesis, which interprets sentences, clauses, phrases, and even single words, independently of the context of the historical occasion, as divine oracles; combines them with other similarly detached utterances; and makes large use of analogy of expressions, often by purely verbal association.

Many Catholics in the West interpreted this principle, clearly stated by the Pope, as «officially» opening the way for the formulation of a new Catholic position on church - state relations.

The present is all that you have; and unless in this present you can find general principles which interpret the present as including a representation of the whole community of existents, you can not move a step beyond your little patch of immediacy.

No one who has read Immanuel Kant closely can deny that «the general good» may be interpreted as referring to whatever is in accordance with the general law of morality: 2 for Kant, only an autonomous will is a truly good will, only what is in accordance with the first principle of morality is truly (morally) good.

But the principle can be interpreted subjectively, as Whitehead does in terms of an urge to live (FR 8).

As the Spectator reported in 2011, they interpreted polling which show people evenly split over the principle of international aid as meaning there was a public support base for increasing iAs the Spectator reported in 2011, they interpreted polling which show people evenly split over the principle of international aid as meaning there was a public support base for increasing ias meaning there was a public support base for increasing it.

The public interpret it as a temper tantrum — but respect the Lib Dems for rediscovering their principles and reward them for ditching the man who led them astray.

These include the need for a purposively broad, liberal and benevolent interpretation of the Constitution as a whole, so far as the language of the constitution would admit, having due regard to the underlying values and principles that need to be promoted to safeguarded our system of participatory democracy, the principle that the constitution is a document sui generis, and allied to this, the principle that the constitution must be interpreted in the light of its own words, and not words found in some other written constitution» (Writ No: JI / 15/2015 [unreported] pages 23 & 24).

One concern stems from the way test designers have come to interpret the industry - guiding principles of building tests — principles often referred to as those of Universal Design (see Table 2 here).

I recall hearing, some years ago, that if you homestead your house (just on general principles), it will damage your credit rating, because credit bureaus and lenders interpret that as a sign that you're about to declare bankruptcy.

Derived from the core principles of science, her work examines experimental investigation as a way of thinking and a mode of working, utilizing the philosophy of science as a means of critically interpreting systems, actions and processes.

Surely there is the opportunity to remind the Prof and the Friends that recent food riots could be interpreted as a direct cause of the application of the precautionary principle, in the form all the biofuels investments and subsidies to combat AGW

Apparently he has never heard of the principle of charity in criticisms, ie, that in interpreting the works of others you construe them as consistent if it is possible to do so.

Certainly we can all think for ourselves and interpret data using logical principles but we must be careful about drawing conclusions based on partial evidence (such as the world temperature plot Mr. MacRae uses in his article «Glimmer of hope for consensus climate honesty is short - lived» which only includes 10 years of readings).

The advice provided by a skilled family law lawyer takes into account not just the text of the applicable legislation, but the case law interpreting that legislation, the applicable common law principles and the specific circumstances of the family as described by the client.

59 The answer to the first question and the first part of the third question is therefore that European Union law must be interpreted as meaning that it does not preclude the issue of judgment by default against a defendant on whom, given that it is impossible to locate him, the document instituting proceedings has been served by public notice under national law, provided that the court seised of the matter has first satisfied itself that all investigations required by the principles of diligence and good faith have been undertaken to trace the defendant.

As a rule of international law applicable in the relations between the parties, the Court ruled that the principle of self - determination had to be taken into account when interpreting the territorial scope of the AA in accordance with the rule codified in Article 31 (3)(c) VCLT, and that the application to Western Sahara was thus excluded (Front Polisario paras 88 - 92).

In Front Polisario, the distinct status of Western Sahara by virtue of the principle of self - determination was one of the main reasons (in addition to the rule on the relative effect of treaties, or pacta tertiis, Article 34 VCLT) the Court declared that the AA between the EU and Morocco should be interpreted as not applicable to Western Sahara.

This report concluded that DRI could not be interpreted as prohibiting general and indiscriminate data retention as a matter of principle, or as establishing criteria — all of which must be fulfilled — in order for legislation to be deemed proportionate.

Instead, it would apply the EU fundamental rights and the general principle of legal certainty as interpreted by the ECJ.