Sentences with phrase «not immutable laws»

Too often people trained in positive psychology forget that flow theory, broaden and build theory, self - determination theory, terror management theory, orientations to happiness, and the rest are not immutable laws.

Not exact matches

But as fun as maximalist thoughts of an immutable ledger are to entertain, the fact is the people in the blockchain space still live in the real world, where law — not computer code — controls, and online actions can have actual consequences.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is in existence, the character of its obligation, the possibility of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility of knowing oneself not bound by it in a particular concrete case etc., are of quite a different kind from any case in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.

Thus faith is immutable divine law of the Church and also true and living practice, determined not only by abstract principles but also by concrete ideals.

For this shortage would seem to be by no means so acute if the Church were to entrust the laity with whatever is not prohibited to them by the divine and immutable law of her constitution.

Moreover, only very little in the constitution of the Church is really of immutable divine law, and this law itself will inevitably exist in concrete historical forms which are not simply unchangeable.

He, somewhat fancifully, proposes that it is conceivable that the laws of the universe need not necessarily be immutable, or defined «from outside» the universe, and he is looking to investigate this possibility.

But with regard to halakhah, resistance to change is not only due to the need for legal stability, but is also based on a most powerful religious dogma, that the Word of God is unchanging and His Law immutable, this Word and this Law being mediated through the Talmudic Sages and through no others.

That is most definitely NOT an immutable economic law.

Perhaps those immutable laws that we have been pursuing all these years are not so immutable after all.

You expect car and models to appeal to the eye, but with one immutable law: You may not touch either one.

Unless of course you believe the gods have created a universe with immutable laws and processes that they themselves can not interfere with and events must proceed in accordance with these laws and that random chance and events will decide the future.

In fact, the graveyard of science is littered with the bones of theories that were once thought «certain» (e.g., that the continents can't «drift,» that Newton's laws were immutable, and hundreds if not thousands of others).

And while laws can punish negligence, they can't prevent it... human nature is immutable.

When asked by Justice Russell Brown whether law school tuition fees were a discriminatory barrier to entry, the AG's counsel stated that while tuition does not engage an immutable personal characteristic like sexual orientation, «[t] here may well be an argument in a different case that an accredited law school may not set their fees so prohibitively high... so as to curtail the [admission] of meritorious candidates.»