Sentences with phrase «precedence over tradition»

This criticism fails, Person points out, because on any issue where the requirements of the natural law were clear, Kirk always conceded their precedence over tradition.

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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.

Again he gives an example of how human traditions can take false precedence over the commandment of God.

Jewish tradition teaches the opposite: The survival of the Jewish people takes precedence over the survival of individual Jews.