Sentence examples for a primary precept from inspiring English sources

"That abortion and its advocacy violate a primary precept of natural law reinforced by the Catholic Church's explicit doctrine is a mere bagatelle.

Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, considered them to be the "primary precepts of justice and all law, and natural reason gives immediate assent to them as being plainly evident principles".

While it is far from clear whether there was a single way that Aquinas proceeded in establishing moral norms from the primary precepts of the natural law in the Summa Theologiae, John Finnis has argued (Finnis 1998, p. 126) that Aquinas employed this master rule approach: on his view, Aquinas held that this master rule is the rule of universal love, that one should love one's neighbor as oneself.

Thus, conscience was considered an act or judgment of practical reason that began with synderesis, the structured development of our innate remnant awareness of absolute good (which he categorised as involving the five primary precepts proposed in his theory of Natural Law) into an acquired habit of applying moral principles.

This is a primary and important precept – aiming to meet the needs of the artists is at the heart of what the Pallant House does.

It is, for example, not clear whether "love thy enemy" is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.

She promoted environmentalism as a precept that gave individuals a stake in the perpetuation of a peaceable planet.

— privatization — had become a central precept of the conservative movement.

In doing so, he ignores a basic precept of modern music: it's about escape.

A successor was chosen to "ugly it up," a modernist precept every style aficionado understands.

Not so, says the United Synagogue, which defines the eruv as "a positive precept" of Jewish law.