The phrase "a world of principle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, environment, or context where principles or values are highly regarded or emphasized.
Example: "In her new role as a leader, she aims to create a world of principle where integrity and honesty guide every decision."
Alternatives: "a realm of values" or "an environment of ethics".
You love our world, our country -- not its government, clearly, but its old ideals and living idealists, its possibilities, its dreamers, and its dreams (not the stale, stuffed American dream of individual affluence, but the other dreams of a better world for all of us, a world of principle).
Today's world of principle-free networkers, careerists, and ambitious climbers cannot help but take notice of his story, and perhaps we might all feel a little shame when we compare our own accomplishments to his.
"In such a world-country, the principle of loving one's neighbor as much as oneself seems to me to be the essential guide to harmonious relations".
But as the book amply demonstrates, the sequence of events in Fischer's life should be kept straight: he gave up the world championship as a matter of principle; he turned against his own country only after being repeatedly harassed by the State Department; his vitriolic outbursts intensified only as did his serious medical problems.
I remember their attitude towards foreign exchange regulation at the end of World War II: As a matter of principle, even if they thought they wouldn't get caught, they would abide by it.
His is a Platonic metaphysics, so for him reality is that unchanging pre-existing world of fundamental principles and concepts.
These people might be surprised to learn that in 2005 a World Summit of the UN endorsed the principle of an international responsibility to protect oppressed people from their persecutors (see article).
Over time, this vision of a world ruled by rational principles evolved into an ideal of a society governed by rules.
It is a hope that increasingly risks being drowned in a world in which the principle of live and let live is being replaced by the notion of us or them.
It is the legacy of men and women who, in 1776, dreamed of a world based on Enlightenment principles: that every individual--not government, and not just a privileged few--is vested with unalienable rights including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
When Natalie now thought of adult life (she hardly ever thought of it), she envisioned a long corridor, off which opened many rooms — each with a friend in it — a communal kitchen, a single gigantic bed in which all would sleep and screw, a world governed by the principles of friendship.
