But if this is true, does not this way of looking at humanitarian action contradict the principle of neutrality, that is, that humanitarian organisations should not engage in controversies of 'a political nature'?
More critically and consequentially, they should stop postulating, as opposed to incarnating by their actions, the principles of the 'West' that they take for granted to represent.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry has justified the action by citing the principle of reciprocity, which it described as "a basic element of international relations".
A Morgan Stanley spokesman said yesterday: "We're obviously pleased with the N.A.S.D. ruling, which dismisses the action based on the principle of fundamental fairness.
"This action publicly challenges the principle of independent, autonomous, domestically organized religious associations, and therefore represents a rude interference in Chinese religious affairs," his statement said.
Bolzano stresses that, in assessing an action according to the principle of advancing the general welfare, one must "not only look at its proximate consequences, but also at further ones" (RW I, 237).
In early stages of his career as a leader of anti-caste and so-called "non-Brahmin" movements among the Dalits of Maharashtra, Mr. Ambedkar, too, led mass actions based on the principle of passive resistance.
Hence, the need of framing the coastal cultural heritage into coastal management programmes, strategies and actions tailored to the principle of integration, which is the key word of the Agenda 21 approach, has come to the fore, and gained importance.
Whenever a person formulates what is to be done in some circumstance, this is an exercise of conscience, which has determined proper action from the principles of synderesis.
That means the European Union is 'founding' its action on the principles of democracy and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
