The reason, however, that it is crucial to define the interior of the man is that this is where his principles originated -- from carefully adopted precepts, learned and acquired in early boyhood, adolescence, and college, then refined, tested, revised, and put to work over a lifetime.
The writer describes how the field of anesthesiology has adopted this precept and seen extraordinarily successful results.
If everyone adopted this precept, we would have no need for Norton, Kaspersky or Mcafee -- all multi-million dollar companies creating new secure ways to stop hacking, malware, online identity theft and viruses.
But adopt their precepts, the Taliban did; after all, once Pakistan came into existence in 1947 – another uniquely British creation – the Deobandis became far more important in what was now the majority Muslim corner of what had been the Raj.
To make the season fun, I adopted a few precepts.
Were he to actually adopt their stoic precepts, his experience of life would be different.
The Communist Party, heavily pragmatic, is unlikely to adopt the moral precepts at the heart of classical Chinese philosophy.
By contrast, Mill's account of secondary principles recognizes their importance in moral reasoning but insists that they are neither innate nor infallible; they are precepts that have been adopted and internalized because of their acceptance value, and their continued use should be suitably regulated by their ongoing comparative acceptance value.
Perhaps the soundest course for U.S. foreign policy when it comes to international corruption would be to adopt a Hippocratic precept: significant reform must come from within, but, at a minimum, the United States should do everything it can to insure that it does not exacerbate the problem.
Second, to arrive at the main conclusion in 4 supporting universal access to a decent minimum of care Gibbard adopts an ethical precept that is sufficient to support provide a basis for a universal level of insurance purchasing.
New legislation has been adopted to align Arab countries' laws with the precepts of the CRC.
