"That abortion and its advocacy violate a primary precept of natural law reinforced by the Catholic Church's explicit doctrine is a mere bagatelle.
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.
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".
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.
Not so, says the United Synagogue, which defines the eruv as "a positive precept" of Jewish law.
Delaware corporate law holds as a core precept that the corporation's goal is to maximize shareholder value.
In an eerie parallel with the child-protective efforts, "the best interests of the corporation" was soon introduced as a legal precept.
Calling the whole world a battlefield in the war on terror may or may not be useful as a metaphor; it's certainly dangerous as a legal precept.
As a basic precept, getting out of the way of innovation is generally a good thing.
This doctrine was introduced as a methodological precept for the social sciences by Max Weber, most importantly in the first chapter of Economy and Society (1922).
