The phrase "authoritative principles" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to established rules or guidelines that are widely accepted and respected in a particular field or context.
Example: "The organization operates under a set of authoritative principles that guide its decision-making processes."
Alternatives: "established guidelines" or "recognized standards".
With the expansion of commerce and industry in the 16th and 17th centuries, English courts were called upon to decide many novel cases for which the rules of medieval common law provided little or no guidance, and judges felt the need for broad, authoritative principles to support their decisions.
By analogy, when forceful principles and passions (N2) go against authoritative principles (N3), or when the principles and passions no longer bear the same relations or are in conflict this goes against our nature and is unnatural.
That an authoritative principle dictates that we ought to intend a good action does not depend on external factors that might prevent or mitigate the desired prudential outcome (but see McNaughton 2012).
i Dogma: An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true.
"We concluded that there is an absence of concise, authoritative briefing specifically for governors, and that too much of the communication of important principles is left to the initiative of - and for translation by - others," says the report.
And what we want to find, when we are seeking the supreme moral principle, is not a descriptive principle, but the most fundamental, authoritative normative principle.
Outterson, who has long promoted de-linkage, says its publication "marks a watershed event as an authoritative endorsement of the principle".
On one reading conscience is authoritative over the other main principles discussed by Butler — self-love and benevolence (if it is a principle — see Section 5) — and all when properly understood promote the same actions in accordance with our nature.
During the period between congresses, the central committee of the party, acting as the most authoritative leading collective, meticulously observed the principles of the party and carried out its policy.
So far, organizations had no authoritative guidance on circular economy (CE) principles, strategies, implementation, and monitoring.
On the contrary, probabilistic forecasts fulfil the hazard-risk separation principle according to which "authoritative scientific information should be developed independently of its applications to risk assessment and mitigation" (Jordan et al. 2014).
