In a debate with Douglas, Lincoln referred to an "eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world".
Between these two principles, the Twin Spirits made an ominous choice, the Bounteous One becoming in thoughts, words, and deeds a partisan of Asha, ashavan, while the other became dregvant, partisan of the Druj.
However, over the past four decades the environmentalist mentality grew up as an alternative, emphasising "sustainable" use of nature.California's water policy in the past has swung "like a pendulum" between these two principles, depending on which lobbyists have won the latest victory, says Lester Snow, the director of California's water department.
The intimate relationship between these two principles may be witnessed in his definition of beauty as that "which delights the mind that recognizes it and moves it to love" (dilettando l'animo col suo conoscimento, il muove ad amare).[20] Without Beauty, in other words, the intellect is unable to desire something outside of itself and, thus, it is effectively unable to cognize.
The above case presented itself as a dilemma of choosing between these two principles.
The conflict between these two principles is likely to be of ongoing concern for health professionals in resource-constrained settings (Coetzee et al. 2004), particularly if waiting lists to start treatment are long and if less than full coverage of those in need can be achieved.
While ethicists have long been interested in the conflict between these two principles in cases of deception in medical practice, there is comparatively little empirical evidence concerning whether lay people the potential targets of such deception regard deception as morally acceptable across different medical contexts.
The contest between Plath and Hughes invokes the contest between the two principles that hedge human existence.
A military strike would prompt another competition in Germany between the two principles of "Never again war" and "Never again Auschwitz", like the one that took place during the Kosovo war in 1999.
But the LEM has often had a less secure place in Western Philosophy than the LNC, in spite of the numerous obvious dualities between the two principles.
The second fundamental comparison in the first part of the original position is between the two principles and the principle of restricted utility, which is identical to Rawls's two principles except that the difference principle is replaced with a principle of average utility to regulate the distribution of wealth and income, constrained by a social minimum.
