According to Kantian contractualism, "society, being composed of a plurality of persons, each with his own aims, interests, and conceptions of the good, is best arranged when it is governed by principles that do not themselves presuppose any particular conception of the good…" (Sandel, 1982: 1).
"I believe we could consider the megalopolis skyscraper as the system of a living organism," Orlov says; one that works by existing architectural principles, but also by design and engineering principles that don't currently exist in reality.
Dear Gaia, you created a business following a passion, you have won the respect of many people by holding true to the principle that doing good is the key to personal and social success.
Britannia operates on the principle that doing is improving, and so the most skillful characters are, almost by definition, the ones who have been playing the longest.
However, connectionist models also show that network organisations sufficient for many collective behaviours can be generated via learning mechanisms that modify the strength of connections according to only very simple and local reinforcement principles – even by mechanisms that do not require any system-level reward or performance-based feedback.
Miliband's office insists the Labour leader could have signed the Guardian letter as it is not divergent with his views and they accuse some of the signatories of collectively imagining a betrayal of principles by Miliband that does not exist.
There exist normative ethical systems that do not require principles and rules to be given by a deity.
Lean principles focus on improving efficiency by minimising the time and resources required to provide services, eliminating practices that do not value-add and increasing those that do.
Thus, moral principles and rules may emerge from or evolved by a particular human society; even so, they are principles that can and do—apply to all human societies inasmuch as they respond to basic human needs, interests, and purposes.
Consider moral principles that you do not always follow.
He and his government had many policies that were not driven by the principle that "nations don't have friends, but only interests".
