Sentence examples for commitment to natural law from inspiring English sources

For Jaffa, Lincoln was a philosophical rationalist whose commitment to natural law proceeded from almost geometric logic; its consequences can be known to all on the basis of unaided reason.

But that kind of religious commitment to natural childbirth seems to have waned".

Any perimeter creates a "managed" environment, but the commitment to natural ecology here is strong.

But quantifier accounts of ontological commitment get this backwards: since commitment to Ks is associated with the existential claim, '∃x Kx', a commitment to natural numbers entails, and is thus stronger than, a commitment to integers.

These models exemplify population thinking without a commitment to natural selection of cultural items.

It runs counter to natural law.

Appeals to natural law are not exactly new.

Third, as an affront to natural law, slavery contradicted God's law.

They are contrary to natural law.

Nonetheless, his opposition to emigration displayed the downside of his commitment to his natural law and manifest destiny-inspired principles.

Of these probably the two most important were, first, his commitment to a law of nature, a natural moral law that underpins the rightness or wrongness of all human conduct, and, second, his subscription to the empiricist principle that all knowledge, including moral knowledge, is derived from experience and therefore not innate.