Sentence examples for common precepts from inspiring English sources

Schools in Scottsburg, Ind., have posted what they call common precepts, many of which sound a lot like the tablet delivered to Moses.

During the Classical period composers hewed to certain common precepts and rules; the fledgling Beethoven, however bold, initially adhered to a Haydn-inspired model.

Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.

Sidney, following the lead of a 16th-century Italian Neoclassicist, Ludovico Castelvetro, added the unity of place: "The stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time presupposed in it should be, both by Aristotle's precept and common reason, but one day".

The third method is variously called dogmatic or intuitional morality, which is somewhat ambiguously construed as either the (mostly negative) precepts of common-sense morality or the somewhat more refined version of these set out in the theories of such moral theorists as Whewell or Henry Calderwood (Whewell, 1864, Calderwood, 1876, and Donagan, 1977, 1992).

They are all to be found in Confessions, and while few would accept them as inviolate today, the underlying precepts of clarity, straightforwardness and common sense cannot be faulted.

It may be that some set of core precepts could serve as a common morality to undergird the conduct of biomedical S/T research and its use toward the provision of social good [ 21].

For lay people, there is often the choice of five or eight precepts, five being the more common for everyday Buddhists.

It's the root moral precept of our sense of common humanity.

Borrowing a page from Wittgenstein, Gert declares that his account changes nothing in common morality, which does not change over time, leaving its central precepts and decision procedures in place and intact (Gert 2004, p. 4).

It is common for many Reiki teachers and practitioners to abide by these five precepts, or principles.