But it consistently throws light on a question about America that has so often puzzled outsiders: how does it continue to combine such cold-eyed realism with a boundless, sunny confidence?The book opens in the shadow of a conflict of principle that left 620,000 American soldiers dead.
Letts enjoyed the fact that the story did not have clear heroes and villains, but rather a conflict of principle.
His influence on American education in general is typified by Conflicts of Principle (1932; rev. ed., 1956) and At War with Academic Tradition in America (1934).
Mr. Nierenberg added that "the music invokes images of nature, magic and intrigue, since Mendelssohn preferred to exploit the spooky qualities of the poetry rather than the conflict of religious principles".
"In the Attorney General's view," Grove wrote, "the propriety of a legal defense fund is governed by conflict of interest principles..
Palin, as she is wont to do, cast the conflict as one of "principles" over the practicalities of the democratic process -- of which Palin now likes to position herself above the fray.
While the traditional normative ethical theories, such as principlism or utilitarianism, might be useful in less complex situations, there are clearly multiple conflicts of basic principles and parties here.
(Although most of us don't run companies that do work for tarnished groups like Blackwater - groups that feed at the public trough - while guiding a presidential campaign at the same time. Or is respect for the principle of conflict-of-interest for "losers"?).
We propose that the specific manner in which the principles are taught and discussed in medicine – namely by referring to conflicts requiring a balancing of principles – may partly explain why the degree of perceived "morality" of the principles is lower compared to other moral values.
The only way in which we could continue to think of morality as governed by absolute principles is to suppose that there is only one such principle, so that there is no possibility of conflict between principles, or to arrange things in some other way so that the principles are incapable of conflict.
