Speaking as an anti-war, anti-occupation leftist, I actually agree with a number of their criticisms of the left (see my talk on the subject), sections of which fail miserably on the tests posed by the Euston Manifesto authors: critical openness, respect for historical truth, consistency of principles, rejection of double-standards, moral relativism.
The poor man shunning the shower in the shed would not have been impressed by the consistency of his principles.
A numerical finite element model of the experimental setup is implemented to validate the experimental method and confirm the consistency of the measurement principle.
BRADLEY Well, you still didn't answer the question whether consistency on fundamental issues of principle is relevant.
And, unfortunately, that has not been reciprocated on the other side in this campaign.... Al, Hillary Clinton said the other day that consistency on fundamental issues of principle is important.
But we are faced with a question of consistency and principle.
The resulting decisions were not always models of principle or consistency, but Justice Brennan would invoke what he called the first rule of the Supreme Court by holding up an open hand: It takes five votes to accomplish anything.
Henry Sidgwick, for instance, claims that 'the philosopher seeks unity of principle, and consistency of method' and that the role of the moral philosopher is to 'enunciate, in full breadth and clearness, those primary intuitions of Reason, by the scientific application of which the common moral thought of mankind may be at once systematised and corrected' (Sidgwick 1907 373–374).
What's most worrisome about Trump is what's been worrisome all along: that he doesn't think through the consequences of what he says and does, and that he acts without a glimmer of consistency, or guiding principle; he's a man of constant surprise.
