Like Cicero's, the statement of Seneca's Hercules that I have quoted as an epigraph arises from Stoic principles.
These recall sun, moon, earth, and heaven; the four cardinal directions; the four seasons; and other concepts derived from Confucian principles.
In 2004, Morocco changed its code of family law, shifting away from Islamic principles by giving more rights to women regarding divorce and polygamy, and raising the minimum marriage age for women to 18 from 15.
Saddam Hussein, like Iraqi leaders for centuries, they said, was an aberration from Koranic principles, but that didn't mean Islam was at fault, only that it hadn't been properly applied since the Caliphs ruled in Baghdad nearly 1,000 years ago.
But in what appeared to be a stab at mollifying growing anti-American sentiment, he also suggested that the United States had initially pushed the council away from Islamic principles.
Again and again — in their deference to papal authority, in their belief that American ideals and institutions derive from Catholic principles, in their willingness to sanction civil disobedience — the theocons come across not as harbingers of a conservative revolution but as a rather eccentric intellectual clique.
It demonstrates a humanist's obsession with the real-life implications of scientific concepts (Drabble's central conceit is the notion of mitochondrial DNA or matrilineal descent), and it is crammed with theories about everything from Lamarckian principles of evolution (which inspired the picturesque title and which Drabble gets wrong, but never mind) to early-20th-century child-rearing practices.
In his De Mysteriis Iamblichus developed a theology of the hieratic rituals from Platonic principles, which clearly sets them apart from the vulgar magical practices.
The study indicates that counseling as a basis from Buddhist principles has the potential to benefit patients with emotional anxiety-based problems.
How to explain this enigmatic country to outsiders a matter of some urgency these days as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pursues his project of realigning Turkey away from Western principles (always in the name of democracy and human rights).
