But only through the struggle of affirmative action are they coming to realize that such compromises, wisely pursued, can actually serve a higher principle: the supreme virtue of being fair to those who have been most unfairly treated.
Parliament is back, and with it all the frenzied theatre of democracy the oratory and toadying guff, the plotting and high principle, the MPs stretchered in from their sick beds to avoid defeat.
By now, you may have guessed the pattern, one that has persisted until the present: out of high principle, the Arabs refuse to compromise, and subsequently are confronted with a fait accompli that's worse than their previous position.
Whatever we think of the idea of liberation through submission to a higher principle, the motif of humiliation as a virtue has a history spanning millennia and world cultures, and thereby must be understood to account for why it has value as a political means in pre-scientific and analytic circles in general, and Burkhart's Liz Series specifcally.
Apparently Plutarch identifies the highest principle with the Form of the Good of the Republic and with the demiurge of the Timaeus (see Ferrari 2005, Brenk 2005), a tendency that Numenius and Plotinus will resist later.
As the great humanitarian, theologian and philosopher Albert Schweitzer has enunciated in his view of Reverence for Life, respect for the life of others becomes the highest principle and the defining purpose of humanity.
The hierarchical order of these principles of reality is determined by the degree of unity and simplicity of each; the highest principle is the simplest and most completely a unity.
Lincoln thought that the Declaration of Independence expressed the highest principles of the American Revolution, and that the Founding Fathers had tolerated slavery with the expectation that it would ultimately wither away.
That publicity, Mr. Freeh said Thursday, would have hurt the nationally ranked football program, Mr. Paterno's reputation as a coach of high principles, the Penn State "brand" and the university's ability to raise money as one of the most respected public institutions in the country.
In line with the Timaeus, Numenius treats the Good, the highest principle, as well as the lower principles of reality that he introduces, as gods.
