Sentence examples for law conception from inspiring English sources

She urged the abandonment of "the law conception of ethics" and a return to the avowedly secular Aristotelian concepts of practical reasoning and virtue.

It has no reasonable sense outside a law conception of ethics; they are not going to maintain such a conception; and you can do ethics without it, as is shown by the example of Aristotle.

Not only is the view of law as ideology at odds with a lot of mainstream thinking about law, it seems difficult to reconcile with the central philosophical positions on the nature of law, e.g. a positivist conception of law as a set of formal rules, or a natural law conception where law is identified with moral principles.

As Anscombe[10] puts it (1958: 30), "it is not possible to have a [coherent law conception of ethics] unless you believe in God as a law-giver… It is as if the notion 'criminal' were to remain when criminal law and criminal courts had been abolished and forgotten".

By formulating (CA-1*) in this way, the covering law conception of the subsumption of singular events by general laws is preserved; but abandonment of the high-probability requirement led both Salmon (1971) and Alberto Coffa (1973) to question whether or not explanations still properly qualify as "arguments".

Certainly, the South African judicial rejection of the core in favour of a "reasonableness standard" presents a significant challenge to the international law conception of minimum core obligations [ 51, 86, 87].

Subsequently, from the 17th century on, the tendency toward a new, natural-law conception of the relationship between state and church began to develop.

What distinguishes Mr. Yoshino's work, Mr. Hutchinson explains, is that he is doing the nuts-and-bolts work, taking the theory and applying it to the law's conception of equal protection.

The former is an expression of an immediate emotional response to nature, where nature is thought of as "the subsistence of things on their own, being there according to their own immutable laws" (a conception of nature that derives from the conception of beauty in the "Kallias" letters).

The programs are developed in accordance with the recently adopted international and federal laws and conceptions, to which the authors of the present paper refer.

In response, Paul D. Clement, representing 26 states challenging the law, said this conception of federal power amounts to "a revolution in the relationship between the central government and the governed".