The Stoics cautioned us to keep our philosophical precepts few and simple, as we might have to refer to them at a moment's notice.
In a time and place where Calvinism and Pietism still questioned the value of the fine arts, it may have been necessary for him to emphasize the value of art for enlivening our moral precepts over his theory that morality itself aims at a kind of happiness in which the pleasures of the fine arts play a direct and major rôle.
In this study, a cell line, designated as MO-LAS, was established from the pleural effusion of a patient diagnosed as having angiosarcoma, which we prefer to call lymphangiosarcoma, according to our diagnostic precepts.
One of the great strengths of science, yet a sometimes troubling one for those involved in science, is that as scientists continue to accumulate more knowledge, some of our older "confident" precepts are weakened, modified, or even discarded.
You reminded us that Justice should be tempered with Mercy, that our best legal precepts still work: Innocent until proven guilty, mitigating circumstances, punishments that fit the crimes.
"The view of our organization and our committee is that in the face of controversy, you shouldn't back away from your precepts," he said.
In creating one, our aim was to adopt and extend these basic precepts, introducing our viewpoint and taking it somewhere new that felt relevant to our lives, without wholly severing a connection to their traditional role within Guatemalan culture".
Faith entails among other things, stepping into uncharted territory with God in humble obedience to the God whose plans are better and bigger than our humanly constructed and limited approximation of divine revelation in our claims, doctrines, moral precepts, and laws.
The model relies on the following precepts: 1) Our MPH-correlated genes are mainly additively expressed in hybrids, as confirmed by our findings.
At orientation sessions, IHS staff explained that we had been selected because of our dedication to the precepts of liberty, and that much was expected of us in return for the investment in our edification.
