Sentence examples for philosophical precepts from inspiring English sources

In his friend's predicament, Elliot might have seen an echo of Hume's own philosophical precepts.

More often, religious and philosophical precepts have determined the degree of naturalism permitted.

In seeing his friend in danger of losing himself to passion, Elliot might have heard an echo of Hume's own philosophical precepts.

And it wasn't my dad as an abstraction - a mess of regrets, resentments, philosophical precepts, unexplained mysteries and love - but my dad as my dad.

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.

For the rest of her stay in Italy, whenever she encounters a great work of art (a Cimabue in Assisi, say, or a Raphael in the Uffizi), she observes carefully, teasing out specific meanings, while reaching — with more variable success — for philosophical precepts.

There is an old philosophical precept that from the fact that something exists, it follows that it is possible (ab esse ad posse valet consequentia).

Rather than organizing the exhibition by designer or country, the pieces were organized based on the intellectual or philosophical precept under which they fell.

Isn't forgiveness one of the most fundamental of all religious, philosophical and spiritual precepts?

It seems significant that a fringe movement has such wealthy and prominent backers, and worth exploring the philosophical and political precepts that led Musk and Thiel to transhumanism.

Both philosophical doctrines and moral precepts are necessary and complementary to one another for an appreciation of the virtues and as guides to the good life.