Sentence examples for primary precept of from inspiring English sources

"That abortion and its advocacy violate a primary precept of natural law reinforced by the Catholic Church's explicit doctrine is a mere bagatelle.

While it is far from clear whether there was a single way that Aquinas proceeded in establishing moral norms from the primary precepts of the natural law in the Summa Theologiae, John Finnis has argued (Finnis 1998, p. 126) that Aquinas employed this master rule approach: on his view, Aquinas held that this master rule is the rule of universal love, that one should love one's neighbor as oneself.

Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, considered them to be the "primary precepts of justice and all law, and natural reason gives immediate assent to them as being plainly evident principles".

Thus, conscience was considered an act or judgment of practical reason that began with synderesis, the structured development of our innate remnant awareness of absolute good (which he categorised as involving the five primary precepts proposed in his theory of Natural Law) into an acquired habit of applying moral principles.

— privatization — had become a central precept of the conservative movement.

The precept of that first experience has stayed with me.

I would have ten kids," he beams, and that is a precept of his religious faith.

Leo's 432 letters and 96 sermons expound his precept of papal primacy in church jurisdiction.

No, this is not a precept of the faith of the most famous Mormon in rock.

Moreover, the code seems at odds with Indonesia's constitutionally enshrined precept of "unity in diversity".

Marion violates nearly every precept of proper jump shooting — balance, ball position, arm extension, follow-through.