Sentence examples for primary precepts of from inspiring English sources
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".
"That abortion and its advocacy violate a primary precept of natural law reinforced by the Catholic Church's explicit doctrine is a mere bagatelle.
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.
For both Hayek and Popper, the primary motivation for respecting the precepts of methodological individualism was to avoid "grand theory" in the style of Auguste Comte, G.W.F.
Stalin deviated from these clear and plain precepts of Lenin.
They subvert precepts of genre, story, and technique.
It is there that Osama received his first formal education in the precepts of violent jihad.
EARLY diagnosis has become one of the most fundamental precepts of modern medicine.
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