Sentence examples for rules and precepts from inspiring English sources

There are ecclesiastical rules and precepts that were once effective, but now they have lost value or meaning.

But Hume had a Scottish counterpart, Lord Kames, and Lord Kames was equally convinced that traits like beauty, sublimity, and grandeur were indeed reducible to a rational system of rules and precepts.

Where the jurist detects deficiencies, new rules and precepts must be developed that demonstrably accord with the utility principle.

If morality did not have these effects on our passions and actions, moral rules and precepts would be pointless, as would our efforts to be virtuous.

Just be sure to conform to their rules and precepts, and to make a donation even if it's not required.

The priory became known for its strict observance of the Augustinian rule and religious precepts.

The conflicts in Plato's case and in Sartre's case arose because there is more than one moral precept (using 'precept' to designate rules and principles), more than one precept sometimes applies to the same situation, and in some of these cases the precepts demand conflicting actions.

We acquire habits of conduct, not by constructing a way of living upon rules or precepts learned by heart and subsequently practiced, but by living with people who habitually behave in a certain manner: we acquire habits of conduct in the same way as we acquire our native language.

Clement discovered deep philosophical truths in the plain-sounding narratives and precepts of the Bible.

There is a Talmudic capacity for detail and scrupulousness in legal and ethical prescriptions and precepts.

By contrast, Xunzi seems to rule out the existence of natural predispositions with moral content when he claims that the sage kings generated ritual principles and precepts of moral duty.