Sentence examples for supreme norms from inspiring English sources

However, secondly, the respective ethical system (and its "supreme norms") itself can only be vindicated by pragmatic maxims.

Indeed, there is a deep analogy between this distinction drawn by Carnap and Feigl's distinction between the validation within an ethical system and the vindication of the ethical system (and its supreme norms) itself.

That means that "moral judgments are to be reconstructed as knowledge-claims and as subject to validation (or invalidation) by virtue of their accordance (or non-accordance) with the supreme norms of a given ethical system" (Feigl 1981, p. 388).

Protestant churches have usually viewed their synods or assemblies as competent to "interpret" doctrine under the supreme norm of Scripture and with the guidelines provided by the earlier creeds and confessions that come from the general tradition of the "church universal" or their particular tradition.

By associating the time weighted norm with the supreme norm, we disclose the dynamics impact in ILC, which can be assessed by global uniform bound and monotonicity in iteration domain.

In "Monsieur Verdoux," Chaplin — borrowing a suggestion from Orson Welles — cast himself as a dapper Bluebeard, a refined serial killer who murders his many wives and goes to the gallows with a supreme contempt for the laws and norms of the society that drove him to such desperate extremes.

The High Renaissance once embodied the supreme standard, the paragon of beauty and nobility, the norm of all norms.

Through strengthening the rule of law, utilizing what is described in the US Constitution as the "supreme law of the land, --treaties--norms are set, --treaties--normslt, --treaties--normsstablished and safety enhanced.

This puritanical education, proceeding in a climate of austerity, had as its sole norm the interests of the state, erected into a supreme category; the Spartan was trained under a strict discipline to obey blindly the orders of his superiors.

What's speeding this process is both a combination of judicial intervention (the supreme court rulings on Doma and Prop 8 in California) and also shifting popular norms.

Cats and Asian Americans reign supreme on Youtube, but in Hollywood it's another story: Discrimination, stereotypes and exclusion are the norm for Asians, both on television and the silver screen.