Sentence examples for supreme principles from inspiring English sources

Kant does not claim to derive these duties from the CI or the supreme principles of right or virtue alone.

In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and corroborate the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative.

To prove this, he started from a supreme principle, the ego, which was supposed to be independent and sovereign, so that all other knowledge was deduced from it.

Fichte did not assert that this supreme principle was self-evident but rather that it had to be postulated by pure thought.

7. Since this supreme principle is absolutely simple and undetermined (or devoid of specific traits), human knowledge of it must be radically different from any other kind of knowledge.

In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries.

Plotinus always insisted that the One, or Good, is beyond the reach of thought or language; what he said about this supreme principle was intended only to point the mind along the way to it, not to describe or define it.

To do this, he needed to perform surgery on Kant's Formula of Universal Law, the formula that Kant had claimed to be the supreme principle of morality: "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law".

Broad attempts to articulate the supreme principle needed.

Wyclif's God is simply the supreme principle of the universe from which everything necessarily flows.

This "supreme principle of pure reason" provides the background assumption under which the metaphysician proceeds.