This aim is reinforced by the precepts of Universal Design or Design for All [41, 43].
Precepts are universal in their scope, whereas counsels are addressed to the few who have the capacity and inclination to pursue the life of perfection.
Efforts to bring Habre to justice are laudable, and it's particularly heartening that the case is being heard by a tribunal established by African nations operating under the concept of "universal jurisdiction," the same precept under which Belgium indicted him in 2005 on charges of crimes against humanity.
"The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal.
No. 2 is that whatever values may be religiously motivated, if you're in the public square, if you're involved in politics, I think you have to translate those moral precepts into something universal that people of different faiths or no faith at all can debate and argue and hopefully at some point come to a consensus.
Increasingly, evidence suggests that the precepts of the universal "histone code" and the molecular mechanisms that underpin reversible histone modification similarly applies to Apicomplexa, although much yet remains to be elucidated.
But he rejects this option because "the Kantian maxim" (whatever that is) is purely formal and because no "material precept" "has obtained the universal consent of moralists".
The most important precept, after all, is the universal truth of suffering.
He said he considered secular Turkey the best model for an Islamist government in Libya, argued that tolerance and pluralism should be its watchwords and said it should rest on only those precepts of Islamic law that are "universal human values".
Positive law must conform in its content to some basic precepts of natural law, that is, universal morality, in order to become law in the first place.
