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So it re-shows the brain makes predictions and fundamentally changes the precepts.
I suspect he never really said this, because we don't know what Hippocrates really said, but we do know for sure that one of the great Greek physicians said the following, and it has been recorded in one of the books attributed to Hippocrates, and the book is called "Precepts."
Many people worry that a universal morality would require moral precepts that admit of no exceptions.
The downtime, and there is plenty, is occupied with washed up actors and soon to be washed up actors who deliver their lines based on dubious scientific precepts badly.
I can go on about the insulting, racist precepts this movie is all about.
The ICTY has overseen the development of a phenomenal body of jurisprudence that brings life to the abstract precepts of international law.
It would be better to stop the twentieth-century ideological pendulum and return to some older precepts.
In short, we are far from having developed a reliable set of precepts and policies to guide us toward a safer future.
But some of the simplest and most important precepts, formulated well before these micro-foundations were well established--such as the fact that temporary income tax cuts are unlikely to be effective, while temporary investment tax credits can be extremely powerful--are as valid today as ever.
It is, for example, one of the first precepts of one of Japan’s major ethical traditions, Buddhism.
Mr. Tung, whose moral precepts are informed by a doctrinaire interpretation of Confucian classics emphasizing obedience to one's superiors, seems oblivious to what China views as the fundamental challenge that it now faces.
There are two central precepts of Islamic finance: absolute prohibition on charging interest on financial transactions, and high moral standards on the part of lenders and borrowers.
These “Third Way” precepts may seem elementary common sense.
While economic theory and the evidence underlying these precepts developed over the last quarter century, they remain disputed.
– and giving the OAS teeth beyond suspension of members for violating its precepts.
But focusing exclusively on what is believed and practiced overlooks a potentially far more important question: how religious precepts are believed and practiced.
This restatement of fundamental precepts restored Confucianism to a primacy in China and neighboring states that remained unchallenged for 700 years.
But new medical technologies also offer applications that fall outside of these conventional precepts.
The Charter’s 12 precepts to guide stakeholders’ decision-making should be integrated into relevant legislation and regulations by the Lebanese government, Parliament, applicable regulatory agencies, and civil-society actors such as the Lebanon Oil and Gas Initiative.
If no other qualification is added, then all those who subscribe to these precepts must be regarded as Muslims.
Stephen P. Cohen, a renowned analyst of India, has argued that, since the country gained independence, its“officials have inculcated the precepts of George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796: that India, like the United States, inhabits its own geographical sphere, in India’s case between the Himalayas and the Wide Indian Ocean, and thus [it] is in a position of both dominance and detachment.
And, in the wider triumph of the precepts of financial deregulation and market completion, both interests and ideology have clearly played a role.
Fortunately, there are some policy precepts and ideas that governments would do well to invest their political capital in if they want innovation and its attendant prosperity to resume.
But it is obvious only because we already know that groups like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Taliban are not obeying the precepts of Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, or Hinduism.
The Islamic State's spokesmen insist on following the original precepts laid down by the Prophet Mohammed and his earliest followers, understood literally and with no adjustment for different circumstances.
This is dangerous, because their signature approach is the selective and inconsistent application of legal or quasi-legal principles and precepts, which is the very opposite of the rule of law’s dependence on generality and predictability.
Yet holding firm to our moral precepts must go hand in hand with a realistic assessment of constraints.
The nine precepts – namely, a sovereign’s right to initiate a debt restructuring, sovereign immunity, equitable treatment of creditors, (super) majority restructuring, transparency, impartiality, legitimacy, sustainability, and good faith in negotiations – form the rudiments of an effective international rule of law.
Maritain also insisted that Christians, while they should take into account religious precepts, had to act as citizens first.
For economists to misrepresent their policy decisions as mere technical matters violates basic ethical and professional precepts.