Calvin's approach to worship later came to be called the regulative principle. From Wordnik.com. [Reformed Baptist Fellowship] Reference
Under their regulative ideas all human beings, not. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
They are also merely external, regulative of outward conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
We can have a regulative end without a corresponding obligation. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Arguments for the Existence of God] Reference
The solution to the dilemma is to adopt teleology as a regulative principle. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Leibniz] Reference
That is using teleology as a regulative principle, in Kant's sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
In short, it has no constitutive but merely a regulative role vis-Ã -vis the sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt] Reference
This urgency is why justice has no horizon of expectation (either regulative or messianic). From Wordnik.com. [Jacques Derrida] Reference
On the first point: the justice which obeys a regulative law is in the reason, or intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The best constitution still serves as a regulative ideal by which to evaluate existing systems. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Political Theory] Reference
This regulative function of natural law is obviously much more disputed than its supplementary role. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
These are just a few of many examples of religious emotion-regulative thought in Kierkegaard's writings. From Wordnik.com. [Emotions in the Christian Tradition] Reference
John Martin Fischer (1994) distinguishes two sorts of control over one's actions: guidance and regulative. From Wordnik.com. [Free Will] Reference
It then emerges that such statements serve the regulative function of licensing and censoring certain uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Normativity of Meaning and Content] Reference
How can truth play a regulative role, it may be asked, unless we already have ways of deciding what is true?. From Wordnik.com. [Social Epistemology] Reference
This enables him to establish a concept of right in the regulative authority of self-love over the pas - sions. From Wordnik.com. [RIGHT AND GOOD] Reference
The second type shows impairment of the regulative mechanism permitting rapid rise of the intra-ocular pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
They are neither mere linguistic labels nor metaphysical entities but regulative ideas, historiographical tools. From Wordnik.com. [ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference
With this theory, long a regulative idea of our world, preaching was forced to come to some sort of an understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Such rules are the so-called constitutive rules, as opposed to regulative rules (the terminology is taken from Kant). From Wordnik.com. [Him] Reference
First, left to its own devices, the common good is merely a regulative concept, like zoning, and not a goal in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed] Reference
Although truth may have no explanatory role to play in the social studies of knowledge, it can play a regulative role. From Wordnik.com. [Social Epistemology] Reference
The former is in a sense a regulative and conservative principle which lays down limits beyond which variation may not stray. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The licensing systems and other regulative measures necessary to any organized society become tools of suppression and monopoly. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
The periodical assembly of the clergy of France is only an assembly of regulative commissioners for all the clergy of the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The opposing propo - sitions, denied their metaphysical pretensions, become regulative principles or maxims for the conduct of inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON] Reference
Examples of such emotion-regulative discourse are the following: Works of Love about the emotion of love; “The Expectancy of Faith”. From Wordnik.com. [Emotions in the Christian Tradition] Reference
= -- Doubtless it will be always true that the regulative function in its largest sense will be the main business of the city government. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The scriptures were taken as the final authority, as containing eternal principles which were regulative for all ages and on all peoples. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination] Reference
Kant's view that ideas of reason can function as regulative principles is developed in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic in the. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophy of Science] Reference
Such kind of discriminative advertisement would still appear as the media lack self-regulating practice and regulative law isn't ready yet. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan: Racial Commercials Everywhere] Reference
Mr. Potter argues that Rousseau used the state-of-nature concept as "a regulative ideal" by which to measure how far we had strayed from a lost harmony. From Wordnik.com. [Why It's So Hard To Get Real] Reference
Indeed, the great regulative force of every human spirit is not so much the present and the past -- present opportunity and past experience -- as future ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
He regarded it rather as the basic regulative principle, guiding reason in its organization of the data of experience by indi - cating what problems it must solve. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
"Our investigations this year strengthened our knowledge and skills in terms of legal frameworks and regulative stipulations regarding a number of matters," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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