Principle
A starting point of being, knowing or acting, such as a first truth or a basic rule.
Works to read
- The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research by National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1979 (drafted 1976–1978)
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley, 1710 · Great Books
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud, 1920 (English 1922) · Great Books
- On First Principles (De Principiis) by Origen, c. 220–230
- On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo, 1817
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant, 1785 · Great Books
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, 1739-1740
- On the Heavens by Aristotle, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- Metaphysics by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- Principia by Isaac Newton, 1687 · Great Books
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I by Ibn Sina (Avicenna), c. 1025
- The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle, 1661
Passages
From the texts
Evidently then such a principle is the most certain of all; which principle this is, let us proceed to say.
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
This last principle is the same as the one that precedes it, with, however, a different turn of expression.
— Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations
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