Through the writing of Everhard and, particularly, the distant future perspective of Meredith, London demonstrated his belief in the historical materialism of Marxism which some have interpreted as predicting an inevitable succession from feudalism through capitalism and socialism, ending in an a period without a state, based on Marx's maxim of ' from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

* John D. Caputo attempts to explain deconstruction in a nutshell by stating that: " Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or a pithy maxim — the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.

This view is frequently summarised by the maxim an unjust law is not a true law, lex iniusta non est lex, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

However, some legal scholars criticize this, because generally, in the legal systems of Continental Europe where the maxim was first developed, " penal law " was taken to mean statutory penal law, so as to create a guarantee to the individual, considered as a fundamental right, that he would not be prosecuted for an action or omission that was not considered a crime according to the statutes passed by the legislators in force at the time of the action or omission, and that only those penalties that were in place when the infringement took place would be applied.

The words originate from the phrasing of the principle in the Latin maxim Stare decisis et non quieta movere: " to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed.

This view is frequently summarized by the maxim: an unjust law is not a true law, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

The notion of the Program involves " an act to edit function and human activities " as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the beginning of the 20th century.

Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.

That led to his wholehearted embrace of Hegelianism, as he became bedazzled by Hegel's famous maxim ; " Everything that exists is rational ".

It was Peirce's own maxim that " Facts cannot be explained by a hypothesis more extraordinary than these facts themselves ; and of various hypotheses the least extraordinary must be adopted.

The influence of Flores Magón on Zapata can be seen in the Zapatistas ' Plan de Ayala, but even more noticeably in their slogan ( this slogan was never used by Zapata ) " Tierra y libertad " or " land and liberty ", the title and maxim of Flores Magón's most famous work.

As referenced by CSI member Martin Gardner, a maxim regularly put into practice by the organization is H. L. Mencken's " one horse-laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms.

This maxim means that when individuals are required, by their agreements or by law, to perform some act of legal significance, Equity will regard that act as having been done as it ought to have been done, even before it has actually happened.

This maxim is often displaced by statutory limitations, but even where a limitation period has not yet run, equity may apply the doctrine of " laches ," an equitable term used to describe delay sufficient to defeat an equitable claim.

Gournay was delighted by the Colbert-LeGendre anecdote, and forged it into a larger maxim all his own: " Laissez faire et laissez passer " (' Let do and let pass ').

" The actual text of that maxim, as translated by Dennis W. Hauck is " That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing ".

" The ' universal connection ' referred to here is Kant's categorical imperative: " act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Nicholas Roerich managed to continue and develop into a profound and feasible doctrine the famous maxim proclaimed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “ Beauty will save the World !”

Bullock's Guardian obituary commented that " Bullock's famous maxim ' Hitler was jobbed into power by backstairs intrigue ' has stood the test of time.

Devotion to the traditional works of mercy exemplified the Catholic Reformation's reaffirmation of salvation through faith and works, and repudiation of the maxim sola scriptura emphasized by Protestants sects.

The maxim fiat justitia, ruat caelum (" Let justice be done, though the heavens fall "), used by Lord Mansfield in Somersett's Case and in reversing the outlawry of John Wilkes, and in the alternate form fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus by Ferdinand of Habsburg, is sometimes attributed to Piso, but this is disputed.

The maxim states that there can be no crime committed, and no punishment meted out, without a violation of penal law as it existed at the time.

All utilitarian theories are based upon the maxim of utility, which states that good is whatever provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Several U. S. states, including California, Georgia, and Texas impose a " tender " condition precedent upon borrowers seeking to challenge a wrongful foreclosure, which is rooted in the maxim of equity that " he who seeks equity must first do equity ," as well as the common law rule that the party seeking rescission of a contract must first return all benefits received under the contract.

* Proportionality ( political maxim ), A maxim which states that any layer of government should not take any action that exceeds that which is necessary to achieve the objective of government

The principle of proportionality is a political maxim which states that no layer of government should take any action that exceeds that which is necessary to achieve the objective of government ( Regardless of intent of objective ).

A simplified maxim on the subject states " An atheist would say, ' I don't believe God exists '; an agnostic would say, ' I don't know whether or not God exists '; and an ignostic would say, ' I don't know what you mean when you say, " God exists " '.

Most criminal law systems in developed states exclude mistake of law as a defense, because allowing defendants to invoke their own ignorance of the law would breach the public policy represented by the Latin maxim: ignorantia legis neminem excusat.

Von Feuerbach was the originator of the famous maxim nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali: " There's no crime and hence there shall not be punishment if at the time no penal law existed "

The story serves to illustrate the maxim: " if at first you don't succeed, try try again.

Socrates thinks that this idea must be identical in meaning, if not in actual words, to Protagoras ' famous maxim " Man is the measure of all things.

A maxim is considered immoral if:

Thus, we cannot will that our subjective maxim of lying be universalised without self-contradiction: if everyone were to behave thus, such behaviour would not work.

He argues that if Japan had proclaimed this maxim at the beginning of the war, and if the Japanese had actually acted on that idea,

If they are acting on a bad maxim, e. g. " I will lie ", then their action is wrong, even if some good consequences come of it.

Fest's father asked his sons to write down and remember a maxim taken from the Gospel of Matthew: Etiam si omnes-ego non ( Even if all others do-not me ).

For Kant, a principle can be either a mere maxim if it is based on the agent's desires or a law if it applies universally.

Simply put, this criterion amounts to a thought experiment: to attempt to universalize the maxim ( imagine a world where all people necessarily acted in this way in the relevant circumstances ) and then see if the maxim and its associated action would still be conceivable in such a world.

A friend of both James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, Paul defied Ernest Hemingway's maxim that " if you mentioned Joyce twice to Stein, you were dead.

The same principle can be applied when neither party is at fault if they have equal right to the disputed property, in which case the maxim of law becomes in aequali jure ( melior est conditio possidentis ).

She gleefully defied the maxim that if you hadn ’ t anything nice to say about somebody, you shouldn ’ t bother saying it.

The summary of the case reports, " Mr. Wilson had given no power to Noarth to transact his business ; but if he even had, it is a maxim, that delegata potestas non potest delegari.