All 4 Uses of
precept
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I have carried out every moral precept of our age.†
Chpt 1.6 *precept = a rule for behavior
- We put into practice that noble historical precept: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.†
Chpt 1.10
- It's some sort of fraud, very ancient and very vast-and the key to break it is: to check every premise they teach us, to question every precept, to—" She whirled to him at a sudden thought, but she cut the motion and the words in the same instant: the next words— would have been the ones she did not want to say to him.†
Chpt 2.1
- Instead of the disgrace he had dreaded, there was an air of awed uncertainty in people's manner-uncertainty of their own moral precepts, awe in the presence of two persons who dared to be certain of being right.†
Chpt 3.5precepts = rules for behavior
Definition:
a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine