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Morality From Freedom
1,612 wordsFreedom and Reason in Kant Alice Fur nari 24 /2/97 Morality, Kant says, cannot be regarded as a set of rules which prescribe the means necessary to the achievement of a given end; its rules must be obeyed without consideration of the consequences that will follow from doing so or not. A principle that presupposes a desired object as the determinant of the will cannot give rise to a moral law; that is, the morality of an act of will cannot be determined by the matter or content of the will for wh...
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Ethics On The Other Sade
4,264 wordsMy point of departure will be a passage in Lacan's Encore Seminar in which he unpacks the first "sentence" he had given his audience, or rather written for them on the blackboard, during their first meeting. Lacan had written: "Jouissance of the Other", of the Other with a capital O, "of the body of the Other who symbolizes the Other, the sign of love". A week later, Lacan returned to this dense formula, adding that it suggests the notion of an "enjoying substance". As Nestor Braunstein has show...
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Dr King
872 wordsLaw Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does English 111 February 21, 1997 Is an individual ever morally justified in breaking a man made law? I firmly believe the answer to this question is yes. If the question was stated as, is an individual ever legally justified in breaking a man made law I would have to say no. There are several reasons that have made me believe that it is morally justifiable in breaking the law; however the most convincing comes from Dr. Martin Luther King in his letter from a Birmi...
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Just And Moral Act Claims Kant
1,350 wordsWith such great minds and an awesome influence that seems boundless, how can there not be references to the works of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant. The Fundamental Principles in the Metaphysics of Morality is used by the minority dissenting opinion to reiterate the concepts of the intrinsic dignity of man. While the majority uses the literary work the Leviathan to support their own opinions. Transforming and uplifting the case of Gregg vs. Georgia into an arena for a debate of Hobb ian and Kan...
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Is There A Moral Obligation To Obey The Law
2,990 words'Must we only obey a just law; should we obey a law because it is just to do so; or else can we not obey at all?' ESSAY The questions that shall be answered in this essay are 'Must we only obey a just law?', 'Should we obey a law because it is just to do so?' and 'Or else, can we not obey at all?' Before we can answer these questions it is important to establish what is meant by the term 'just'. 'Just' in this case means 'morally just', I think, but differences of opinion exist as to its meaning...
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Accountability For The Law
1,571 wordsThe American Heritage Dictionary defines law as 'a rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority. ' ; Since even the most primitive forms of life have been known to live by some 'rule of conduct,' ; by definition, law has existed before the dawn of the human race. However, no other species have adopted laws to fit their immediate needs more than humans. As groups of humans began living in larger and larger groups, competition for resources such as food, water, shelt...
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David Cash And Jeremy Strohmeyer
1,174 wordsShould There Be More Enforcement On Legal Requirements To Assist Others In Peril Many controversies have swirled around David Cash's failure to report Jeremy Strohmeyer's actions to police or to come to Sherrice Iverson's aid. The pleading of help cried from a person in peril usually stirred questions as to whether or not a bystander should assist the victim (s). Should there be more enforcement on legal requirements to assist others in peril or should an innocent bystander, such as David Cash, ...
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Citizens And The Laws
279 wordsIn the dialogue 'Crito,' Socrates is faced with the proposal of from prison. In the following conversation he tries to establish whether an act like that would be just and morally justified, eventually concluding that by rejecting his sentence and trying to escape from prison he would be committing unjust and morally unjustified acts. In the end he decided to acc pet his death penalty and execution. Socrates did not come to this conclusion easily or without reasoning. His decision to escape from...
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Our Own Code Of Morality
894 wordsAre we ever morally justified in disobeying laws we consider to be immoral The answer to this question depends very much on our understanding and opinion on the status of the law. On this issue it is likely that everyone falls into one of two broad categories. People falling into the first of these categories would be those who consider that through social contract we are obliged to obey the law, whatever the law states and regardless of our opinion on the moral status of that law and that we ar...
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Asoka's Conversion To Buddhism
1,319 wordsAsoka was one of the greatest rulers of ancient India. He was the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya of Magadha who established the first Indian empire. Chandragupta reigned for twenty-four years before relinquishing his throne in favor of his son, Bundusara (Asoka's father), who left no noticeable mark upon the empire. Asoka was born in 304 B.C. and was known in his youth as Cand a Asoka (the fierce Asoka) because of his aggressive nature. Asoka came to the throne in 270 B.C. after a power struggl...
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Law Code The Babylonian King Hammurabi
1,921 wordsA Comparison of Babylonian and Chinese Conceptions Of Law The system of laws as we know it today is based upon justice, fairness and morality. The principals that dictate these aspects are molded over many years of social progress. We lived and learned from past mistakes that span thousands of years. It is our long history and our study of it that form the basis of our legal system today. The most basic necessity for law is to maintain order, the most fundamental requisite for society to exist. ...
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Live Law
337 wordsPhilosophy of law- natural law from devine org in or from natural force positive- position that law created purely from human authority naturalist- socrates- change act of thinking ask him question hell make u answer it. Men should question world around him sacrifice own life to state religion plato- be lived everything was an illusion idea were real. Wrote idea govt, and society in the republic idea ruler were philosopher who pp begged to be ruled by aristotle- student of plato less philosopher...
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Natural Law Theory For King
1,601 wordsThis paper is about the world, but I've never written it. Editing Resources Other Resources Hosted by pair Networks A Critique of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Version of Natural Law Theory Paradoxically, Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail,' initially uses classical natural law theory to defend his actions, but immediately thereafter contradicts a fundamental tenet of this theory and relies on a 'weaker' version of natural law. In doing so, King must attempt to formula...
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Own Culture Since Conventional Moral Relativism
1,188 wordsThe Endless Quest for the Universalization of Morality Throughout history, philosophers have been preoccupied with the notion of a universal "right" and "wrong". Philosophers want to have a sort of morality measuring stick that would enable them to judge a person's decision as being morally right or wrong, independent of the situation and circumstances that led to that decision. Since an Universal Law of Morality hasn't been discovered yet, philosophers have to use various moral theories to eval...
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Morality And Law
320 wordsMorality and law Law is rules that established by authority or custom, regulating the behavior of members of a community. Morality is principles of good behavior, conforming to moral principles; goodness or rightness. Morality plays a very important role in the law system. Both law and morality are the controlling mechanism in the society. Not any communities can be built up or kept in order without either of them. Law will be useless without the existence of morality, vice versa. They support e...
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One's Personal Moral Beliefs
554 wordsIn A Nietzsche Reader, Nietzsche's views on morality are outlined. Although his ideas are bold and pointed, they also are at times contradictory. Many of his concepts and arguments are more thought provoking than practical. It would be a difficult task to maintain a strong set of ethics, while at the same time be a true follower of Nietzsche. Not only would it be difficult because of the wide variation in the way he defines morality, but it would also be difficult to find the median between the ...
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Good Samaritan Law
1,596 wordsThe definition of good and bad can be divided into the good and the bad. Every person lives by their own ideals of what is "good" and what they think is "bad". One ideal example of the moral vs. immoral viewpoint is outlined by the Good Samaritan Law. This law offers immunity from liability for a person if they choose to assist another in an emergency. In order for me to have come to the decision that the law ought to require people to be Good Samaritans, there were many important factors and ph...
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Conventional Stage Throughout Sophocles's Play Antigone
1,054 wordsAntigone With Kohlberg's Princeples Antigone With Kohlberg's Princeples Essay, Research Paper Categorizing Humanity People with different views of the way humanity and its laws function reach certain stages of moral development. Kohlberg presents us with these stages of moral development. The individual is categorized under his or her moral priority and the way he or she would handle unexpected situations. In Sophocles? play, Antigone, characters illustrate Kohlberg's moral development principle...
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