Moral Responsibility to Disobey Unjust Laws? 
.... King states that an unjust
law is no
law at all (King, 721). He defines a just
law as a man-made code that squares with the
moral law or the
law of God. ....
(1169
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Kant on Moral philosophy & Ethics
.... For Kant, to act for the sake of duty means to act out of reverence for the
moral law. He says that a good will is manifested in acting for the sake of duty. ....
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The moral theory of Immanuel Kant
.... For Kant, the practical or
moral law is universal, and all principles of conduct must also be universal if they are to be considered
moral. ....
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Jewish Law and American Law
.... Finally, both bodies of
law do link
law to
moral behavior and share a common background though they differ in many respects. Brandwein, I. (2001). ....
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The concept of natural law
.... Natural
law requires a minimal
moral content as a prerequisite for viewing something as in contravention of the
law, while the positivist school holds that the ....
(1693
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Antigone's Moral Decision in Sophocles' Antigone
.... I am also considering what all rational beings must do, for if a
moral law or rule is valid for me as a rational being, it must be valid for all rational beings ....
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Ethical Theories & Moral Dilemmas
.... They seek their own goals guided by reason: "Because the
moral law is the
law of reason, rational beings are the embodiment of the
moral law itself" (Rachels ....
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Natural Law and Ethics
.... experience, and to the degree they locate such a vision in human reason and a floor of physical security, then natural
law provides a
moral standard against ....
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Law and Sexual Morality
.... other institutions. Devlin recognized the problem of identifying which
moral code the
law is supposed to protect. He suggested, for ....
(2708
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Moral Philosophies & Drug Usage
....
Law had a
moral dimension for Aquinas and was based on reason, the means through which the natural
law could be comprehended by human beings. ....
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Natural Law Perspective
.... that the rules be applied correctly, but the morality of the
law need not be subjected to scrutiny" (p. 5). Thus, the
law is inherently neither
moral or amoral ....
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The Enlightenment and Moral Theory
.... Kant sees the practical or
moral law as universal, and all principles of conduct must also involve this universality if they are to be considered
moral (189-190 ....
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Issue of Free Will One of the insights to emerge clea
.... This relates to Kant's conception of the
moral law, and he says that to act for the sake of duty means to act out of reverence for the
moral law. ....
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Moral/Theological Issues in Economics
.... business ethics. Business ethics means a great deal more that obeying the civil
law and not violating the
moral law. It means imagining ....
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The Charge of Moral Relativism
.... Here democracy must bend to natural
law if it intends to survive itself. Dolhenty, Jonathan, Ph.D. "The Myth of
Moral Relativism." The Jonathan Dolhenty Archive ....
(1599
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Theory of Law
.... appear in retrospect to have been exaggerated, but, taken as a whole, his career amply demonstrates both his efforts to use the
law to achieve
moral ends and ....
(4569
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Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
.... In his study, Murray (1991) examined the effects of a year-long university-based clinical
law experience on the
moral judgment of third year
law students (N=14 ....
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Insanity in Criminal Law
.... blame. This argument contends that abolition would weaken the criminal
law's claim to the
moral respect of the community. A closely ....
(1959
8
)
Tort Law
.... are two kinds of goals in tort
law, Coleman says, one economic and the other
moral: "It may be more useful to think of the
moral demands of tort
law not as ....
(1617
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Moral theories of Mill & Kant
.... subjective. He introduces the will of God into the
moral equation in order to connect man's free will to a higher
law. Mill does ....
(1839
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Moral Analysis of Drug Addiction
.... to be
moral those in power must act to promote the just distribution of social goods. By imposing harsh criminal sanctions on addicts, lawmakers and
law ....
(2237
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Derivation of Islamic Law
.... especially by Western culture. As a source of
law and
moral guidance, it forms the basis for both
law and ethics. In spite of the ....
(4696
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Machiavelli v. Aquinas in Compelling Arguments in Favor of Their ...
.... The natural
law was the source of Aquinas' commitment to
moral rules and like Aristotle, he felt that being just is the perfection of virtue in dealing with ....
(1004
4
)
Natural Rights & Natural Law
.... At the core of Nozick's libertarian conception of natural
law and natural rights .... an understanding of justice that conceives of right as "a
moral category given ....
(2373
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Letter From Birmingham Jail
.... the clergy. In so doing, he develops his notions of man-made
law versus
moral law and just laws versus unjust laws. He, too, criticizes ....
(901
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)
MLK
.... Antigone, like Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jacobs and Equiano, understands that the individual owes a higher obedience to
moral law than State
law. ....
(1008
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Kant and Practical Reason
.... dividing line between conformity and morality lies: For if any action is to be morally good, it is not enough that it should conform to the
moral law - it must ....
(1698
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Plato and King: Crito and A Letter from Birmingham Jail
.... As King (232) writes, "A just
law is a man-made code that squares with the
moral law or the
law of God. An unjust
law is a code ....
(1035
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Moral Code in the Qur'an
.... to be the model of social conduct: "Muhammad's
moral intuitive perception rose to the highest point and became identified with the
moral law itself" (Rahman 33 ....
(1632
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Three Positions on Abortion
.... Once
moral law has been abandoned, utter chaos is likely. The solution that antiabortion advocates see is to "bring[] positive
law ....
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