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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MLK
.... Antigone, like Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jacobs and Equiano, understands that the individual owes a higher obedience to
moral law than State
law. ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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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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 ....
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The Morality of Taking a Life
.... "Thou shalt not kill," as the commandment is phrased, is seen as a
moral law that is an imperative with no truth value--it is simply a statement: A doubt of ....
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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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Locke 2nd Treatise on Gov
.... The king is responsible to the people and community, with power having limits due to
moral law and constitutional traditions and conventions. ....
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Catholic Doctrine and Abortion
.... views. The Catholic Church views abortion from the moment of conception forward as a violation of Divine and
moral law. The major ....
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Slavery
.... injustices like slavery and the necessary forces required to rid society of such ills: social
law must be equal for all men; there is a
moral law by which men ....
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Kant's Views on Capital Punishment
.... provided.
Moral law is formulated by Kant as based upon the "categorical imperative" (Solomon and Higgins 212). This represents ....
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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. ....
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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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Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail and Plato's Apology
.... King says that a just
law "is a man-made code that squares with the
moral law or the
law of God" and that an unjust
law "is out of harmony" with
moral law (King ....
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Crime and Punishment Baccaria & Dostoevsky
.... Raskolnikov thinks he is above the
moral law implied by Kant's categorical imperative. Acting morally for others is good, but some people are above
moral law. ....
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Martin Luther King Jr's Leadership Style
.... King says that a just
law "is a man-made code that squares with the
moral law or the
law of God" and that an unjust
law "is out of harmony" with
moral law (King ....
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Locke's Second Treatise of Government
.... B. Man in the state of nature was capable of reason and of knowing the
moral law. .... In other words, there is a natural
moral law which all men can understand. ....
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Doctrine of Judicial Review
.... He specifically warns that there is "no overarching ahistorical structure (the Nature of Man, the laws of human behavior, the
Moral Law, the Nature of Society ....
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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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Steven Spielberg's Amistad
.... He 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 that is out ....
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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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Ethical Structures with Religious Basis
.... 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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Comparison of Beliefs of Hobbes and Locke
.... Locke, on the other hand, as we have seen, argues that people through their reason can perceive the
moral law and follow it. However ....
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Jewish Law and American Law
.... Lloyd (1970, p. 51) states that "the Hebraic approach to the
moral law, with its appeal to personal inspiration and the divine afflatus, inevitably stressed ....
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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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Three Religions
.... In Confucianism, we have the development of the Higher Man. The Higher Man is the self-cultivated man who above all has respect and obedience for
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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DOGMATISM AND ABSOLUTE KNOWING
.... The second Critique discovers in the obligation of the
moral law the aliquid inconcussible, which, as the first Critique taught us, is not to be found in ....
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The concept of natural law
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law, the state would have the right to enforce a standard of morality only if the
law being enforced has
moral content derived from natural
law, meaning an ....
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