Moral Responsibility to Disobey Unjust Laws? 
Moral Responsibility to Disobey
Unjust Laws? A person's .... argues that there are two types of
laws: just and
unjust (King, 721). He contends ....
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Plato and King: Crito and A Letter from Birmingham Jail
.... Instead, he views the state as making
unjust laws, but since he swore to obey those
laws he argues "a little more life" is not worth breaking the "most sacred ....
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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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Freedom through Satyagraha
.... British. To counteract this, Gandhi advocated that Indians begin to oppose any
unjust laws visited upon them by the British. In ....
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Concept of Civil Disobedience
.... This plan drew upon the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and called for non-violent resistance (a form of civil disobedience) to combat
unjust laws and racism. ....
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Martin Luther King, Jr. & Socrates on Civil Disobedience
.... This plan drew upon the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and called for non-violent resistance (a form of civil disobedience) to combat
unjust laws and racism. ....
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ML King, Jr. & Socrates
.... Like Socrates, King, Jr. did not believe that
unjust laws required man to obey them. .... We will not obey
unjust laws or submit to
unjust practices. ....
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Antigone & the Concept of Justice
.... In that letter he chose to distinguish between just and
unjust laws, in a way that mirrors the situation of Antigone's struggle. ....
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Relevance of Antigone to Contemporary Ethics
.... In that letter he chose to distinguish between just and
unjust laws, in a way that mirrors the situation of Antigone's struggle. ....
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Ethics: When is justifiable to violate the law?
.... the war and slavery as examples of violation of that conceptualization, Thoreau develops the more general principle of noncooperation with
unjust laws, with a ....
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Essays Free Speech, Juvenile Justice, Military Service
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Unjust laws like the one Creon uses to offend Antigone are made by men but they transgress the higher
laws of heaven. We see that Martin Luther King, Jr. ....
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Socrates and Crito
.... The real injustice is the government, the author of
unjust laws. .... That is how
unjust laws change and how we keep the dream of justice alive. Orwell, George. ....
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Civil Disobedience Action
.... His view of utility as a rationale is hardly compelling--making the government more efficient by obeying
unjust laws does not seem rational on its face. ....
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Antigone's Tragedy
.... Creon. As Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "àone has a moral responsibility to disobey
unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine ....
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Conflict Between Antigone & King Creon
.... Creon. As Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "àone has a moral responsibility to disobey
unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine ....
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Strategies for fighting Social Injustice
.... Instead, Thoreau "defends the validity of conscientious objection to
unjust laws, which ought to be transgressed at once. Although ....
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John Stuart Mill on Utilitarianism
.... even though it be not judged to be
unjust but only inexpedient, while others would confine the license of disobedience to the case of
unjust laws (Mill 43). ....
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NEW ENGLAND TRANSCENDENTALISM
.... just
laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey
unjust laws...Now what is the difference between the two? How does ....
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The Individual & the State
.... disobeyed, even though it be not judged to be
unjust but only inexpedient, while others would confine the license of disobedience to the case of
unjust laws. . ....
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Individual Rights and Responsibilites: Three Different ...
.... his most famous political work, the Treatise on Civil Disobedience, Thoreau vehemently defends the individual's right to conscientiously object to
unjust laws. ....
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Rawl's Theories of Justice
.... even though it be not judged to be
unjust but only inexpedient, while others would confine the license of disobedience to the case of
unjust laws (Mill 43). ....
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Doctrine of Judicial Review
.... He wants to go beyond the judicial system altogether and recommends that individuals simply stop obeying
unjust laws and supporting the government which ....
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John Rawls' Conception of Justice
.... even though it be not judged to be
unjust but only inexpedient, while others would confine the license of disobedience to the case of
unjust laws (Mill 43). ....
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
.... Birmingham Jail, in it King undermines the criticism of the clergy and develops his notion of man-made law versus moral law and just
laws versus
unjust laws. ....
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John Stuart Mill on Morality
.... disobeyed, even though it be not judged to be
unjust but only inexpedient, while others would confine the license of disobedience to the case of
unjust laws. . ....
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John Stuart Mill
.... disobeyed, even though it be not judged to be
unjust but only inexpedient, while others would confine the license of disobedience to the case of
unjust laws. ....
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The Declaration of Independence
.... did in this small book was to enunciate important principles of individual human rights and the specific right of the people to challenge
unjust laws and an ....
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
.... did in this small book was to enunciate important principles of individual human rights and the specific right of the people to challenge
unjust laws and an ....
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
.... did in this small book was to enunciate important principles of individual human rights and the specific right of the people to challenge
unjust laws and an ....
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Workplace Ethics
.... and Dr. Martin Luther King argued that people of good conscience had a duty to violate
unjust laws; and therefore some unlawful actions were ethical and moral. ....
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