Moral Responsibility to Disobey Unjust Laws? 
.... oppose abortion laws if they consider them
unjust. And Plato would disagree with Thoreau and King on the grounds that a person who chooses to
live under the ....
(1169
5
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Plato
.... and its defect is injustice. A just soul or just man will
live well while the
unjust will not. It therefore follows that only the ....
(808
3
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Antigone's Tragedy
.... As such, she is willing to meet her death with dignity rather than
live in an
unjust society whose laws are enforced by the mighty, whether they are moral or ....
(1384
6
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Conflict Between Antigone & King Creon
.... As such, she is willing to meet her death with dignity rather than
live in an
unjust society whose laws are enforced by the mighty, whether they are moral or ....
(1384
6
)
Socrates' Last Error
.... and
live such a life and die according to such beliefs and not be involved in contradiction and irony. It is almost as if a just man needs an
unjust law in ....
(1040
4
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The Individual & the State
....
live according to the laws of the state, but this is not an absolute duty. The element of utility takes precedence so that some laws might be considered
unjust ....
(1641
7
)
The Practice of Justice & Injustice
.... The strength of this argument is that it makes irrelevant the issue of whether the
unjust live better materially than the just. ....
(2037
8
)
Socrates' Argument in Plato's Crito
.... defect is injustice. He believes that a just soul or a just man will
live well while the
unjust will not. It therefore follows that ....
(815
3
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Socrates' Argument in Crito
.... defect is injustice. He believes that a just soul or a just man will
live well while the
unjust will not. It therefore follows that ....
(815
3
)
Condition of Human Suffering
.... the wise and just Socrates, condemned to death by an
unjust Athenian democratic .... Even for the last comer, if he chooses wisely and will
live diligently, there ....
(1652
7
)
Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"
.... Because they know they
live in an
unjust society where men oppress women and rigidly define their roles and the expectations associated with them, the women ....
(1043
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The Values of Socrates
.... wished for this protection, he could have left Athens and gone to
live somewhere else .... He fights an
unjust trial, but he accepts the right of the court to make a ....
(1143
5
)
Antigone & the Concept of Justice
.... its dictates, I will most definitely show my belief that President Bush is
unjust when I vote .... relevant both to me and all human beings, so long as we
live in a ....
(1042
4
)
Relevance of Antigone to Contemporary Ethics
.... its dictates, I will most definitely show my belief that President Bush is
unjust when I vote .... relevant both to me and all human beings, so long as we
live in a ....
(1042
4
)
Plato's Republic
.... It seems likely that few people today would want to
live in the society Plato proposes .... He is led by Socrates to state that the life of the
unjust person is ....
(1882
8
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The Trial, Sentence & Execution of Socrates
.... and a man who charges his friends to allow him to
live life as he .... statement of the relationship between the individual and society--even an
unjust society--in ....
(1663
7
)
Justice in Plato's Republic
.... injustice reigns in his soul, he is an unhappy man, just as men under an
unjust ruler are .... is his world, and if it is a just one, it is a happy place to
live.
(999
4
)
Philosophical Question of Justice
.... injustice reigns in his soul, he is an unhappy man, just as men under an
unjust ruler are .... is his world, and if it is a just one, it is a happy place to
live.
(1001
4
)
The Individual & The State
.... Even though he could save his
live by fleeing, he will not do so because .... liberating himself from prison, and his soul is not touched by the
unjust actions of ....
(2334
9
)
Socrates View in The Apology & Crito
.... Even though he could save his
live by fleeing, he will not do so because .... liberating himself from prison, and his soul is not touched by the
unjust actions of ....
(2334
9
)
China One Child
.... who
live in poverty. The one-child policy is should be one-reviled policy, both by government leaders and the international community. Such inhumane and
unjust ....
(1030
4
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The US as an Elitist System
.... the hands of elites who argue amongst themselves as if on a mountaintop while the people
live out of reach in the valley below. This is
unjust and undemocratic ....
(1853
7
)
The Heroic Ideal: Plato and Socrates
.... Two
unjust actions do not make a just one might be another way of rewording .... Those who
live such a virtuous life, like Socrates, are depicted as embodying the ....
(1285
5
)
John Stuart Mill
....
live according to the laws of the state, but this is not an absolute duty. The element of utility takes precedence so that some laws might be considered
unjust ....
(2754
11
)
John Stuart Mill on Morality
....
live according to the laws of the state, but this is not an absolute duty. The element of utility takes precedence so that some laws might be considered
unjust ....
(2778
11
)
John Stuart Mill on Utilitarianism
....
live according to the laws of the state, but this is not an absolute duty. The element of utility takes precedence so that some laws might be considered
unjust ....
(2099
8
)
Emerson, Hawthorne & Thoreau
.... the law that he will obey it even when it is wrong,
unjust, cruel, inhumane .... individual human being who fears or needs the government in order to
live does not ....
(2564
10
)
Hobbes' Views on Law & Coercion
.... is force, coercion, war: "Therefore before the names of just and
unjust can have .... Most men will willingly
live according to the law of the civil society, for in ....
(2194
9
)
Plato's Ideal State
.... The fact that few would want to
live in the society Plato proposes may be because .... dialogue with Socrates, is led to state that the life of the
unjust person is ....
(2113
8
)
Socrates's Views of Death in the Apology and the Crito
.... is whether the activity he is pursuing is just or
unjust (51). Thus, once a man has established his position--that is, the credo by which he will
live his life ....
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