Ethics is what we are to do and who we are to become, reflecting systematically and rationally. It involves; principles and norms, right versus wrong, justice, fairness, qualities of characters, and actions that make us successful human beings. Conscience is defined as “the awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one’s conduct, with the urge to prefer right over wrong.” Ethics and our conscience help people consider their feelings, consequences, and actions. When you consider these things, you generally...
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Ethics is the study of morality, Ethics is the moral principles governing a person’s or agent’s actions. I would call myself a Utilitarian-Egoists ethicist because I believe in doing that act that produces the greatest good for the masses but however, in doing that act that produces the greatest good for the greatest number we must always put our self-first, although at times self-egoism may seem selfish, it is always fair and intrinsically good to be self-motivated. My internal reflection...
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International Law Hugo Grotius was born on April 10, 1583 in Holland. He was raised in a family of well-educated people with ambitions. Grotius started reading when he was three years old and his mother prohibited him to read. When he was eight years old his brother died and that’s when he started writing poems in Latin to comfort his father. At the young age of eleven Grotius was admitted in the Faculty of Letter at the University of Leiden....
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to suggest that Locke gets half the story right on the issue of tolerance. The arguments for and against tolerance are based on the beliefs and opinions of the citizens who are supposed to live within these regulations. In the case of toleration however, not only did Locke himself reject divisive scriptural interpretations but, because of their fair discord, he argued that they had no place in public debates. In the event of intolerance, he calls for the broadest and...
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Introduction Sophocles’ Antigone (written in 441BC) is widely regarded to be one of the finest Greek tragedies of all time. Telling the story of Antigone’s defiance of a law set forth by her uncle Creon - the King of Thebes - in which he forbids the burial of her brother, the most significant theme of the play is arguably that of obedience or disobedience to law. Antigone commits civil disobedience on the basis that the law of Zeus overrides any...
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Anno Domini Dies Unus, In Mortem; In Lucem The Duality of Life; The Dichotomy of Existence. “Life is warfare and a journey far from home. Then what can guide us? Only philosophy.” (Meditations, V. II, Aurelius, Marcus, 167 A.D.) Birthed within all human flows the essence of natural law, “Thou shall not kill.” (Moses, The Ten Commandments); so too, is the knowledge of legal positivism such as self-defense laws contained within the child. Inherent from the onset in thought of...
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Anno Domini, Tres Dies What the pros, what are the problems with this duality in legal philosophy? What have been benefits, what have been the drawbacks in the past? What are the current benefits, drawbacks of the dualistic approach to legal thinking? If Aquinas’s view is paradigmatic of the natural law position, and these two theses, that from the God’s-eye point of view, it is law through its place in the scheme of divine providence, and from the human’s-eye point...
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Introduction St Thomas Aquinas has undoubtedly been known for his principle work, the Summa Theologiae. Thomas Aquinas worked steadily on this writing for many years between the years of 1265 and 1273, and the writing was intended to be a guide for beginners in theology to organise a collection and assist with Christian doctrine and philosophy. The Summa eventually became ‘one of the most influential works of Western literature’ and this established Aquinas as a leading theorist of the natural...
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