In my essay I will critically examine the two theories' that examine the relationship between morality and religion. The two theories are The Divine Command Theory and The Natural Law Theory. ... Morality and religion is the association between religiosity and moral codes. ... It also argues why people should worry about morality. ... Natural law is regularly compared with human made laws of a given political society, similarly to this way of thinking is that the law of nature describes not merely how but also how things should be. ...

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Why People Obey the Law By Tom Tyler The main question addressed in Tom Tyler's essay is, obviously, "Why do people obey laws?". ... Internalized obligations are two-fold; first is personal morality and second is legitimacy. Personal morality has to do with a person's compliance to laws due to the knowledge of right and wrong. ... Basically, people obey laws because breaking laws is morally wrong. ... Finally, the study focused on the legitimacy part of internalized obligations although personal morality is probably even more important in regards to compliance. ...

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Why People Obey the Law By Tom Tyler The main question addressed in Tom Tyler's essay is, obviously, "Why do people obey laws?". ... Internalized obligations are two-fold; first is personal morality and second is legitimacy. Personal morality has to do with a person's compliance to laws due to the knowledge of right and wrong. ... Basically, people obey laws because breaking laws is morally wrong. ... Finally, the study focused on the legitimacy part of internalized obligations although personal morality is probably even more important in regards to compliance. ...

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With the original meaning or intent an inhumane law would have been upheld. ... Implicit and explicit interpretations are both very important aspects to consider when ruling on a law, a case, or simply an infraction. ... According to Dworkinian theory the constitution should be viewed as an underlying philosophy to law, meaning we should use the words of the constitution as a backbone for the embodiment of law. ... This also brings in the argument of legal morality, which plays no part of the constitution, being that morality is a human characteristic not a property of a document. ... The q...

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Part two was split into different parts explaining the general principles of morality including a theory of law and morality in particular, including individual virtues and vices. ... Thomas Aquinas' theory of morality and law set a precedent for a new European law The revival Roman Law was the last part of medieval synthesis. Roman Law contained the universal principles crucial to medieval synthesis. ... Irnerius changed the roman law to fit to the new medieval age. Roman Law influenced church law which was derived from the bible. ...

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Animal cruelty or subjection of an animal to inappropriate treatments it is counter inductive to humans morality and also shows the degree to which humans can abuse their power. ... The idea of soul and its subsequent moral dilemmas have evolved from the 17th century thus indicating that as time changes morality/ ethics need to be revised in light of new enlightens. ... The laws which are used to govern society are to ensure that every individual despite race, religion, gender, wealth has a equal opportunity. ... Laws/ rules were made by humans to protect ourselves from harms way. ... To ...

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A fundamental part of natural law is the existence of absolute and unchanging values of right and wrong. ... As a result, it can be claimed that natural moral law cannot be applied to issues of business ethics. ... Both the Aristotelian and Thomist forms of natural moral law are concerned with human purpose as a whole. ... Therefore, applying natural moral law can be both useless and dangerous for modern businesses. ... Natural moral law presents an outdated and subjective view of morality. ...

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However, Davies makes it clear that it just simply isn't possible to separate law from morality entirely. ... Positive law reflects social and political interest - and thus somewhat reflects morality. ... Morality and compatibility with human rights is essential for valid law, and as such this law never existed. Lon Fuller argued a similar line, rather saying that the morality of law is required in order to get people to follow the law, and because the law lacked that morality, the law couldn't be expected to be followed and as such isn't really law. ... In this way, indivi...

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Through such logic, she presented her belief that moral laws cannot exist if God does not exist. ... Hence, what Anscombe believed in was a return to the ideals of Eudamonia and a morality that is focused on the person rather than on the consequence of actions. By emphasizing Eudamonia, morality does not need to depend on strict moral principles, which she felt gave too much emphasis to autonomous actions and disregarded the social aspect of morality that may give rise to the 'polis', for example virtues cultivated through active citizenship. ... Suppose a lawyer was contemplating...

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Kant identified categorical imperative as the foundational principle of morality. ... The other main formulation of categorical imperative develops the idea that morality does not permit you to use people. ... Kant thought that unless there is something that can supply an answer, morality is a sham (Rosenstand, 223). ... The first states, "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature" (Ming, Online). ... And finally the third command says, "So act as if you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends" (Ming, Online). ...

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They tend to be self-identified with these rules, and uphold them consistently, viewing morality as acting in accordance with what society defines as right. ... One must obey the law except in extreme cases in which the law comes into conflict with other prescribed social duties. Obeying the law is seen as necessary in order to maintain the system of laws which protect everyone. ... In essence this last level of moral judgment evokes reasoning rooted in the ethical fairness principles from which moral laws would be devised. ... At this stage, morality is expressed in interpersonal terms and go...

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As he turned to Buddhism, he emphasized Dharma (law of piety) and ahimsa (nonviolence). ... Furthermore, his soldiers were taught the golden rule- to behave to others the way you want them to behave to you, which is the basic law of life. ... He advocated a state, ruled by an enlightened ruler with absolute authority, in which law replaced morality. He believed in individual standards of morality should be replaced by what the ruler wants (considered right) and what the ruler does not want (considered wrong). Qin's ...

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This is because soldiers base their decisions on morality, making them agents of morality, while AUAAVs are not agents of morality. Since soldiers are agents of morality, their actions can therefore be attributed for, and held responsible for failing. ... But, unfortunately, putting legal responsibility on politicians is still impossible as there are no laws which specify any responsibility. ... Also, since laws are not yet clearly defined about who is responsible, there is no one to take responsibility in case of an accidents like the killing innocent civilians. ... I believe that until clea...

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This comes from the theory of the universal law, which says that an action is only moral if the reason for performing it could be a reason everyone could have (ICE). ... Both Kant and Mills measure morality in different ways. Kant says that an act is considered moral if it's done for the sake of duty and if it can be a universal law. ... The major fault to Mill's ethics is that by making the greatest amount of happiness the first principle of morality, this takes advantage of the few for the well being of the majority. ... For example, Kant believes that there are no exceptions for m...

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If the laws of nature, described by de Waal, were applied to everyday life, we shall see Kaldor's standards for .humanitarian laws being fulfilled. ... Instead of seeing morality as a new invention, I tend to view it as a natural outgrowth of ancient social tendencies" (de Waal 664). ... When we apply de Waal" theory of morality and how it is a universally accepted concept, we will accept Guinier's call for one voice of fairness and Kaldor's international human rights. Through stopping the cycles of vengeance, can we achieve fairness for all and international human rig...

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In this paper I will explain the different aspects that morality play on business including general outlook of businesses toward morality, reasons behind businesses adhering to code of ethics, and the Catholic teaching on business. ... Business outlook towards morality concerns itself with how other people are affected in both positive and negative ways. ... Even the government has taken steps in ensuring equal employment of different races with the Affirmative Action, and other anti job discrimination laws... -Catechism 2437 Clearly, business decisions entail moral demands, but are good bu...

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According to liberalism, general morality and normative values are determined by natural flow of social relation. For this reason, liberals defend that morality must define secularly. ... Main notions of liberalism: Priority of individual Universal human rights Progressivism Modernism Supremacy of law Secular morality Natural situation and adaptation Freedom of attempt Free market Free trade Limited government intervention Rationalism Liberal theory was in realism's shadow from the beginning of Cold war to end of 1960s. ... International organization, regimes, institutions and law are re...

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Before age 9, most children obey rules either to avoid punishment or to gain rewards (pre-conventional morality). By morality of abiding by laws simply because "those are the rules". Post conventional morality which is achieved by those who develop the abstract reasoning of formal operations, affirms people's agreed-upon rights or follows a personal code of ethics. ... Critics also note that morality also lies in actions, which are influenced by factors beside moral reasoning. ...

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David Hollenbach also defines justice and morality, describing what he terms the "common good," and how our society ought to be concerned with finding it. ... To begin to decide where morality and justice fit into democracy, they must first be defined. The justice of law, suggests Minnow, is "promoted by the consistent application of known rules, which in turn can guide conduct and make punishment predictable." ... Justice will be done in every case, for that is the point of our law, and what it was created for-- the only variance from typical justice is the definition. As Minnow says, "law ...

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Furthermore, not just IU, but all Korean entertainment industries should ban the use of Lolita Concept because of its negative impacts on the child sexual welfare, morality, and the social norm. ... Secondly, universal morality comes first before the freedom of expression. ... The universal morality shall be overlooked by right of artistic expression. ... In South Korea, the law does not specify and restrain the concept of Lolita. ... Furthermore, we have to make a law to prohibit the concept....

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The conclusion drawn from these two theses is that there is no objective "truth" in morality. Proposed laws of cultural relativism argue for example, that human rights as understood in the West are not necessarily applicable to the third world or the non-Western societies on the grounds that their philosophical basis is different and perhaps opposite. ... Some fear that the principle of cultural relativity will weaken morality. ... Moral relativism argues that if morality is culturally relative, then there is no independent basis for criticizing thus a more tolerant view on the cultures of oth...

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In Kipling's works the animals show that they can be just as intelligent as humans through the animals reasoning behind their actions, the codes of conduct or morality that the animals live by, and through the way man shows animals intelligence by equivocating himself to them. ... The second example of animals showing that they can be just as intelligent as Man is through the intelligence shown by animals that live by codes of conduct or morality. ... Finally, even Rikki Tikki Tavi can tell that it's a law of nature that " all a grown mongoose's business in life was to fi...

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Its appeal mostly comes from the fact that it focuses on social reform and changing unjust laws and policies. ... The ultimate end-goal of Utilitarianism is eudaimonia, or happiness, and the greatest concern is how we can rid our society of laws, institutions and practices that are unjust. ... It only means that good and evil are not the foundation, nor the fundamental principles for morality. ... Utility denies the idea of customary morality which means that there are actions and ideas that we learn are naturally bad. ... Since this has nothing to do with any innate feelings related to morali...

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Aristotle wrote that "Now when a person kills himself in a fit of anger, he acts voluntarily in violation of right reason; and that the law does not permit. ... Though this may seem reasonable for the mentality ill, and physically sick, it goes against Kantian ethics, and the laws of nature. Kant argues that "to destroy the subject of morality in his own person is tantamount to obliterating from the world, as far as he can, the very existence of morality itself; but morality is, nevertheless, an end in itself" (Kant: 84). ...

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Social relations are defined by it and secondary institutions like legislature and political offices are by and large made to facilitate execution of mode of morality given by religion. ... For instance, despite utterly secular outlook, abortion could not be legalized in most of the western countries including the United States for the reason no other than pressure from Vatican and regional religious bodies denouncing abortion as an act devoid of Christian morality. ... Knowledge about religion means knowledge of behavioral pattern and code of morality of people. If they are known, policies co...

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