Ethics and Law Ethics are what define whether a law is good or bad. ... Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."" ... "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 of harmony with the moral law." ... Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing. ...
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...
In fact, spanking is a good way to discipline by helping to build self-awareness and morality, it is beneficial to maintain order in society. ... Morality and discipline that has already been established at a young age keeps society in order and well-organized. ... As the children grow to an adulthood, they will know what is good or bad behavior and what they are allowed to do under the statement of the law. Besides this, children will be more self- controlled in their behavior to do under the law. ... In conclusion, spanking is a good way to discipline youth by helping youth to build morality...
Also, he believes that morality requires a standard that will not only regulate the inadequacies of absolute justice but be also an idea of moral progress. Since absolute justice is abstract in nature, in the real world, it must be supplemented with equity, which corrects and modifies laws of justice where it falls short. When it comes to the purpose or will of morality, Aristotle mentions two factors: reason stimulated to act by desire, or desire guided and controlled by understanding. ...
Hobbes and Machiavelli both agree that morality does not exist. For Hobbes, morality is a human invention. ... He believes that they need a strong leader who enforces the laws to keep them from harming each other, and creating peace and stability. ... The second reason is that democracy believes in moral basis, it considers conscience as a moral compass that always points to the right direction, however Hobbes thinks that humans do not share the same view of morality, for example my morality might differ from your morality and that creates conflicts between humans.The last reason is that the...
In Byzantine time private morality was different from public morality and they were completely apart from each other. ... However, for Machiavelli it did not work because the law would not work he suggested using force for resolving the problems instead calming the temper down and solving the problems in ways without the war. ...
The consequences of such relations are thought to be entirely positive and include a system of justice, increased emphasis on morality and an illumination of the path to the good life. ... Morality is not directly implanted by nature but is an indirect natural occurrence; we are political animals and form households, villages and states, which Aristotle has demonstrated to be natural associations. Social collaboration is a precondition for justice and law, furthermore, an individual who does not enter into social partnerships naturally or lives without a polis is either "subhuman or superhu...
Euthyphro claims that he fully understands the divine law of piety and impiety. ... Piety is then the action of not keeping justice in the city; one man who acts against the law should be prosecuted and justice should be applied. ... Religion and morality are closely related that neither one can exists apart from the other. Socrates believes in a standard of morality that is something more than human opinion. ...
It seems that the central plot of the western film is the classic, simple goal of maintaining law and order on the frontier in a fast-paced action story. ... Gone is the white hat black hat morality, gone is the idea that the good guy always wins. ... Another strength that Ransom had, was he had experienced life outside of the west, he knew of the benefits of law, and the growth a town could experience through organization, and laws to govern. ... He had to learn a new way of life, and had to realize that he was in a land where quoting passages and so called "laws" from his law books where not...
Each circle condemns some sort of excessive or deficient act, the very same structure of morality we find in Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean. Indeed, it seems Aristotelian morality is the very source out of which conceptions of sin in the Inferno are constructed. ... This aligns closely to Dante's second circle (for those condemned for lust), where Semiramis resides, for she was "so broken to the vice of lust that in her laws she made licit whatever pleased, to lift from herself the blame she had incurred " (Canto V, 55). This epitomizes Dante's condemnation of those who capitu...
For example, Crito thinks he is trying to save Socrates, but doesn't his lack of respect for the laws lead to the very instability which caused Meletus to bring Socrates to court and the jurors to vote against him? Socrates was accused of damaging the laws and institutions of Athens because he made all the authorities account for their actions. But here the roles are reversed: Socrates really respects the laws of Athens and Crito and other "respectable- citizens expect the laws to be ignored. ... Socrates' conclusion to stay in the prison may have cost him his life, but saved th...
Machiavelli adopts a more practical perspective not on the moral capability of men, but on the role morality will actually play in daily life. ... Although Aristotle recognizes that political societies and statesmen may face threats from foreign and domestic forces, his political societies are founded on a group of citizen's mutual understanding of justice, therefore while others may impose a threat to political life, the foundation of government resides in the laws and the public conception of justice. ... He tells us that the founders of society are armed prophets that enforce law and o...
Clein speaks of this when she says, "The ideals of chivalry derive from the Christian concept of morality, and the proponents of chivalry seek to promote spiritual ideals in a spiritually fallen world."1 This is true as the reader sees the world in which he inhabits is fully of abandoned virtues and self-proclaimed moralities. ...
" by examining four ethical approaches: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Virtue Ethics and Machiavellianism and their evaluation of the morality of a business. ... According to Kantianism "we have the capacity to legislate the moral law"2. ... The Categorical imperative follows the idea "Act only in according with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.... Therefore, they cannot serve as a universal law. ...
While Classical Philosophy tangles with many questions, one could surmise from the readings that the universal goal of most (classical) philosophers was to answer the question "what is the best life?" A logical presumption would be that nearly all human beings aspire to live the best possible life, ...
Counseling is an interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between counselor and client that leads to change in one or more areas (Trickett, Sept. 9, 2003). Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Lo...
Counseling is an interactive process characterized by a unique relationship between counselor and client that leads to change in one or more areas (Trickett, Sept. 9, 2003). Multicultural counseling requires the recognition of: (1) the importance of racial/ethnic group membership on the socialization of the client; (2) the importance of and the uniqueness of the individual; (3) the presence of and place of values in the counseling process; and (4) the uniqueness of learning styles, vocational goals, and life purposes of clients, within the context of principles of democratic social justice (Lo...
