He believes that there are two types of laws, just and unjust. ... Augustine with, "An unjust law is no law at all." ... In addition, an unjust law is a law that degrades human personality and is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... On the contrary, an unjust law is a law that the group that enacts it would not want required on them. Another problem with just and unjust laws would be a law that is inflicted on a group who could not vote on it. ...

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Why, we ask, might Socrates seem eager to accept his unjust punishment, accorded by unjust men, in this the most unjust of situations? ... That in fact he may be as unjust as those who condemn him. ... By relishing the hemlock and accepting his unjustly mandated fate, Socrates would be guilty of aiding and abetting those who acted unjustly, and in so doing, would seemingly be guilty of acting unjustly himself. ... However, by allowing himself to be punished unjustly, Socrates would knowingly do wrong by assisting those who have acted unjustly in his sentencing. ... Because of his unjust be...

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To me this social law is unjust. ... Another example of unjust laws that exist within our society today deal with minors under the age of 18. ... While everyone is told of how we should live and laws are in affect to protect us, minors have more laws that have to follow, thus making many of them unjust by King's definition and mine. ... These laws can be unjust by King's standard that says "a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law." ... King was right in fighting to bridge the...

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An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. ... An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. ... Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. ... An unjust law is a law that tries to degrade the human personality. ... So how is one to challenge the unjust laws? ...

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Socrates Vs King In the two reading assignments that were assigned each of the characters argue whether breaking the law is just or unjust. ... Socrates being a firm believer in what is just and unjust supports his position that escaping from prison and fleeing in exile to an adjacent city would be unjust because by him doing this would result in breaking the commitments that he has agreed upon by the courts after he was found guilty. ... Martin Luther King Jr. on the other hand, feels that the segregation laws that the black people had to abide by were unjust laws, and the blacks were discr...

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Socrates in his old age has been subjected to the Law of Athens. He knows for a fact that the law is unjust in its doing; but, his main quarrel against Crito is that he cannot just escape and disobey the law. ... The peculiarity about the excerpt dealing with law is that the law is personified to this humanly figure. ... Martin Luther King Jr. preached that everything must be done within the law and to the law, but nothing against the law. ... "Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. ...

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What is Socrates' conception of the relationship between the individual and the State or Laws, as shown in the Crito? ... This brings us to the second aspect of Socrates' conception of the relationship - Athens cannot continue to function without laws, and if Socrates were to disobey the orders of these laws, then he, as a citizen, is therefore implementing the destruction of the laws themselves. ... Socrates sees the Laws and the State as parental figures to the citizens of Athens. ... In this case, Socrates saw great logic and rationalised that indeed it would be unjust for Socrat...

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Aristotle discussed the notions of "just" and "unjust" and how laws affected them. ... A good citizen was a citizen who was loyal to its government, willing to die for his country, and also a person who abides by the laws, even unjust laws. ... At the same time, the state must be willing to bend a little when citizens feel a law is unjust. ... So what was meant by just and unjust? ... What might have been unjust to some might not have been considered unjust to others. ...

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Socrates and MLK Jr. both dealt with the question, "Is it just to break an unjust law?" ... Neither man used violence in his means of showing his dislike for certain unjust laws and yet both were punished for their actions and beliefs. ... If people are not satisfied with the terms of the law, it is not just and should not be forced upon the public. ... Socrates does not even think he has disobeyed a law in the first place and MLK Jr. consciously disobeys those laws he thinks to be unjust. ... MLK Jr. stresses that if the minority has no part in devising the law, then it is unjust and shou...

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One is when he says that even though the laws are unjust, you must follow them. ... He should have still kept trying to show that the ruling was unjust and that he was right. It has been proven in the United States that one can fight against an unjust ruling or an unjust law; like the Black Civil Rights Movement, and Women's Rights. By allowing the unjust ruling to go through, Socrates allowed the city to be able to wrong another person when the situation rises again. ... Socrates sentence to death was unjust. ...

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King was fighting for that, he thought there were creative injustice laws. He states in Letter from Birmingham Jail that: "There are just and unjust laws, a unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. ... King goes on give more examples of just and unjust laws. ... There are some instances when a law is just on it's face, but unjust in it's application; in other words, the law is right but done in the wrong way. ... Martin Luther King talks so much about unjust and just laws in Letter from Birmingham Jail, it is just so amazing ...

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My main focus will be on Socrates primary argument, which is solely based on the premise that doing unjust actions harm's one's soul, and life is not living with a ruined soul. ... (Plato: Crito 54-56) Plato's argument is even more dictatorial: he states that we have an obligation, for the good of our soul; to obey unjust laws and to accept unfair punishment for laws we haven't broken. ... Citizens may have obligations to the law, but the law in turn has obligations to the citizens. ... Plato was in no way opposed of the laws. ... Breaking an agreement is an unjust action ...

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For this reason, Emerson and Thoreau argue that solitude and society are the most focused topic in their works because of Solitude's ability to give you more freedom instead of living under the rights of unjust laws and Society exploiting you to opportunities with education and grammar. Thoreau argues that living in solitude gives you more freedom instead of living under rights of unjust laws. ... So why live according to laws set by the government. Thoreau says, "Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have suc...

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Issues that I will base my argument on are the important questions of Truth, Justice, Death and State Law. ... Socrates states the importance of standing by his previous reasoning (no unjust acts). He believes it is his social duty to accept his punishment, be it unjust or just. ... For Socrates, the law is always distinguished from brute force. ... We are born into a society and by remaining in it, according to Socrates, we implicitly agree to obey its laws. ...

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If people obeyed all laws, they would tend to do unjust things. ... Politicians are supposed to act according to just laws, but more often than not, they tend to take the law in their own hands. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... The tax collector needs to stop serving the unjust government. ... Socrates is clearly criticizing politicians of being unjust. ...

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Divine laws as George puts it, are the laws made by Gods, for the safety of the citizens. ... Creon's unjust laws prevent any citizen from burying Polynices" body. ... These unjust laws were made by none other than Creon, Antigone's uncle. ... One would not expect the secular laws to be this opposite of the divine laws. As a result, Antigone dies, to follow God's laws, in so doing she disobeys the laws made by humans. ...

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Socially Constituted and Socially Defined Law An argument against the idea of Natural Law The idea of natural law has been long debated in the subject of jurisprudence. ... The sovereign is that person who decides right from wrong, and just from unjust. ... There is no such thing as natural law because the sovereign makes the laws. ... If it is this kind of procedure that makes a law, then natural law is not law at all. Natural law theorists will argue that God enforces the natural law. ...

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Book VI: how democracies and oligarchies are to be established ". . . we will perhaps grasp better . . . how each political system should be organized so as to be best; and what habits and laws it should follow." ... Third argument: (1) Nature does nothing pointlessly. (2) A human being is the only animal with rational discourse, logon. (3) Rational discourse is for making clear what is expedient or harmful, and hence what is just or unjust. (4) It is community in good and evil, and just and unjust, that produces a household and a city. (5) Therefore, a human being is by nature a political a...

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Glaucon's brother, Adeimantus, backs up his brother's speech by stating that an unjust man with a deceivably just reputation(which is almost always the trait of the perfectly unjust man) is also better than the just man. ... Therefore, if the following is considered true, then unjust men leads to more unjust men, and then what would happen if unjust men ruled the world. ... So therefore in the end, unjust men would lose. ... Unjust men, on the other hand, appreciate neither just men nor other unjust men. ... Real philosophers, however, find that it is in their best interest to gove...

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Once the laws began as an unjust, unkind, and unstable set of rules. ... It was assumed by Crito that the laws would forgive Socrates. The laws end as being as justified and powerful as ever. ... Seeming cruel on the surface, the Laws were actually reasonable. ... To him, being loyal to the Laws was very important, and it was that decision that gave the Laws a solid theory. ...

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States and common laws exist due to an agreement among those who are relatively weak. ... For him, the strong individual has no obligation to uphold the law of the community, and he will grant that if justice is good at all, it is only good instrumentally, as a means to something else. ... In direct contrast, we have an unjust man who appears just. ... Socrates must show that the second man (the unjust man who appears just) does not live well and that the first man (the just man who appears unjust) does live well. ... Socrates himself is exactly such a man: one who is just, but appears unjust....

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The judgment that was passed was based on just laws; it was man who twisted Socrates" actions causing the outcome to be unjust. One must never commit an unjust act, because all unjust acts are evil. ... But because man did what was easy and pleasant, by using the laws to make Socrates guilty of crimes he didn't commit, Athens and its democracy will not benefit and surely crumble. ...

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So in the first incident, Socrates argues that the will of the people can be disobeyed when unjust, however in the second incident, he argues that the law should not be broken at any cost. ... Socrates sees escape as an unjust act. ... He strengthens his conviction by personifying the laws. To escape would be committing an unjust act against the figure of the law, going against everything that Socrates stands for. ... In the Apology, Socrates claims that he will go against the law if the law requires him to stop his philosophical teachings. ...

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The desire for having power is what keeps these people trapped in an unjust world. ... As he said " I do not believe that the law of God permits a better man to be harmed by a worse I believe that it is far worse to do what he is doing now, trying to put a man to death unjustly" (Plato, AP. ... After all if he died he will not continue to suffer in an unjust world, instead the ones that stay will continue to suffer. ...

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Antigone was following divine laws, or walking with divine shoes, while Kreone followed the laws of the state. ... If we don't like him , which many may not, that does not give us the right to ignore his laws or the laws of this country. The fact is laws are made for a reason, be it good or bad. ... The law may seem to be unjust to us in today's society but that does not give anyone the right to create their own laws to live by. ... Therefore, his laws were absolute, and unjust in the first place. ...

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