matter what your desires are‚ rather than what you ought to help someone if you care or want to be a good person. This refers back to hypothetical and categorical‚ where hypothetical oughts are possible if we have desires rather than categorical ought where it is possible due to reason (EMP 128-129). The “ought” implies that the ultimate aim of rational beings is to become perfectly moral. If we ought to work then we can become perfect and it can be possible. Kant believes using the Categorical Imperative
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Moral Law Vs. Natural Law "At the dramatic center of The Scarlet Letter is the idea of the awesomeness and inescapability of the Moral Law‚ to which all else is finally submitted‚"� (Levy 384). Assuming that Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter exploring the relationship between Moral law and Natural law‚ he chooses the moral laws to be absolute. Using definitions of nature and character provided by Seymour Katz applied to the terms natural law and moral law allow an extension of Leo Levy’s claim
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What is the role played in contract law by the doctrine of consideration 1. Controversies and challenges of consideration. For a contract promise to be enforceable‚ that promise must normally be supported by consideration. Any contractual promise must be supported by consideration unless an exception applies. A promise will be supported by consideration if it’s given as part of a bargain or exchange rather than a gift. Second‚ the promiser or 3rd party should receive some act forbearance
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doctor. This case cause individual likely blood lost‚ germs infection and injury during delivery. Their high possibility could not produce baby more after this because defect occurs in womb. At the same time‚ due to baby dumping too ‚ occurrence of collapse of family institution. When institution of the family collapse‚ harmony in family also affected the sprinkle. This case due to‚ parents feel ashamed of having child that like that the behaviour appearance. They consider child like this has giving
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Essentials of Consideration Presence of consideration is one of the requisites of Valid Contract. Consideration must be of two directional nature. That means both parties should get benefited mutually. Then only the Contract becomes capable of creating legal relations. Consideration may be in the form of cash‚ goods‚ act or Abstinence. Definition of Consideration “When at the desire of the promissor‚ the promisee or any other person has done or abstained from doing or does or abstains from
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Natural Moral Law to moral decision making. As an ethical theory‚ natural law has a number of strengths; it allows Christians today‚ using their human reason to guide them‚ live as God intends them to live. However it can be argued that is has a number of weaknesses also‚ for example its religious underpinning. Taking a natural law approach to moral decision making can be seen as beneficial as it is a simplistic and universal guide to morality. As human reason forms the basis to this moral approach
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The effects of baby dumping in Namibia Effects to the individuals There is a number of individuals that gets so affect by the issue of baby dumping‚ such big things happenings affects them both emotionally and psychologically. Some people feel so bad seeing and hearing them every day. In some cases women who are unable to give birth‚ are mostly affected with the reason being that those that are blessed with kids are abandoning them an those that wants to love and care for them are not given that
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Assignment: Ethical considerations in respect of advertising‚ sales promotion‚ pricing‚ product packaging and obsolescence. 2011 Introduction Ethics is concerned with what is right and what is wrong. Ethics relate to moral evaluations of decisions and actions as right or wrong on the basis of commonly accepted principles of behaviour (Dibb et. al.‚ 1997)‚ in other words‚ ethics are the moral principles and values that govern the actions
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judge-made law is a law rooted in a judiciary decision‚ not an act of legislation made by lawmakers or a regulation created by a government agency with the legal authority to do so. The collective body of judge-made laws in a nation is also known as case law. Many nations allow judges to set legal precedents when making high court decisions‚ adding to the body of law in a nation and providing new interpretation of existing laws. Lower courts do not have the authority to make judge-made law. Only judges
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Hyde v Wrench(1840) Hyde v Wrench [1840] EWHC Ch J90 is a leading English contract law case on the issue of counter-offers and their relation to initial offers. In it Lord Langdale ruled that any counter-offer cancels the original offer. Wrench offered to sell his farm in Luddenham to Hyde for £1000‚ an offer which Hyde declined. On 6 June 1840 Wrench wrote to Hyde’s agent offering to sell the farm for £1000‚ stating that it was the final offer and that he would not alter from it.[1] Hyde offered
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