Rachel Speght was a poet and polemicist who believed in the rights of women. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself‚ by name‚ as a polemicist and critic of gender belief. Speght‚ a feminist and a Calvinist‚ is perhaps best known for her tract “A Mouzell for Melastomus.” It is a prose refutation of Joseph Swetnam’s misogynistic tract‚ “The Arraignment of Lewd‚ Idle‚ Froward‚ and Unconstant Women‚” and a significant contribution to the protestant discourse of biblical exegesis‚ defending
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Addressing this statement one needs to ask (a) Does the law depend on moral values? (b) Should the law depend on moral values? before establishing any degree of societal acknowledgement. Since time immemorial‚ there has always been an argument concerning the ways in which the law is affected by morality and consequently there is obviously a continuous societal debate establishing the development of this so-called relationship. This begs questions such as; ‘What are moral values? What is meant
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Morality is a matter of freedom. The statement is accurate because everyone has a freedom of choice in their moral decision. Although there has always been an assumption that inclinations and desires affect the moral values of people‚ this does not indicated their freedom to choose and weigh if the desires and inclinations are wrong. That is the reason that some people find it hard to make decisions freely due to the factors that inclining them to do things that are not out of their own will. In
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Morality of War There are nine conditions under which fighting a war can be moral. Although‚ that does not mean that wars are moral‚ especially not any of the wars this country has engaged itself in. War seems to be the most destructive type of human interaction. No other medium allows people to kill each other in such massive numbers or to cause immense suffering. Wars often take years to develop and can last for an undetermined amount of years. The effects can reverberate for decades if
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DR. RAM MANOHAR LOHIYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY‚ LUCKNOW B.A. LL.B. (HONS.) IX SEMESTER SUBJECT: Law And Morality Seminar Paper TOPIC: Hart Fuller Debate (Tussle Between Law and Moral Values) UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF: SUBMITTED BY: Dr. A P Singh ANKIT KR MISHRA Professor
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state has power to legislate morality in order to protect itself against behaviors that may disintegrate society and its institutions Society “means a community of ideas; without shared ideas on politics‚ morals‚ and ethics no society can exist” (Devlin‚ 10). Devlin appealed to the idea of society’s "moral fabric." He argued that the criminal law must respect and reinforce the moral norms of society in order to keep social order from unravelling. Society’s morality is a crucial‚ if not the
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Overall in the novel Portrait‚ religion is depicted as an overbearing burden which clouds and heavies the mind and conscious while assuming power over its believers. From early on in his life‚ religion hinders Stephen and his desires. At the beginning of the novel Stephen likes a young girl and thinks of marrying her later in life. His mother finds this completely wrong due to the fact that the girl’s family is Protestant‚ and not Catholic like Stephen’s family. As Stephen grows up‚ especially
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And 5 in 10 Americans with medium level of religious commitment hold the same view. However‚ Americans who are least religious were more likely to accept these technologies as appropriate. Only 36 percent of the people with low-commitment to religion objected to brain chip implant for improvement of cognitive abilities and use of synthetic blood to improve physical strength‚ and 28 percent of them opposed editing genes to create babies free of diseases. Among Christians‚ opinion on gene editing
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this world‚ religion has been existed more than 2000 years (Hall 2012) and religion has a huge influence to our daily life. But now‚ there is a voice that religion impede our society and increase instability. There are plenty of controversies about this question but it seems that the opinion is unreasonable and unreliable. In this article‚ there will be three aspects of evidences which are religion with war‚ religion with science and religion with the stability to prove that religion does not impede
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The mythical creation story of our very own existence is characterized differently by cultures‚ but they all articulate the same meaning and that is God as creator and we as his people. They are two story lines according to the beliefs of creation of the Jewish people and the Babylonians. The different creation belief is seen in the books of Genesis‚ in the Old Testament and the creational myth of the Babylonians: Enuma Elish. In Genesis the meaning of our creation is written in a sense of myth
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