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    Antigone: Moral Law vs Civil Law When it comes to morality‚ what is right and wrong based on a person’s personal beliefs‚ the story of Antigone is a great literary reference towards the internal struggles of an individual’s morality. Antigone chose to attribute herself with moral law instead of Creon’s rash and destructive civil law. Antigone felt that no one had the right to decide another’s fate‚ let alone the fate of someone else’s deceased body. Antigone believed that her brother deserved a

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    The Ways We Lie

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    Questions for Close Reading: 1. “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions.” 2. When Stephanie Ericsson went a whole week without telling a single lie‚ she recalled it “paralyzing.” She discovered that telling the truth all the time is “nearly impossible.” 3. A lie is a false action done with the intent to deceive. “Ignoring the

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    gheraoed and hence this weapon disturbs the industrial peace to a great extent. Gheraos have been criticised on both legal and moral grounds. Legally gheraos amount to imposing wrongful restraints on the freedom of some persons to move. That is why‚ courts have held it as an illegal action. Gheraos tend to inflict physical duress on the persons affected. They also create law and order problem. Morally‚ to gherao a person to press him to agree to certain demands is unjustified because it amounts to

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    Morality is moral only when voluntary Good morning friends‚ teachers and respected judges. Today I stand here in favour of the topic that morality is moral only when voluntary. One cannot be moral if they are being forced to follow a set of instructions to lead a life if good deeds. This can only be done by a family till a specific age group. After that age it all depends on an individual about how the person can follow the ethics taut o them by their families and parents. Morality is a difference

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    of recovery in profits (6%) after the global recession. Any nation would immensely benefit if it invests enough into any flag carrier or its civil aviation authority. Thus I come to stand against the motion “Ghana International Airlines can only be saved through divestiture.” Mr. Chairman‚ please permit me to begin with a brief history of Ghana International Airlines. It was set up in 2004 as a partnership between the Government of Ghana and a group of private international investors. A team of

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    the way we lie

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    a more complex lie. In article "the way we lie" written by Stephanie Ericsson she explains the different forms of lying‚ and how life is harder when we don’t lie to authority figures‚ people we love.In the short story " shooting an elephant" the narrator is guilty of lying to the Native people in the village he is in. The narrator puts up a facade that he is like any other white man and can kill anything. A facade is an illusion‚ we put on to portray what we think the world expects from us. The

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    Kant: the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative Kantian philosophy outlines the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative as a method for determining morality of actions. This formula is a two part test. First‚ one creates a maxim and considers whether the maxim could be a universal law for all rational beings. Second‚ one determines whether rational beings would will it to be a universal law. Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test‚ there

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    Natural Law can be traced back into the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds. In Sophocles’ play ’Antigone’‚ Natural Law is very apparent throughout and the writings of the Greek Philosopher; Aristotle. In his works - ’Nicomachean Ethics’ - he wrote; "The natural is that which is everywhere‚ is equally valid‚ and depends not upon being or not being received...that which is natural is unchangeable‚ and has the same power everywhere.’ The Ancient Stoics emphasised the importance of Logos‚ or rationality

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    ‘Must we only obey a just law; should we obey a law because it is just to do so; or else can we not obey at all?’ ESSAY The questions that shall be answered in this essay are ‘Must we only obey a just law?’‚ ‘Should we obey a law because it is just to do so?’ and ‘Or else‚ can we not obey at all?’ Before we can answer these questions it is important to establish what is meant by the term ‘just’. ‘Just’ in this case means ‘morally just’‚ I think‚ but differences of opinion exist as to its meaning

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    Kant on Will

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    466-93-4603 Kant pp 33-48 Kant’s argument that an act out of duty can not be in conflict with itself or with any other will acting out of duty derives from the concept he puts forth of the internal principle. A will cannot conflict itself if it determines itself a priori. By determining its morals before the benefit of experience‚ it determines itself simply that it exists as it is. Intuitively‚ anything pure cannot conflict with itself just as the idea of good cannot conflict with itself

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