Equity has brought benefits to many litigants who would otherwise have been severely disadvantaged by the common law. Discuss‚ with reference to decided cases. William the Conqueror found England with no single system of law common to the whole country. The law was mainly sets of customary rules which differed from area to area. For example‚ in one area you could get away with stealing‚ in another it would be seen as crime. There was no such thing as ‘ The English Legal System” until William’s
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The Environmental Impact of Tourism 1. Tourism and the Environment The term ‘environment’ is a generic concept. It encompasses different contexts including the cultural‚ social‚ political and economic. The most often assumed meaning of environment is that of nature. However‚ we must also remember that how we use nature carries with political‚ economic and social implications. We know that the impacts of human activities upon nature have implications for its biodiversity and the welfare
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people can’t act out of sentiment since it disregards these laws due to the subjective nature of sentiment. Using these observations‚ Kant hypothesized a method to assess moral value called Categorical Imperative‚ where you begin with a maxim and then theorize this maxim as a universal law of nature. This law must pass two tests‚ the first being if the moral duties present are contradictory or not‚ and the second being if you can will that everyone would follow this law. This example shows how Kant uses
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Philosophy 101 Professor D.R. Johnson October 14‚ 2013 Explain Kant’s Moral Rule: “Only act according to maxims one can rationally will to be Universal” Immanuel Kant’s “moral rule” is that all actions ought to be done that are required by a moral law. “The starting point for appreciating that there is a distinctive part of our psychology for morality is seeing how moral judgments differ from other kinds of opinions we have on how people ought to behave. Moralization
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Explain the origin and nature of good and evil in Augustine. In the Enchiridion on Faith‚ Hope‚ and Love‚ Augustine thoughtfully examines the origin and nature of Good and Evil‚ which is important for the daily Christian living. Augustine claims that God is the greatest good and He creates humans with that same good‚ so God does not create Evil. However‚ Evil‚ writes Augustine‚ is like a parasite‚ which comes as a deformation or corruption of something good. It is clear to say‚ “There can be
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ROLE OF WOMEN: It is true that the worth of a civilization can be measured by the place that it gives to women in the society. It is also true that where women are honored‚ there gods live. Indian Women in the past enjoyed an exalted position in the society. They excelled in various spheres of life and enjoyed every kind of liberty to develop themselves‚ socially‚ morally and intellectually. However‚ the position did not remain the same for long. During Muslim and British rule‚ her position was
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Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals is an exploration and argument that seeks a universally binding first principle for morals. Kant presents an essay in which empirical observations and facts are not adequate to answer the question of‚ why be moral? Instead Kant relies on theoretical concepts‚ such as autonomy‚ morality‚ duty and goodwill to explain how necessity and causality are ordered. In this essay I will attempt to explain the Kantian connection between freedom and morality. In
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Putnam and Robert Brandom developing philosophical views that represent later stages of the pragmatist tradition. The core of pragmatism was the pragmatist maxim‚ a rule for clarifying the contents of hypotheses by tracing their ‘practical consequences’. In the work of Peirce and James‚ the most influential application of the pragmatist maxim was to the concept of truth. But the pragmatists have also tended to share a distinctive epistemological outlook‚ a fallibilist anti-Cartesian approach to the
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pilot with many hours in the L-8. Next was Ensign Charles Ellis Adams who was brand new to the job. That morning mechanic J Riley Hill‚ started to prepare the L-8 for its flight. As he did his walk around everything looked fine to him‚ and perfectly in tact. At six o’clock in the morning‚ they departed from Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay‚ leaving behind their
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the CFO who reports false financial data and the hedge fund manager who commits insider trading do so because they are inherently "bad people." The maxim of individual responsibility is comforting because it implies that‚ to eradicate criminal or unethical behaviour‚ all we need to do is identify and weed out the corrupt few. However‚ that maxim has two major flaws. First‚ it overlooks the fact that we rarely know who is corrupt until they specifically do something unethical or illegal. Some
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