The Ethical Impact On Civil Disobedience

Throughout history, civil disobedience has varied to an extreme that it has a spectrum. This spectrum is effected by many factors, such as the passion towards the disagreement with the government, to just ethical dilemmas that cultures don't accept. A peaceful resistance, in my point of view, positively impacts a free society. Freedom of speech is a right that is so much more powerful when silence is your voice. An example of this would be when Rosa Parks, the queen if civil rights, didn't move

commonly know as civil disobedience. In order to properly discuss civil disobedience and whether or not it is moral to disobey laws, we must first characterize civil disobedience. In Peter Singer's book, Practical Ethics he begins to characterize civil disobedience as arising from "ethical disagreement" and raising the question of whether "to uphold the law, even if the law protects and sanctions things we hold utterly wrong?" (Singer 292). Henry David Thoreau wrote an essay entitled Civil Disobedience

be little more than common criminals. All of these heroes broke the law in the name of a greater justice, and today all of them are revered as being the most patriotic of all people. The attribution of patriotism to people who commit acts of civil disobedience is lawful and just, because

pencil-making business. Later, he became a schoolteacher but he resigned after two weeks. He became acquainted with Ralph Waldo Emerson to edit the Transcendentalist magazine, The Dial, and from there, their friendship grew. They bounced political and ethical opinions off of one another despite their very different outlooks on various topics. Eventually, Thoreau took to philosophical writing, his ultimate passion. Thoreau first earned attention for his seminal work titled Walden. Thoreau had stayed on

Civil disobedience is a topic that starts many arguments, is a widely debated matter by many, and can be used in a multitude of different ways. The act of civil disobedience can be noted in major works such as Sophocles’ Antigone and Dr King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Sophocles’ Antigone shows the inner struggle of a young woman who is dealing with a difficult situation between moral and spiritual obligation and a kingly decree. Martin Luther King Jr. is writing in response to a letter from

March 28, 2011 CJA 324 Jay Jones Ethical Scrapbook Project This assignment presents an ethical scrapbook entailing four categories of ethical situations in which each team member expresses their [Check pronoun agreement--if "their" refers to "member" (or a singular subject), it should be singular, too (his or her)] individual opinion. It takes a close look at real-life cases of good Samaritans, acts of vigilantism, acts of civil disobedience, and acts committed by professionals in the

Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience expresses the need to prioritize thoughts and views over the dictates of laws. It attacks the American social policies and government as a slavery and Mexican – American War. Henry David Thoreau’s consistently argued that government rarely proves they’re for the people and obtains its power from the majority because organization, however criticizes the legitimacy of governments viewpoints. Thoreau thoughts were people’s first option is to do what they believe is right

exhibited a great amount of leadership skills and up to this day are used as examples in our current globalised economics. Their leadership has shaped countries and their influence has stretched far outside their areas of interest. We also uphold the ethical leadership in our discussions as supported by this course. We will present the leadership ethics that guided these leaders, how their leadership evolved, elements of multi-cultural leadership and the theories and psychology behind their success as

which allows Indians to be tried without a jury or fair trial. This act of resistance is simply one example of the Indian nation, comprised of men with all forms of wealth and religion, united around Gandhi and his satyagraha. The day had a profound impact of the entirety of the movement, and demonstrated the power of a unified people taking part in a peaceful protest. Satyagraha is able to result in a relatively successful reign because it allows the rebellion to create influence through the use of

focused on the ethical issues that can be defended by policing and imprisonment. I used the text about mass incarceration by Alexander to support my thoughts and views. From the “Rebirth of a Caste” a question that occurred to me is whether or not it is ethical to create a war on drugs for political gain. I believe the racism aspect of policing began long before the rates of incarceration increased. From the text people believed that “Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of civil disobedience was causing