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the law says is just and what we inherently deem to be morally upstanding – Creon represents the opposing side which views law and power as the ultimate dictator of life’s unraveling. Though Antigone is ultimately thwarted, she is on the side of justice rather than blindly following the law. Antigone’s empathy while breaking the law

Mahatma Gandhi, famous anti-war activist and leader once said: “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” Gandhi explains that a man’s conscience overpowers any legal justice system, a universal truth that is explained in both To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Letter to My Son by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In both of these texts, the judgement of one’s conscience is told through two different perspectives; through the eyes

discrimination and social segregation in the southern part of United States. He explained Just laws and Unjust application of Law. Unjust laws are those laws which are not based on morality whereas unjust application of law refers to the law which is against justice, implemented on someone else. MLK along with few other people started a movement in which they violated unjust law and he did that by starting civil disobedience movement. While staying in jail Martin Luther king expresses his opinion on being criticized

Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law”. Again he refers to someone the clergymen are familiar with. Trying to have understood. The thing that bothered King most was that white ministers knew this was justice and they just kept silent. They did not do anything to say blacks should have equal rights even though they believed they should. Instead they were silent which King thought was just as bad as hateful words and actions. King argues that the clergymen

panic. Mccarthyism is when “a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations”(Banes). The Crucible and McCarthyism share many similarities including that the law operated in unfair ways and failed to maintain justice, one person was the root cause of this mass public hysteria and both people lied to protect themselves. All people should be treated fair and equal by the law, it is in fact, the law.

risk of being incorrect. Episteme, or knowledge, functions similarly to true belief, but will “always hit the mark” because obtaining knowledge of something requires an individual to fully understand the ends and outs of a concept completely, thus allowing them to have information that isn’t contingent upon opinion change or have said information altered as a result of being proven wrong (Reeve and Miller, 104). This is why “true beliefs “flee from the soul” in that “like a runaway slave, they won’t

The Topic: If there is a conflict between human law and a person’s conscience, which should he or she follow? What circumstances should influence his or her decision? Conscience: Basically conscience is the intuition, judgment or the aptitude of any individual which helps or assists in the differentiating between the right and the wrong. It can be termed as the moral judgment which is based on the values or the moral norms or rules and principles which different individuals possess and regard. Conscience

Ethics Essay (2500-3000 words) What ethical theory is most consistent with lawyer’s professional responsibilities? • Introduction Lawyers play a key role in the preservation of society. Their job requires them to both serve their clients needs whilst simultaneously upholding the rules outline by the law. Additionally, lawyers as professionals are required to a higher standard of behaviour than that of a non-professional, such as a retail assistant. The concept of an ethical code for the legal

In Bryan Stevenson’s book, Just Mercy, he addresses the hardships faced by African Americans in society and in the legal justice system. Through the author’s efforts to accomplish changes in our legal system, he utilizes three different group values including: common purpose, collaboration, and controversy with civility. All three of these groups values are interconnected and different in their own way and are essential in accomplishing social change. Collaboration, common purpose, and collaboration

1. Book I Chapter iii. Politics is not an exact science Our account of this science will be adequate if it achieves such clarity as the subject-matter allows; for the same degree of precision is not to be expected in all discussions, any more than in all the products of handicraft. http://www.ncbar.gov/rules/rules.asp Preamble and Scope 0.1 Preamble: A Lawyer 's Responsibilities [12] In the nature of law practice, however, conflicting responsibilities are encountered. Virtually all difficult ethical