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Mar 10, 2021 · Is God important for morality? Can we figure out moral principles for ourselves? Do we use reason to do morality – and, if so, what’s the goal of our moral reasoning?
- Aristotle
28 The Virtues Aristotle 90. Aristotle’s Virtues. Book I....
- Kristin Seemuth Whaley
Accordingly, morality is independent of God, and God’s...
- Friedrich Nietzsche
29 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche 91. Beyond Good...
- Immanuel Kant
This imperative may be called that of morality. There is a...
- Jan F. Jacko
In this text, “morality” means a system of moral norms and...
- Plato
And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and...
- Aristotle
- Law, Morality, and Religion in Classic Modern Theory
- Law, Religion, and Morality in Modern Jurisprudence
- Law, Morality, and Religion in Later Theory
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), in The Prince (1517), dismissed the concept of the common good as the primary telos of the sovereign's legislative activity, replacing it with the hallmark of political realism, the raison d'état. Machiavelli's prince only needed to concern himself with the balance and preservation of power while exercising statecra...
William Blackstone (1723–1780) strongly espoused natural-law theory in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769). Human positive law must be subsumed under the natural order, and "no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this." Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), in the first volume of his Democracy in America (1835), described ho...
According to Max Weber (1864–1920), modern Western societies developed on the basis of "functional differentiation" between social spheres. This process of social division has changed the basis of societal solidarity and disrupted social integration by rationalizing and minimizing the impact of traditional forms of cultural cohesion, a process ofte...
Augustine. City of God (413–426). Translated by George E. McCracken. Cambridge, Mass., 1957. Austin, John. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832). Edited by Wilfrid E. Rumble. Cambridge, U.K., and New York, 1995. Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government(1776). Edited by J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart. London, 1968. Bentham, Jeremy. An Intr...
Sep 27, 2006 · Religion and Morality in Western Philosophy. From the beginning of the Abrahamic faiths and of Greek philosophy, religion and morality have been closely intertwined in Western thought. This is true whether we go back within Greek philosophy or within Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
These debates examine how and when state law persists as a meaningful arena of contestation; the role of indigenous elites and arrangements of legal pluralism in colonial contexts; and new approaches to economy, race, and sovereignty and citizenship.
Sep 23, 2002 · ‘Natural law theory’ is a label that has been applied to theories of ethics, theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religious morality.
Accordingly, morality is independent of God, and God’s commands are restricted to only what is right. Morality is not affected or changed by God’s will. If this is the case, then a whole range of facts, moral facts, are outside the scope of God’s control, and God has no power to change them.
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Is law just a matter of social fact? Or does it have some essential contact with morality? In this chapter we shall consider ways in which law may be thought to have a moral dimension. There seems little doubt that law interacts with moral opinions.
