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Nov 30, 2023 · Individuals are called to make their own moral decisions, which is a fundamental part of being human. Therefore, it can be morally right, and even indicated, to break the law in certain situations. Sometimes laws look like they protect the rich and the wealthy at the cost of the poor and disadvantaged. Sometimes laws may feel unjust.
Jan 18, 2023 · A law, in the sense you mean, is simply a statement issued by a governing body, which demands that others behave in a certain way. The law does nothing, in itself, to ensure compliance. People can decide for themselves whether to comply with the law or break it, based on what they perceive to be the relative pros and cons of the two options.
Dec 3, 2019 · It follows that when particular American laws only happens to be consistent to his version of philosophical natural law, he believes that he has a moral obligation to obey them, and vice versa. Besides, this also explains why King believes one has a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws (312): all natural law theorists more or less expect that natural law can be gradually revealed in ...
Jan 4, 2007 · On the most widely accepted account of civil disobedience, famously defended by John Rawls (1971), civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies. On this account, people who engage in civil disobedience are willing to accept the legal ...
Sep 21, 2020 · Faced with a choice between escaping without consequences and submitting to a democratic decision, Socrates chooses the latter. So immense is Socrates’ duty to obey law, we are led to believe, that even the threat of death is insufficient to abrogate it. Crito proposes several arguments purporting to ground Socrates’ strong duty to obey, with the appeal to the Athenian system’s ...
- Andreas Marcou
- a.marcou@qmul.ac.uk
- 2021
Abstract. This chapter discusses civil disobedience and the principles of legal, moral, and political obligation. Political obligation might be used to refer to duties by some system of political behaviour stemming from an acknowledged source of political theory. The phrases ‘legal obligation’ or ‘the obligation to obey the law’ might ...
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Lecture 3. In the Apology, Socrates proposes a new kind of citizenship in opposition to the traditional one that was based on the poetic conception of Homer. Socrates’ is a philosophical citizenship, relying on one’s own powers of independent reason and judgment. The Crito, a dialogue taking place in Socrates’ prison cell, is about civil ...
