legitimate authority to the sources thesis is not sound. I make that argument in Part II after‚ in Part I‚ reconstructing Raz’s argument. I Does law claim legitimate authority? Raz says it does. Adhering to the prevailing view in jurisprudence‚ Raz appears to agree that legitimate authority consists in a right to rule paired with a correlative obligation among the authority’s subjects to obey. This talk of “rights” and “obligations” differs legitimate authority from illegitimate authority‚ and since
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To what degree should people follow orders of superiors due to their authority? A Few Good Men is a movie where the moral difference between right and wrong is very unclear in the name of following authority. Professors of sociology‚ Kelman and Hamilton worked together on “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” where they tried to apply reason to the soldiers who committed a massacre of unarmed women and children during the Vietnam War. Theodore Dalrymple is a physician who wrote “Just
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs by Saul McLeod published 2007‚ updated 2014 Maslow wanted to understand what motivates people. He believed that people possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires. Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fullfil the next one‚ and so on. The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow’s (1943‚ 1954) hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs‚ often
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examine the psyche of the main leader of a genocide (the authoritative figure)‚ but instead analyzed the followers thereof (the loyal submissives who went against their conscience to follow the leader’s orders) (McLeod‚ 2007). This obedience to authority is
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The Hierarchy of Needs Theory by Abraham Maslow (1943‚ 1954) In the demanding world of business‚ motivation of the employers as well as of employees play a tremendous role (McKay‚ “Importance of Motivation and Goal Setting for Businesses”). Unfortunately‚ theories about human motivation and what drives the employers and their employees to be motivated have not been studied until only recently. This paper will cover the Hierarchy of Needs Theory which analyzes the driving factors of human motivation
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Critically evaluate Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a way of understanding employee motivation in contemporary Chinese business As is worldwide recognized‚ since the opening and economic reform was launched in 1978‚ China has made great achievements in poverty eradication and economic liberation (Brockmann et al‚ 2008); meanwhile‚ Chinese companies have become more powerful than before. However‚ in the world business‚ only a minority of them have the capacity to compete with foreign companies. Since
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Political authorities had a tremendous influence in the course of the Protestant Reformation. During the sixteenth century‚ the roles of authoritative figures who held political power and religious leaders were very similar. The dual roles of the monarchy and the church created an unstable political environment that became the catalyst of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther was born on November 1483 in Eisleben‚ Saxony‚ modern day southeast Germany. He was born into a family of miners. Knowing
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different positions in the social hierarchy often causes conflict within these populations. Shakespeare analyzes this topic in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He accomplishes this through several sets of characters that are divided by social rankings. Although this theme is applied to Elizabethan times in Shakespeare’s writing‚ the social hierarchy is still prevalent in today’s world. In well developed countries like the United States‚ many believe that the social hierarchy has been destroyed. There
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PAGE 1 – THE NATURE AND AUTHORITY OF THE SHARIA PAGE 2 – HOW THE WILL OF GOD MAY BE KNOWN REGARDING CONTEMPORAY ISSUES PAGE 3 – AUTHORITY PAGE 4 – IMPORTANCE (GUIDE TO LIFE‚ ACCURACY) PAGE 5 – DIFFERING UNDERSTANDINGS OF IJTIHAD PAGE 6 – GLOSSARY Nature and Authority of the Shari’a In technical terms it is a clearly defined way of following the guidance of God that was left as a pattern for Islamic living by each of the messengers: Muhammad [SAW] left a Shari’a left for the
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Maslow’s Hierarchy is a pyramid that is divided into five sequential sections that reflect the needs of human beings ascending from bottom to top in this order: physiological needs‚ safety needs‚ social needs‚ esteem needs‚ and self-actualization. In Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ the different needs of Maslow’s hierarchy are embodied in the protagonist‚ Pi’s survival. After the ship he was travelling on sinks in the Pacific Ocean‚ Pi finds himself on a lifeboat with limited supplies and only a Bengal
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