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    my life and 2 ½ years in Granville County and has had the same thought for all that time. I’ve never thought of any theory to be right besides Religious Ethics. None of my life I paid attention to any other theory besides Divine Command Theory until I took this course. I was satisfied with just believing there was no way possibly another theory could come close to Divine theory. I researched and read other people opinions and I have to think about other people feelings as well. I found that

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    have the origin in contemporary criminology are classicism and positivism. Classicism has the origin in the eighteenth century and positivism in the nineteenth. Both‚ the classical and the positivism theory are expanded in the past with their own roots‚ but in today criminal justice system are still alive. Classicism was first developed by Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham‚ two famous writers which propose in their works that both law and administration of justice should be based on rationality

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    Natural Law VS. Positive Law Laws are rules established by a governing authority to organize and maintain orderly existence. It can generally be divided into two principles: Natural law‚ which is based on the divine‚ and Positive law which states that laws are what the lawmakers command. Throughout history many philosophers have come to be linked to either branch of law. Philosophers such as Aristotle advocated Natural law‚ while others‚ such as Thomas Hobbes‚ supported Positive law. Each

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    The Natural Capitalism theory shows‚ how people decisions and needs influence on external environment: nature‚ animals and all others. It doesn’t mean that ‚this way of thinking wanted from us become more confident and careful about nature‚ but it shows‚ that there are still a lot of opportunities which people can support and apply ‚in order to change modern tendency of pollution process and uncontrolled wastes. The theory of Natural Capitalism was explained in book: “Natural Capitalism: Creating

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    March 2013 (Q1) This question is related to natural justice. In natural justice there are two main point of natural justice : Audi Alterm Partem (right to be heard) and Nemo Judex In Causa Sua (rules against bias). In Badrul issues there are several cases that Badrul must to know:- a) Whether he knew about the charge and consequence of the charge b) Whether the sufficient time was given to him c) Whether he was allowed to bring witness d) Whether there was a bias in his case. The first

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    word ‘Natural’ in Natural Moral Law (25) In society today‚ we define Nature as something that is not made by humankind but rather is instinctual. St Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) believed our telos can be discovered by using our human reason to reflect on our human nature and work out what we need to do in order to achieve our particular telos. And so Natural Moral Law is defined as the moral Law of God which has been built into us at creation by God. Aquinas’s ideas of Natural moral Law stemmed

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    Passive vs. Active Euthanasia Natural Law Theory states that an action is only considered “right” if it does not intentionally or directly violate any of the four basic intrinsic goods that thirteenth-century philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas described. According to Aquinas‚ the four basic intrinsic goods are: human life‚ human procreation‚ human knowledge and human sociability. So for example‚ according to natural law theory‚ using contraceptives such as condoms or birth control pills would not be

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    Natural selection is mainly thought of as being applied to the biological and physical features of organisms during evolution. The traits that help humans survive through different circumstances will continue to be passed to the next generations because through natural selection the fittest survive. Charles Darwin then applies natural selection to morality in societies. I agree that natural selection can also be applied to the moral faculties of humans. A society’s viewpoint on rationality‚ and what

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    Law‚ a set of coherent rules and values within a society‚ is a human process. As such‚ it is crucial to approach its application within society in a pragmatic and realistic sense rather than a formal one‚ which views law as a set of mechanical and abstract principles. A legal realist approach on law takes into account extra-legal factors which help shape how law is used within a social context. This approach does not view the discipline of law as a literal set of principles to be formally detected

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    sociology of law (or legal sociology) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. While some socio-legal scholars see the sociology of law as "necessarily" belonging to the discipline of sociology‚ others see it as a field of research caught up in the disciplinary tensions and competitions between the two established disciplines of law and sociology. Yet‚ others regard it neither as a sub-discipline of sociology nor as a branch of legal studies

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