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    with‚ we have to face serious consequences. Great philosophers have researched that other educational systems do not abide by the laws of natural growth‚ which result in indolent‚ exhausted and fed up children. We should neither be stern nor be compassionate in handling children. We just need to practice a new approach towards child education‚ which paves way for “Natural growth or development“. This can be seen in plants‚ animals as well as humans.                    Plants have their own strategy

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    NATURAL AND POSITIVE LAW When it comes down to the law‚ you either have a Naturalist view‚ a Positivists view‚ or both. When coming down to what is the right decision as an individual or as a society‚ there will always be different solutions and opinions as to what is the common sense decision. As an individual going through cases such as Oka‚ Latimer‚ Kevorkian‚ and Freedom Riders‚ there is a line that one should not cross but also a line that should be questioned. Every case initiates different

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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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    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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    police. There was one case where once the suspect confessed to his crime‚ another gang member confessed to his own crime. Yes‚ there are flaws in this technique‚ such as false confessions that can taint evidence‚ but it is the much safer route than torture. Even the Royal Mounted Canadian Police agrees that this is a method they will continue to

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