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the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

This paper discusses the societal and legal system primary and secondary rules' functions in accordance with Hart's 'rule of recog...

a fictitious narrative (Marenbon 40). His texts successfully incorporated quantitative and qualitative perspectives (Nasr and Raz...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

guide the making of the law. In applying this to the study of the law and how it is made there...

Austin has built this particular theory into what he calls "positivism," which is defined as what the law is, or, in more legal te...

philosophers, and thinkers, to come up with new ways in which to examine the world around them. However, still yet, another author...

of legal scholars and justices like these, the concept of the divine origin of justice and law was retained until relatively recen...

later in the nineteenth century; those of evolutionary ethics, where there was a duty to pursue the already existing processes and...

as burglary and even bigamy, where offenders may be granted a higher sentence, and as such we need to question the morals of a soc...

In eight pages this paper considers a fictitious 'aggressive panhandling' opposition provincial law within the context of the Cana...

In five pages this report examines civil liberties and the concept of 'original understanding' as it applies to natural law, legal...

legislation: where the two conflict, national laws are subordinate to those of the EU. If judges are uncertain as to how a ruling ...

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

has been telling about itself for centuries now" (35). This "story" is one which rejects the positive elements of religion, especi...

As far as al-Ghazali was concerned, "God can do anything he wants, he can punish virtuous people and reward the wicked, he is unde...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

In fifteen pages this narrative poem is analyzed in terms of its depiction of the eighteenth century man with each of the four sec...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In five pages this paper examines why wives grow tired of their husbands and leave them in an application of a philosophical argum...