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Aquinas, Aristotle and Mil's Views on the Law

John Stuart Mill presented his take on the law in On Liberty. This paper contrasts his view with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics an...

Maintaining Order Through Law

role to play, on its own it does not give a moral framework, only a legal framework. However, in the opinion of Devlin it was more...

California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

Thomas Jefferson: Aristocracy, Education, Elections And Government

enough of these will find their way into every branch of the legislation, to protect themselves...I think the best remedy is exact...

Controlled Vocabulary v. Natural Language

A 3 page research paper that address this topic. Effective communication is much more likely to occur when everyone involved in a ...

LAW FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS

This 3-page paper analyzes tenant and landlord law, going into issues such as Implied Warranty of Habitability and tenant rights. ...

U.S. Constitution and Classical Liberalism

for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...

Environmental Compassion and Natural Rights

a simple matter of applying social responsibility, which is defined as being aware of the impacts ones actions have upon the rest ...

Political and Economic Power Correlation

In six pages this paper discusses the Enlightenment of the 19th century in terms of how Jefferson, Paine, Smith, Rousseau, and Loc...

Politics, Private Property, and the Philosophy of John Locke

and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Natural Law

In 5 pages this paper examines how the Elizabethans perceived natural law in a consideration of how it is represented in William S...

Overview of Natural Law

In six pages the theoretical perspectives of Cicero, Hobbes, and Aquinas are contrasted and compared as they relate to natural law...

Enlightened Age Elements of Progress, Nature, and Reason

and comparison of the volumes of literature that were produced during this era. Three of the great philosophers of this era, Thom...

'Original Understanding,' Positivism, Legal Realism, and Natural Law

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

Rousseau on Sexual Equality

This essay examines the writing of French philosophy Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The writer specifically examines Rousseau's discourse ...

Inevitability of War

In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...

A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Thomas Hobbes on War's Inevitability

This topic is discussed within the context of the book Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes in...

Natural Law and Saint Thomas Aquinas

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

Comparative Analysis of Utilitarianism and Natural Law Moral Theories

In twenty one pages this paper contrasts and compares natural law and utilitarianism in a consideration of their similarities and ...

Judiciary Function Theories

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

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Theory of Natural Law

reflects human nature and is able to discover the truth as it respects particular moral norms (Koterski 415). Natural law is somet...

An Exploration of Natural Law

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at natural law. Aquinas' basic formulations are examined, and criticisms are introduce...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Natural Law Theory Ring of Gyges

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

Natural Religion in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Thomas Hardys "Tess of the dUbervilles" was written in 1891. This was a time when the role...

“Natural Crimes” and “Legal Crimes”

be charged with statutory rape even if the girl consents, provided she is not of age. If she wants to make love with her boyfriend...

Rebirth of Natural Law: Finnis, Fuller and Devlin

practical reasonableness" that set apart the unsound practices from the sound practices, or thinking, which will ultimately lead t...

Issues of Politics, Natural Rights, and the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy

it also became an integral component of other areas of life, branching out into political and social implications. II. THE DIFFER...