RELIGST 2C03- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
4 Oct 2017
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The curious concept of human dignity: consider the opening line from the preamble to the universal declaration of human. In the major monotheistic traditions humanity is understood as an image bearer" or a. Vice regent" of god and should be accorded a reverence/respect similar to that shown to. If law belongs to reason of all human actions. If human laws are unjust it is because they: are ordained for private/particular good, have not issued from the proper authorities, are formally unequal (viz. disproportionate distribution) If human laws are unjust our conscience should convict us to disobey them: civil disobedience however should not inflict more harm/violence than the harm/violence inflicted by the unjust law itself. The good pursued would not involve the avoidance of evil morally permissible: the act must be morally good or at least indifferent. Incidental not intentional: the agent may not positively will the bad effect but may permit it.
