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Single Idea 347
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / a. Legal system
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Full Idea
Do I intend to destroy the laws, because the state wronged me by passing a faulty judgement at my trial?
Gist of Idea
Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged?
Source
Socrates (reports of last days [c.399 BCE]), quoted by Plato - Crito 50c
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.90
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[the system used by a government to enforce laws]:
6326
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The better known the law, the more criminals there are
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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347
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Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged?
[Socrates]
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2806
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Man is the worst of all animals when divorced from law and justice
[Aristotle]
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2816
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If it is easy to change the laws, that makes them weaker
[Aristotle]
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22556
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Laws that match people's habits are more effective than mere written rules
[Aristotle]
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19881
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The aim of law is not restraint, but to make freedom possible
[Locke]
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19819
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The state ensures liberty, so civil law separates citizens, and binds them to the state
[Rousseau]
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14847
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Laws that are well thought out, or laws that are easy to understand?
[Nietzsche]
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20932
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Positive law needs secondary 'rules of recognition' for their correct application
[Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J]
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23523
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The principle of legality requires crimes to be precisely defined in advance of any action
[Hart,HLA]
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23524
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Some private moral issues are no concern of the law
[Hart,HLA]
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23521
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Do morals influence law? Is morality an aspect of law? Can law be morally criticised?
[Hart,HLA]
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23525
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Is the enforcement of morality morally justifiable?
[Hart,HLA]
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23526
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Modern law still suppresses practices seen as immoral, and yet harmless
[Hart,HLA]
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23259
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There should be separate legislative, executive and judicial institutions
[Grayling]
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20612
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If being subject to the law resembles a promise, we are morally obliged to obey it
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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20611
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If others must obey laws that we like, we must obey laws that they like?
[Tuckness/Wolf]
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