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law . Human law - in this case , the law of the Roman Empire to which Judea belonged as a province - decreed that tribute be paid to Rome . The problem is this : in paying tribute to Rome , do the Jews acknowledge Rome and Caesar as the ...
law . Human law - in this case , the law of the Roman Empire to which Judea belonged as a province - decreed that tribute be paid to Rome . The problem is this : in paying tribute to Rome , do the Jews acknowledge Rome and Caesar as the ...
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а One of the most important aspects of human law , therefore , is the punishment to which a lawbreaker is subjected . Though transgressions of the divine and natural law are also punished , the penalties are not so immediate .
а One of the most important aspects of human law , therefore , is the punishment to which a lawbreaker is subjected . Though transgressions of the divine and natural law are also punished , the penalties are not so immediate .
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What the law requires has now become legally just . Do human laws bind a man as strictly as the natural or the divine law ? The latter two bind , in Aquinas ' phrase , in “ the court of conscience . ” They must be obeyed not merely ...
What the law requires has now become legally just . Do human laws bind a man as strictly as the natural or the divine law ? The latter two bind , in Aquinas ' phrase , in “ the court of conscience . ” They must be obeyed not merely ...
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Contents
PLATO Euthyphro Laws Apology | 17 |
ARISTOTLE Nicomachean Ethics | 29 |
OLD TESTAMENT Exodus and Deuteron | 45 |
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| Title | Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence Volume 5 of Great ideas program |
| Authors | Mortimer Jerome Adler, Peter Wolff |
| Editor | Peter Wolff |
| Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 |
| ISBN | 085229137X, 9780852291375 |
| Length | 251 pages |
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