No Imagination for Evil
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A recent article in the Spectator Australia (7-8-2021) by Professor James Allan, drew attention to a person’s responsibility in the sphere:
“How do legal rules and legal obligations look similar to, and different from, moral rules and moral obligations? And in his discussion of the third of those, Hart comes down strongly on the side of the need for all of us to distinguish law and morality, the claims of the one and of the other.”
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Professor Allan has called to light the existential challenge of our time in Australia. It is a very thought provoking article in this time of SARS_COV2 societal challenge.
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As a layman, I have no expertise in the law, but like every other person (with the exception of clinical psychopaths perhaps?) I do have some personal experience of conscience and flowing from it the moral and ethical imperatives.
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This of course presents the conundrum of what is conscience and where does it come from; taking it out of the rational scientific materialism domain and lobbing it squarely, for this wayfarer, in the soul of man domain.
This of course is total baloney for the great majority of the population (95%) but it is not until faced with a real existential problem that has no obvious silver bullet fix, that these questions may start to fleetingly flash across the screen of many peoples’ minds.
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Have a read of Professor Allan’s article and see what you think.
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A recent article in the Spectator Australia (7-8-2021) by Professor James Allan, drew attention to a person’s responsibility in the sphere:
“How do legal rules and legal obligations look similar to, and different from, moral rules and moral obligations? And in his discussion of the third of those, Hart comes down strongly on the side of the need for all of us to distinguish law and morality, the claims of the one and of the other.”
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Professor Allan has called to light the existential challenge of our time in Australia. It is a very thought provoking article in this time of SARS_COV2 societal challenge.
1
As a layman, I have no expertise in the law, but like every other person (with the exception of clinical psychopaths perhaps?) I do have some personal experience of conscience and flowing from it the moral and ethical imperatives.
1
This of course presents the conundrum of what is conscience and where does it come from; taking it out of the rational scientific materialism domain and lobbing it squarely, for this wayfarer, in the soul of man domain.
This of course is total baloney for the great majority of the population (95%) but it is not until faced with a real existential problem that has no obvious silver bullet fix, that these questions may start to fleetingly flash across the screen of many peoples’ minds.
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Have a read of Professor Allan’s article and see what you think.