Essays on Sense Of Right And Wrong

C.S. Lewis wrote, in the essay entitled The Law of Human Nature, that our sense of right and wrong is what binds us together as human beings but the question is whether he is correct or not. Upon some consideration, it would seem that he has a valid argument. We are all within a society that imposes a fairly standardised set of basic laws, regardless of the culture: do not steal, do not harm others, and respect others. Lewis claims that we our bound together by our desire to live up to those social expectations and that those of us who fail ...

Justice is the quality of being just or fair. Additionally, can be defined as the exercise of administrative law; the act of determining and assigning rewards or punishments. Moreover, justice is significant in determining how governance in a country can be judged. On the contrary, injustice can be termed as the quality of being unfair and biased especially in governance by the use of unjust laws which promote favoritism and inequality in resource distribution.

Conscience, the sense of right and wrong, in most cases is used as a guide in obeying just rules and disobeying unjust rules. Martin (1), who was ...

Imagine a boardroom full of people of different religious faiths – some agnostic, some Christian, some Hindu and so on. The board is attempting to reach a critical decision regarding an initiative which would potentially save the company. However, some of the Christians are having a hard time voting positively on it, because it would violate some of their own religious beliefs and ethics. This is a dilemma that requires the exploration of religion and ethics, and how they tie into working with organizations. In religion, there is always an ethical component, and vice versa. “For many people, ethics is not only tied ...