MORAL OBLIGATION UNDER CONSTRAINT: A SITUATIONIST ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POVERTY RELIEF

Law, Morality And Social Order: A Critical Examination

Law is a system of rules which is recognized by a particular country or community for regulating the actions of its members and enforce by the imposition of sanctions. Law and morality are interrelated. Law represents the formal rules and regulations established by a recognized authority. The relationship between law a...

Orienting Public Policy

Moral philosophers and academic ethicists contribute to society in several ways: as members of advisory committees, authors of policy reports, and public intellectuals engaged in policy debates. They do so not merely as citizens, but in their professional capacity as academics participating in democratic public reasoni...

UTILITARIANISM AND HUMAN DIGNITY: A MILLIAN PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIAL WELFARE AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Utilitarianism has often been criticised for its alleged inability to account for human dignity, particularly in societies where social welfare policies risk subordinating individual worth to aggregate utility. This problem becomes especially pressing in the Nigerian context, where persistent challenges such as poverty...

Law and Morality: An Everlasting Debate

Role of Ethics and Values in Shaping Human Life in Contemporary Society

Ethics and Human values play a fundamental role in shaping individual behavior and guiding social interaction in contemporary Society. They are the guiding principles of life that contribute to the all round development of an individual. Ethics, as a system of moral principles, helps individuals distinguish between rig...

The Moral Theology of Climate Justice: Addressing Inequality and Political Fragility

This paper develops the moral theology of climate justice, which focuses on how it can be used to solve the inequality of the environment and political instability. The study relies on the interdisciplinary literature of theology, ethics, and climate studies to analyze how religious paradigm influences the moral rea...