Obedience Essay

The Lord is Worthy of Obedience and Worship The new generation of Israelites is about to go into the promise land after wandering through the desert for forty years. The book of Deuteronomy, the second law, is a speech from Moses to the Israelites before they enter into the promise land. The book is divided up into three sections. The first part of Moses speech is highlighting the past experience of the Israelites, the second part is the book is God’s laws and commands, and the third section…

Importance of Obedience Obedience is an extremely important aspect of our society and plays a huge role in today's civilized lifestyle. People in a civil society have been raised to believe that obeying orders will have a positive outcome and disobeying comes with negative consequences. There have been many experiments over time that have tested the lengths that people would go to obey orders or conform to expectations under the directions from an authority figure. Philip G. Zimbardo conducted…

In the article “Socrates on political obedience and disobedience” by Gregory Vlastos it talks about Socrates, Athens, law obedience and disobedience. It was mentioned in David Humes essay that Socrates rejects to escape from prison due to the fact he wanted to obey the laws. It was very clear that Socrates didn’t want to disobey the law and escape from prison, while many others would have escaped in this situation and wouldn’t have cared if they broke a law. However, it is very interesting…

What is obedience? What does it mean to be obedient? Obedience “is the act or practice of obeying; dutiful or submissive compliance” (Dictionary). Sometimes, people as result of being prideful over being obedient there are negative consequences. It is acceptable to have pride, but not to a point where one chooses pride over obedience. People who put pride over obedience are called selfish. It was told in the Bible, “When pride comes, then comes shame; but with the lowly is wisdom”(Pro.11: 2).…

Obedience Jonestown the Peoples Temple Through my research and findings of obedience to authority this ancient dilemma is somewhat confusing but needs understanding. Problem with obedience to authority has raised a question to why people obey or disobey and if there are any right time to obey or not to obey. Through observation of many standpoints on obedience and disobedience to authority, and determined through detailed examination conducted by Milgram “The Perils Of Obedience,” Doris Lessing…

conducting research since no harm should be done to the participants. However, research still misses the mark. One example of this is Stanley Milgram’s obedience study (1963). This study is considered so unethical that it is one that led to the establishment of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Belmont Report. According to the IRB, Milgram’s obedience study, albeit one that contributed immensely to academia, is considered unethical because…

theories are accepted. They help us learn and understand why human culture is the way it is. Without this discipline it would be difficult to categorize the way humans would act in different situations. Within the humanities, the theory of human obedience and conformity has sparked much controversy and relates to larger issues. Better known as the agentic state theory, it is important to consider its applications because on the extremes it can account for events from human survival to…

social influence lead people conform, comply and be obedient to people with authority. There are several theories on human behaviors in society which emphasized three import characteristics that is worth further evaluation. Compliance, conformity and obedience all share similarities but, also have marginal differences. Compliance is the accomplishment of a specified instruction. In conformity, the person being…

The well-known general, Robert E. Lee once claimed, "Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character." What initiates normal people to make unthinkable decisions? The article, "The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram, contains an experiment that demonstrates how far people will go and continue to obey authority. Milgram conducts tests using random subjects, actors, and a fake electric chair; he gives the subjects the power to increase voltage and potentially "harm" the…

In “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram, he communicates his discoveries of a research experiment in which he performed attempting to provide evidence of the distances individuals determine to go through as a result of becoming obedient to authoritative figures. The experiment consists of three subjects to be tested; the experimenter, the teacher, and the learner. The experimenter gives an explanation of the research experiment being conducted and “the study is concerned with the effects…