Obedience Essay

For thousands of years, Confucianism and Daoism—two very noble and virtuous ideologies—have been practiced in the world. Correspondingly, teachings of both Confucius and Zhuangzi have proven incredibly influential in cultures around the world and has inspired many in political activeness, music, art, film, poetry, and much more. Joseph Smith once stated, “I teach them correct principles, and they govern themselves.” Meaning the faithful are taught the truth and they follow their own paths guided…

asking the subjects if they remembered their instructions. I think a flaw of the study was having a smaller sample. I think this study should have been replicated with several other populations to effectively learn more about superior instructions, obedience, and the psychology surrounding attitudes and behavior. Another flaw was not including other races in the group conditions because the study does not generalize to all of America’s population; other races are discriminated against in…

I do not think that Socrates would be morally justified if he escaped the jail cell based off civil obedience. I think the biggest thing that plays a role here would be based off Socrates need to live a just life. Socrates states many times that he has spent his whole life making sure that he did right thing, and now it would be good to change based off a different situation. If he left even being held for the wrong reasons he would then be faced with the fear of being caught for leaving, which…

Classical China made various contributions in many areas such as, the areas of political institutions, religion, culture, economy, and society. The Qin and Han dynasties were agricultural states that valued ancestors, had a uniform tax system, a strict code of law, and a bureaucracy. The Han bureaucracy consisted of upperclassmen and people who could pass the civil service examination. Emperor Wudi established this exam, that tested law and Chinese literature. Emperor Wudi also established a…

to live out a simpler life, which was his way of peaceful resistance to governing laws. His example is expressed to let people know that there is a way of living without conforming to government rules, and it is possible to live in peace without obedience.…

other actions—to create social, political and economic change. Civil resistance movements are powerful because they shift people’s loyalties and behavior patterns. When people in a society choose to withdraw their consent from, and reduce their obedience and cooperation with, an unjust system, that system becomes more costly to operate. When enough…

advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it” (Prov 7:12) and “Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city” (Prov 7:19) Wisdom leads one into the path of righteousness. Wisdom is obedience and obedience leads to righteousness. Wisdom will take you further than knowledge because there is danger in having knowledge without wisdom. If you don’t have wisdom that goes with knowledge, you are only a walking encyclopedia. A book of…

First of all, the Holy Spirit gives believers the freedom to grow in sanctification and to glorify God. Believers have freedom simply because it is God’s gift to us, thus it can only be exercised in faith by walking by the spirit. (“galatians 5:13-26”) God has not given this freedom so people can live their lives for their own pleasure, but for the first time, they can do what God desires out of love for Him. The Holy Spirit gives true believers this desire to serve God. Believers will not enjoy…

every individual fairly and with dignity. By staying away from ethical issues will reduce the amount of conflict and will allow patients to realise that we support their choices. Milgram is a psychologist and he carried out an experiment on obedience due to authority and any conflict which may arise. Milgram’s study had many ethical issues and when I discuss some ethical issues relating to health and social care I will also link the ethical issues with Milgram’s study. Milgram was interested…

Pascal’s wager is one of Blaise Pascal’s, a 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, most famous works. It is included in the work titled Pensees (thoughts) and was published posthumously in 1670. According to Pascal one cannot come to the knowledge of God’s existence through reason alone, therefore one should live life as if God does exist, and if he does indeed exist then we have gained heaven. If god doesn’t exist, then we have lost nothing. Although let’s just say god does exist,…