Key Thinkers on Law, Order, Justice and Obligation

1. He dismissed the view that justices should be applied in equal measure to all things. He thought that different rules should apply to different areas of justice (i.e. wealth, income, society etc.) (6)
4. Nations were subject to natural law - this would prevail even if the state did not believe in God nor care for the lives of humans. (7)
5. Suggested that citizens have an absolute obligation to obey political obligation regardless of the behaviour of the government. Said citizens had an obligation but the state did not. (6)
6. Punishment of crime should aim to restore the victim to their proper place in society. If this is not done, then wrong is treated as right. Punishment needs to be objective, universal and mediated. (5)
7. Said that people should not allow government's to overrule their conscience and that we have a duty to topple unjust governments to make them agents of justice. (7)
10. Opposed political obligationas he saw it as dangerous - he believed that politics was based on the complete subordination to 'the master' and was of the opinion that society would collapse if it were not bound together. (2, 7)

2. Natural law prevailed in the Garden of Eden but, since then, we are now bound by sin and positive law. (9, 2, 5)
3. Held that it was wrong to harm another person (phsyically or psychologically) no matter what injury they may have inflicted upon you. Therefore, civil disobedience should not be allowed. (8)
8. Developed the philosophy of Satyagraha which is a term used to describe non-violent resistance. He aimed to make opponents see the error of their ways through sympathy and patience. (6)
9. Citizens makes a promise to obey the state by actually choosing to remain in that state. (5)

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