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    Civil Disobedience and Its Justification in Respect to Moral Aspects
    (University of North Bengal, 2025) Biswas, Monalisha
    Civil disobedience has been a central issue in recent times in the field of political philosophy. The most important moral question related to the problem of civil disobedience concerns the limits of a citizen's obedience owed to the state. The problem of political obligation raises questions such as: 1. To what extent does the citizen have an obligation to obey the laws of the state? 2. Is the citizen of a state, whether democratic or otherwise, under an obligation to obey the unjust laws of the state? There are two different positions or viewpoints concerning the character of the obligation to obey the laws of the State. 1. The first position states .........."one has an absolute obligation to obey the law and therefore disobedience to the state law is never justified". 2. The second position asserts -------- "one has a Prima facie obligation to obey the law, but this obligation can be overridden by conflicting obligations. Hence, disobedience to the state law can be justified in the presence of outweighing circumstances".
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    Sartre on Three Waves of Ethics: A Philosophical Reflection
    (University of North Bengal, 2025) Sutradhar, Tulika
    In this research paper, an attempt has been made to analyze Sartre’s consideration of morality by following his philosophical approach to human existence. Many thinkers have disdained to regard Sartre’s existentialism as a moral philosophy because of his negative analysis of human existence. Sartre himself promised in his Being and Nothingness that he would further work on morality and indeed he developed his moral thought gradually in his later writings. However, in various ways, Sartre has been criticized for his moral thought, particularly for his doctrine of the key concept of freedom. It is noticed from Sartre’s philosophical works that he has shifted his morality from one phase to another. His moral philosophy is divided into three major sections which are interrelated with each other. However, the subsequent versions are far more enriched than the previous ones. This article aims to explore the underlying insight of the transition from one ethical wave to another ethical wave with a critical outlook.