Hammurabi’s Laws: Were they just?
Way back 4,000 years ago, there lived a man named Hammurabi. He was a person who had full control of Babylon. Hammurabi was dead set on protecting the widows and orphans, and to protect the weak from the strong. To do this, he made a set of 282 laws, called Hammurabi’s Code. I think the majority of Hammurabi’s laws were just, and I have reasons to believe this. I will split this essay into a few different parts: Family Law, Personal Injury Law, and Property Law.
I think they are just because, well, in document A it states that they were given to him by Shamash, the God of Justice. I can’t exactly confirm this, but it was in the paper, so I have to put it on here. Not really rock-hard proof, but it works!
Way back 4,000 years ago, there lived a man named Hammurabi. He was a person who had full control of Babylon. Hammurabi was dead set on protecting the widows and orphans, and to protect the weak from the strong. To do this, he made a set of 282 laws, called Hammurabi’s Code. I think the majority of Hammurabi’s laws were just, and I have reasons to believe this. I will split this essay into a few different parts: Family Law, Personal Injury Law, and Property Law.
I think they are just because, well, in document A it states that they were given to him by Shamash, the God of Justice. I can’t exactly confirm this, but it was in the paper, so I have to put it on here. Not really rock-hard proof, but it works!