Justice Essay

In developing his theory of justice, Rawls is primarily concerned with the basic structure of society, not the personal conduct of individuals (Kymlicka 2002: 10). His theory is constructed with a particular conception of society in mind, namely, that of the modern nation-state (Parfit 2011: 346), and furthermore, his theory is focused on justice within such a society, not on interactions between different societies (Singer 1993: 253). In formulating his theory, Rawls also stipulates some…

In “Plato’s Republic: Justice and the Good Life”, Socrates explores the subject of morality and justice within the soul. His quest to find the answer first involves analyzing justice in a city, and then in the soul and lastly by answering the question why be moral? He accomplishes this by analyzing different levels of justice in the soul from different individuals. First, I will reconstruct Plato’s account of justice as three parts of the soul, those being the rational, spirited and appetite…

Justice is the central theme of Plato’s Republic. In his attempt to explain the meaning of justice and why it is good in itself Plato equips a vivid analogy between the soul and the state. He first examines justice in the city; he believes that this will be more readily apparent since the city is the larger unit (368e-69b). From this, he analogously derives his idea of individual justice with the use of his theory of the tripartite soul (435b-c). He concludes that justice at the societal level…

John Rawls in his “A Theory of Justice” tries to identify an alternative viable theory of social justice to other predominant doctrines, which have dominated our philosophical tradition. While the author acknowledges that most citizens and institutions recognise the principle of social justice, he also underlines that their conceptions on the distribution of basic rights and duties are influenced by their interests and hence, are not always to the advantage of all citizens. In fact, Rawls…

The re-emergence of restorative justice occurred across the globe during the 1970’s as a viable alternative to traditional criminal justice processes (Mika & Zehr, 2003). Restorative justice focuses on repairing the harm caused to the victim by the offender after an offense has occurred (Maxwell, 2007a, 2007c; Zehr, 1990). The 1990’s saw the implementation of the Family Group Conference (FGC) in New Zealand’s youth justice system with the passing of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families…

wrote an article of why Restorative Justice Can Bring About the Healing Process. Restorative Justice is, “ Participants gather in circles to try to resolve problems through discussion, rather retribution.” So why would Restorative Justice not work if it helps people heal. Three good reasons why Restorative Justice does work is because it stops student violence, reduces suspensions, and helps troubled teens to open up to the problem. Some people think Restorative Justice won’t work because it's…

Socrates’s view of Justice After the debate about justice between Socrates and Thrasymachus, Glaucon plays a devil’s advocate and argues with Socrates about justice. Glaucon starts out his argument by stating, “we can see most clearly that those who practice justice do it unwillingly and because they lack the power to do injustice” . He then goes on to say that people do just acts out of fear and weakness and are afraid of punishments for injustice. At the end of Book IV, Glaucon changes…

Plato’s Republic, the images of justice are perceived differently between several characters in this novel. Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Thrasymachus, all present contrasting ideals of justice compared to the one envisioned by Socrates. Using the art of rhetoric, Socrates utilizes argumentation to identify the faults in each individual’s vision of justice, and how his unconventional perception of justices can change their entire society. The first vision of justice discussed in The Republic was…

answer to a question we have all probably asked ourselves, what is Justice? Plato uses the Republic to illustrate the definitions that one may find for the word. However, a question that I will be tackling in this essay is, "If one does not believe in God, the does Justice matter?" asked by Daniel Frankel. The answer is no, Justice would not matter if one did not believe in Him and I will prove my thesis through the definitions of Justice in the eyes of Cephalus, his son Polemarchus & a sophist…

Economic Justice is something that is crucial to the way society works today. Therefore it can be evaluated by deontology. This is because each citizen has a duty to economic justice, a right to earn money in order to provide, and consequences for not contributing or not providing. Deontology works best when evaluating economic justice because it focuses on the right and duties, as well as, the consequences. Deontology pertains because economic justice is about citizen’s right to be involved in…