Deliberation

around $15 million (McMartin preschool trial of 1980). During those seven years (and the present) there were multiple stages. The stages during a trial are; opening statements, presenting evidence, closing arguments, jury instructions, and jury deliberation. Starting with opening statements, the defense counsel and prosecutors have a one sided conversation with the jury before each side presents their evidence. Prosecutors make their statements first and then they are followed by the defense.…

differences between Aristotle’s definition of choice and Wikipedia’s definition of choice. According to Aristotle, “Choice will be deliberate desiring of things in our own power; for when we have reached judgement as a result of deliberation we desire in accordance with our deliberation.” The Wikipedia definition of choice involves mentally making a decision: judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one or more of them. The contrast between the two definitions is Aristotle’s…

Winston Churchill has been quoted, “…Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” If democracy is the best of the worst alternatives, why do the majority of countries in the western hemisphere have a democratic system? Isn’t there a better choice out there that would benefit people? And because democracy is governed by the people, what makes the average citizen participate in government and what influences them to vote? Democracy originated in Athens,…

they have embedded within it. A true lifestyle is reached, according to Lorenzen, “When new practices are adopted they are incorporated into routines (automatic cognition) until or unless called into question by new knowledge, leading to further deliberation and revision” (106). Lorenzen continues by explaining, Green lifestyle change is a gradual, deliberate process that is a response to environmental harms… People define lifestyles as both holistic and in never-ending change. Overarching ideas…

inspire readers to choose their hearts over their heads over 130 years after its publication. Whether one examines the first time Huck considers turning Jim in, his reluctant apology, or his decision to protect Jim once and for all, these intense deliberations of the societal norms and the intuitive heart represent a larger change for which Huck’s…

versus the consequence of the patient having the option to decide about their own health. People that are competent to make decisions (Kleinlugtenbelt, Molewijk, & Widdershoven, 2011). According to the article, ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN MORAL CASE DELIBERATION: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND METHODOLOGY (2011), stated policies based on a control-related autonomy ideal should be reasonable, because to interfere with patients’ decisions, even regarding those individuals that base their information obtained…

action. He was accused of killing his father by stabbing him with a knife. The boy’s life is depended on the twelve juries, and those juries are gathered in all different work fields with a little knowledge in criminal justice. The juries began its deliberations; they started to vote and all the jury vote “guilty” except for one, voted “not guilty”. The discussion began when they started to go around the table and explained the reasons for their votes to convince the one jury who voted “not…

outcomes. Rather it is constantly morphing in the process of this deliberation. The inner dynamism of consciousness, according to Bergson, ensures that different states of our consciousness permeate and strengthen each other. And it is this dynamic series that would naturally lead to the formation a free act. The point is that it is the character of the self “is altering imperceptibly every day.” It changes in the deliberation as well as in the experience of its outcome. The free act springs…

the jury, as they are sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an inner city 18-year-old Latino teen accused of stabbing his father to death. The premises of the movie takes place in the jury chambers where the 12 all-white jury men must decide unanimously the fate of the accused murder; guilty or not guilty. The jurors are convinced that the boy is guilty and they take no time to hand down the guilty verdict, however upon deliberations one lone juror votes’ not guilty…

conclusion that Aristotle means that a natural slave is completely unable to deliberate, considering Aristotle never makes such a statement. Aristotle merely states that a natural slave “does not possess wholly”. Going by Aristotle’s definition, deliberation consists of two integral parts; expediency and a concern for the noble and beautiful. A concern for he noble and beautiful is addressed later throughout the article as the Greek word kalon, as an exact English translation does not exist.…