Distributive justice

1963. When questioned of their imprisonment, Plato and King, Jr. are both determined to maintain justice despite the injustices charged against them, but for Plato, justice means upholding the law at all costs since one should do no wrong, whereas King is concerned with reforming the law, therefore doing wrong could make a “right”. To both King and Socrates, a portion of injustice in law damages justice as a whole. When Crito attempts to persuade Socrates…

Justice is the word that keeps death penalty at its cue, wandering for a truth and what true justice can bring; right for the wrong and right for the right. Are the government officials the ones with the right solutions? Are we the one’s to validate true justice? I think not and I believe you know this already. Death penalty does not constitute a cruel or unusual punishment, actually it serves what some look as justice; the satisfaction of one’s need to abate death or harm that was imposed by…

The Movement for Black Lives Platform: Economic Justice One of the six demands for the Movement for Black Lives platform is economic justice, which is the equal distribution of benefits. According to Bunch, efforts to achieve this platform include readjusting tax codes and redistribution of wealth, establishing federal and state job programs, providing renewed land, clean air, ensuring clean water and housing, the end of unjust control of resources, allowing the right for workers to organize…

Plato In The Republic, Plato acts as a scribe and recounts a particular evening that his teach Socrates had spent with his fellow Greeks, discussing various political topics. In the book, Plato outlines what Socrates’ thought justice was, and what a perfectly just city (the “city of speech”) would be like. One of the foundational principles in Plato’s just city is specialization. Each person does what they are best at, and don’t meddle in another’s affairs. By specializing, society is divided…

story Twelve Angry Men the jurors initially cast their ballots based upon prejudice, pressure, and manipulation. As juror number Eight begins to force these eleven men of the jury to reason we come closer to a verdict that more closely resembles justice. When being asked why he believes the boys story number Eight responds “I don’t know whether I believe it or not. Maybe I don’t”. this line of thinking is akin to Socrates whom is quoted saying “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know…

In the two plays Antigone and Trifles we see the characters in each approach laws and justice quite differently. Both plays center on a death, and in each there are two sides seeking justice after the death. I feel the plays present one group of characters who seek lawful justice and an opposing set of characters that want justice based on their opinion. In the first play, Trifles, a man has been murdered by strangulation and the primary suspect is his wife. The person who found and reported…

minorities at a much rate than whites. Even though the law was not written to target minorities, the fact that it is used much more often to justify killings of minorities shows that it is unjust. In our study of incarceration rates and the criminal justice system we learned that this law is not alone in its disproportionate effects on minorities and people of low economic status. Other examples of this are: “war on drugs,” and “the three strikes rule.” One part of the movie that gave me hope…

In Republic, Plato sets out to tackle the topic of justice—the definition of it itself and how it manifests in every day life. In Book II of Republic, Socrates says that in order to understand justice in a single person, he will try to examine justice in a whole city. Though it seems unusual, his arguments—which precede Book II and carry him through to Book IV—are strengthened enough that one can conclude he is in fact, correct to understand Justice in this way. At the beginning of Book II,…

question of justice in any situation concerning warfare is a difficult one to address, as many people hold opposing views on the righteousness of war itself. In the Aeneid, Virgil proposes a new question for readers to consider as he allows the main character, Aeneas, to undergo a change in mentality throughout the epic. The reader is forced to decide whether the killing of an opponent is deemed as just or unjust. Although many scholars have proposed differing definitions of justice, Plato…

There comes a time in everyone 's life where they have been wronged by another person. Whether it was someone stealing another your lunch out of the company fridge or finding out your lover has been carrying out an affair behind there back, it is human nature to want to seek revenge. However, taking the highroad and turning the other cheek is the moral thing to do. What if someone killed your only child would that change anything on the matter? In the short story titled “Killings”, author Andre…