Distributive justice

One’s values and beliefs about the world we live in are constructed through real life encounters, as well as teachings that they may have experienced though their lives. My personal paradigm is based around my ethical view on life. I adopted a consequentialist view which is also a very controversial because it brings the idea that you could make immoral decisions without consequence, as long as the outcome had benefitted the most people or had the best outcome. For me in most cases, making…

Socrates breaks apart the idea of justice and solidifies his ideas in order to fully grasp all aspects of it. Socrates is dedicated to fully develop the notion of justice, as he wants to discover the truth about what is right and wrong while abolishing the ideas of past just governments. Socrates wants to prove that justice is something necessary and desired because it is essential and not just a thought that is needed. In doing so Socrates concludes that justice occurs when appetite and courage…

I also speak, there’s a saying “Laws overpower justice.” This quote was inspired by what Cicero had said, “The more laws, the less justice.” I believe that justice is important because justice is the truth, and I always believe in standing for the truth. Laws are great, but they both differ whereas laws are set by man to help govern ourselves. Another synonym for justice would be the ‘truth,’ where it is very hard to find I this world because justice is blinded by laws, where humans don’t really…

Henry Liang I believe Socrates’ criticism of Thrasymachus’ view was correct in the way that leaders or rulers do not use their subjects to be advantageous. Socrates drew many different analogies to refute Thrasymachus’ views on political leaders, which he spoke of the crafts of doctors and a ship’s captain. Socrates eventually comes to the conclusion that, “No kind of knowledge seeks or orders what is advantageous to itself, then, but what advantageous to the weaker, which is subject to it”…

objections Socrates raises to K2 are broken up into three sub-arguments (the puzzle, the wax block, the aviary), and the final “nail in the coffin” is the jury argument. For the sake of time, I will focus primarily on the final jury argument provided by Socrates, but not without first briefly summarizing the arguments of false judgment found in the different objections. For it is at the end of this passage where Socrates gives us the direct refutation of K2. The Puzzle, Wax Block, and Aviary…

equality. While Anderson calls for the focus to be brought back to integration, she fails to fully acknowledge the importance of recognition as an effective means of achieving social equality. Integration, according to Anderson, is “an imperative of justice” and “a positive good.” She is brought to this conclusion after determining that “if segregation is a fundamental cause…

Foucault's Discipline and Punish is a book based on the history of the penal system. Foucault uses this book to breakdown the process of punishment, what all it contain, and how power can affect punishment. He starts this book off by discussing the issues before the eighteenth century. When the issues were prominent, public execution and corporal punishment was the most commonly used forms of punishments. During this time period punishments were viewed as a ceremonial type of ordeal that…

The idea behind ruling on the bases of superior wisdom is something that sounds very appealing in nature. Especially when the idea revolves around giving power only to those that are willing to be open minded and pursue justice. However, there are problems that co-exist with this idea primarily because there is no division between power. This in return creates only one central power that can’t be properly challenged by the people, which indirectly oppresses them. That is why I completely…

Why does the argument that “anything that is legal is ethical” is insufficient? The argument that ‘anything that is legal is ethical’ is insufficient and complicated topic to discuss, because it contradict the majority of legal systems around the globe. However, it is important to point out that laws cannot satisfy every member of the population, and in order to have a healthy balance within our communities, the government need to find codes of conduct and procedures that benefit most people…

In the article Rough Justice by Alejandro Reyes “No matter how harsh your punishments, you’re not going to get an orderly society unless the culture is in favor of order.” It is important for people to take a stand on issues of justice in society. Three reasons it is important for people to stand on issues of justice in society is that people should stand up to change things that are wrong and turn them right, people represent others who can’t represent themselves, and people should be treated…