Justice as Fairness

that seem to exceed the good outcomes of the play. The world of King Lear is filled with brutal cruelty. Shakespeare suggests that there is no justice in King Lear through his portrayals of characters’ suffering, the lack of response to the character’s prayers, and King Lear’s fake trial. The suffering of different characters shows that there is no justice in King Lear. The first sign of injustice seen in the play is Cordelia’s disownment (1.1.110-113). Here it is seen that her father disowns…

necessarily governed in the way that is best and freest from faction …” (Republic 520c, p. 199) Why is it best for the people who least want to rule to do so? For whom is it best and why? What does this suggest about the possibility of achieving perfect justice in the city? The question of the reluctance of the governors in Plato’s Republic can also be framed as a question on the return of the philosophers to the cave, in the Allegory of the Cave, and it has long been a subject of Plato’s…

In Socrates argument of, “From these premises I proceed to argue the question whether I ought or ought not to try to escape without the consent of the Athenians: and if I am clearly right in escaping, then I will make the attempt; but if not, I will abstain.” (Plato, B.) Based on what was discussed within chapter one, the state cannot exist if law is not obeyed. By that logic he is not in violation of any law which in turn makes it unsound for him to be imprisoned. Making his attempt at escape…

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…