Justice as Fairness

The Australian Consumer Law (ACL), common law and equity play essential roles in enforcing the appropriate standards of conduct in contractual dealings in Australia. The ACL is consumer protection legislation that sets the appropriate standard of conduct required in commercial dealings of trade or commerce. Common law and equity ensure appropriate standards are adhered to in all transactions not covered by this legislation. Common law is also important in interpreting some of the broader…

Life Server A financially strained Valerie, learns she will be blocked from classes. She reads an email, “Urgent: Please pay your tuition, in order to continue your education.” This is Valerie’s last semester of law school. She visits Academic Advising asking, “Would it be terribly bad if I postponed one semester?” Her advisor responds, “Fill out this form and we will see you upon return.” Valerie despises everything; as she can’t ask her struggling parents for help. Valerie, now needs a job.…

The story of Gyges revolves around a shepherd who came across a magical ring. This ring gave the beholder the power to become invisible to others around them. After understanding the capabilities and potentials the ring may bring, the shepherd Gyge, wasted no opportunity to benefit himself and seek the kingdom. He achieved this by seducing the queen, and conspired against the king that led to him taking the kingdom. He was given an opportunity to potentially do good deeds with the ring and help…

does the word “fair” accomplish? Gaius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar tries to reason with the concept and it gets him a civil war. In both Julius Caesar and modern society, the concept of “fairness” is a mental block from success. In Shakespeare’s play, Cassius uses fairness to persuade Brutus to join the conspirators. He tries to justify his thoughts to Brutus: “I was born free as Caesar, so were you; we both have fed as well, and we both endure the winter’s cold as well as…

The author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, is clever because his introduction did its job well in informing readers that the judicial system in America needs to be reformed. He did this by using variety of different persuasive writing tools. Stevenson used three of the many persuasive tools; these tools were pathos, ethos, and logos. These were his secret to convincing the readers to be on his side of the argument. The use of pathos was presented through a story of a prisoner who was on death…

In the book Justice, by Michael Sandel, he explained that Aristotle’s moral theoryrevolves around these two statements, “Justice is teleological. Defining rights requires us tofigure out the telos (the purpose, end, or essential nature) of the social practice in question.Justice is honorific. To reason about the telos of a practice-or to argue about it- is, at least in part,to reason or argue about what virtues it should honor and reward.” Sandel describes acheerleader named Callie that had…

the nature of man, justice, the soul and a just society. The city of Athens was on the verge of ruin after Socrates trial and execution. Plato considers justice to be interconnected with goodness of an individual and a state, thus being the best way for survival. This paper will discuss justice and injustice as exemplified in Plato’s description of the fall of the state and the individual. The conversation begins with Glaucon and Adeimantus reopening the belief that justice has its valid…

is assumed valid, despite there were opposite voices from scholars such as N. D. Smith. Instead, the essay argues the analogy is not a strong one as it has flawed consistency throughout the book. It does not show evident answer to the question of justice. Barker described it as a 'psychological analogy ' . The key element in the analogy is that both a soul and a state should contain three parts, and they function differently. Plato believed that state behaviours are completely a reflection of…

The prompt for King’s letter goal is to compare and contrast Letter from a Birmingham Jail and Handbook of Epictetus. One section of King’s letter dealt with the issue of just and unjust laws and how direct action would effect the outcome. King and Epictetus had two different ways of dealing with unjust laws and the effect of them on an individual person. Their thoughts are similar but not similar enough that one could come to the conclusion that they would both agree. Even though they would not…

Glaucon in his speech articulates his argument by telling a narrative about one of his ancestors, Gyges of Lydia. The narrative opens with a fierce storm which triggers a violent earthquake that rips the land into two parts forming a chasm. This massive chasm was formed right where Gyges was tending to his sheep. Moved with astonishment, he ventured down into the chasm. There, there were all types of magical things, but one unique object in particular caught the attention of Gyges. There was a…