Justice as Fairness

I Introduction. This paper provides critical and logical answer of why a lawyer “with a conscience” should refuse to act for a client whom he or she judges to be morally unworthy with supporting applied legal ethics approaches. There are four parts to this paper. Part I briefly introduces what the paper is about. Part II will critically analyse why the lawyer should accept to represent for a client if the client judges to be morally unworthy and how the applied ethics theory and approaches used…

work, but rather took a few concepts and applied them to successfully live a complete life. He believed that if you were a man of truth and justice, you were saved from all ruins, sin, and destruction. In addition, he claimed that just brought self-satisfaction of good moral character in which you acknowledged the idea of limited truth. Plato was so high on justice and truth he said, “Unjust things are worse than killing.” (Apology 30d) Rather than arguing in which killing another human being is…

The concept of ‘justice’ is associated with ‘fairness’ but is it always fair? That’s a question that has been contemplated throughout society in varying forms. Thousands of poems, songs, films and books have been published across the globe exploring this notion. Two prominent texts that deeply explore the ocean that is the concept of justice are Frank Darabont’s film interpretation of Stephen King’s novella “Rita Hemsworth and The Shawshank Redemption” and the poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”…

Justice is defined as the attainment of what is just, especially that which is fair, moral, right, merited, or in accordance with law. Although justice is commonly affiliated with the punishment of one who has broken the law, that is not always the case. There are some cases in which the convicted criminal is also a victim, which causes normal areas of black and white to fade to grey. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” written by Susan Glaspell, this grey area is what results in the main conflict for Mrs…

In Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus and Socrates fall on opposite sides of the debate over whether leading a life of justice or injustice results in happiness. Thrasymachus argues justice in and of itself has no intrinsic value, but it is the appearance of justice that benefits the individual. Socrates, on the other hand, insists appearance alone is not enough but being truly just leads to an inner life of peace and balance. The unjust person experiences a turbulent internal existence, which leads…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remain as one of the most prominent figures of United States history for addressing issues of social justice plaguing our society on a national scale. Dr. King’s impact in the Civil Rights Movement reappears each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and during Black History month. American culture remembers Dr. King solely for few significant moments in his life, such as his “I have a dream speech” and March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is viewed from a…

individualism view, justice view, and moral rights view when having an ethical dilemma. If she would have applied these philosophical views she could have made the correct informed…

person interprets these relationships differently. In Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, he explains the importance of civic relationships and how all of the relationships are closely integrated with each other. Happiness, the virtues, deliberation, justice and friendship are the significant civic relationships that Aristotle mentions in his novel. The Greek philosopher defines happiness and the route to achieve complete happiness and pleasure, which is through civic relationships. Throughout each…

According to Braveman & Guskin (2003: 254), the term equity is considered to be “social justice and fairness”. This describes equity as a term which is largely associated with principles which are rooted in distributive justice, as described by Braveman & Guskin (2003). In other words “equity” can be referred to as the lack of inconsistencies in health, as stated by Braveman & Guskin (2003). However, it is also noted that individuals from many different backgrounds may depict social injustices…

Barry recognizes the relevance of the moral virtues to the challenge of whistle-blowing in agency settings: Truthfulness, non-injury, and fairness are the ordinary categories of obligations that employees have to third parties. Before deciding to blow the whistle, social workers must carefully consider the severity of the harm and misconduct involved and the quality of the evidence of wrongdoing…