Justice

Justice is something of importance to Socrates, considering the pedestal he puts it on. In the eyes of Socrates, justice is a virtue; one that’s good in its self. All the while, standing in the midst of opposition, Socrates remains firm. It is already apparent the power behind the consequences of justice. So much so, that it leads certain people, like Thrasymachus, to believe that justice’s one best and only attribute is indeed its consequences. Then there’s Glaucon and Attimentus, who bring up…

question the old gods and beliefs in the system of justice, while also encouraging others to think about the same, the leaders sought to eliminate the subject of philosophy from their city altogether. Plato, Socrates ' student, wrote The Republic as an apology to Socrates for the behavior of the Greek, while also aiming towards defending the ideas and philosophy of Socrates on Justice. The process through which Plato managed to explain how justice is a part of the human soul is explained as…

What is Justice? It sounds like a simple question to answer, but what about in the world we live in today. Many people in our society have their own distinctive explanation of what justice is. When most people think of justice, they think behavior, treatment, fair play, and equity. In many eyes, justice is seeing the villain pays for what they have done usually by some kind of punishment such as prison or the death penalty. Because justice is a hard word to define everyone has taking up there…

main question that the community asks is “when will justice be served?” Living in a time where the black community keeps getting shot by the police and no consequences occur, we have no choice but to question, what is justice? Similar to the modern society, the one Plato lived in confronted this same question of justice. In this paper I will attempt to explain the view that Plato places before us through Socrates in The Republic as to what is justice and does it “pay” better than injustice in…

tragedies affect innocent victims. In that realm, justice is an illusion rarely served throughout life. People who deserve consequences for their wrongdoings live carelessly and unaffected; generous and decent people experience unnecessary consequences. In short, life is unfair and justice doesn’t actually exist in our world. Thus bears the questions, is justice really served; what is the definition of justice; what are the ethics behind justice. Different philosophers and authors have argued…

conception of justice in the Republic. Plato behavior towards justice as a dominating virtue, a single human being or distinct from a group, class, or family, an interpretation that virtually every topic he would deem irreproachable, below the perception of justice. subsequent disapproving the standard speculation of justice bestowed disparately by Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Polymarchus, and Cephalus, Plato presents us his unique hypothesis of justice in relation to another, single, justice is…

pit of their stomachs the streets ring out in a symphony of cacophony. “Justice!” they cry, “Justice!” they plead, “Justice!” they scream. But just who’s justice are they asking for? Our society has so savagely depicted Justice that her sword now lies limp, her eyes are scolding- blindfold disregarded, and her scales have found an unfavorable neutral in which one is raised far above the other. Being told to have faith in justice if nothing else now means very little when what continues to…

love and justice as water and oil. Although when you mix the two, they still separate. One is denser than the other. Love is felt as an emotion towards something with affection or attraction while justice is claimed to be of peace or moral rightness, or punishment. In the film, “Dead Man Walking,” a man, Matt Ponceletes, is on death row for murdering two teenagers and the raping of the girl. Ponceletes mentioned on his final day, “figures, I’d have to die to find love.” Does this mean justice…

categorizing what kind of good is justice. When I was first asked the question "what is good about living a just life?" the first thought that came to my mind was that when an individual is living a just life he/she does not go to jail. Up until I started reading The Republic, the picture of justice that I had in my head was the one of a judge, court, police officers, etc. but after reading Plato's words, I realized that there is much more to justice. The portrait of justice I had in mind was…

appropriate question; at what point do inequalities of economic liberty and social justice become unjust? Three liberal approaches to justice attempt an answer. In his book Theory of Justice, John Rawls follows a high liberal tradition of thought, asserting that a distributive pattern of justice is most correct. On the other hand, in his book Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick argues for an emergent approach to justice, rooted in libertarian philosophy. Lastly, John Tomasi, in his book…