Obstruction of justice

The moral justification for legal punishment finds itself in philosophy through two theories that contrast each other in their complex and thought-provoking ideas: the retributivist theory of punishment (RTP) and the utilitarian theory of punishment (UTP). The RTP focuses on the individual and the crime to justify its proportional punishment. On the other hand, the UTP suggests that maximizing happiness in society is the main goal. The importance of defining legal punishment from just punishment…

bring a more just society. People find their sense of justice through numerous means. Many people seek their sense of justice through religious texts. The Old and New Testaments are examples of scriptures that demonstrate the meaning of what justice signifies. These texts illustrate God’s love for humanity and how God saves humans from harm. Reading both scriptures together can aid humans in attaining a deeper understanding of the basis of justice in biblical texts. In the Old Testament, it…

Socrates’s view of Justice After the debate about justice between Socrates and Thrasymachus, Glaucon plays a devil’s advocate and argues with Socrates about justice. Glaucon starts out his argument by stating, “we can see most clearly that those who practice justice do it unwillingly and because they lack the power to do injustice” . He then goes on to say that people do just acts out of fear and weakness and are afraid of punishments for injustice. At the end of Book IV, Glaucon changes…

I believe that the reason most decisions about the dilemma in our scenario were solved without too much hassle can be attributed to shared values. The AASW Code of Ethics lists respect for persons, social justice and professional integrity as the core values of social work (AASW, 2010). These values were reflected by all members in our group interactions, this was evidently clear when there were issues with one member taking over conversation and cutting other…

To torture or not to torture, that is the question. Should we torture a prisoner who does some heinous crime, or should we not torture and find some other means to get the information we need, or as punishment for the crime. This is a pertinent question, especially with the current course cases attempting to forbid execution, on the grounds that it is torture. When one begins to consider this question philosophically, four views come to mind, which are: utilitarianism, Christian-principle based…

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…

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…

What is justice? What is right? What is wrong? Is there even a difference? Plato explores these question is his Republic. He explores it through his mentor, Socrates; he presents “elaborate theories, sometimes expressed by Socrates, who is by far the most common main character,” says Alexander Nehamas, in his book Virtues of Authenticity (Nehamas). In Republic, Socrates begins conversing with Polermarchus, Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus, and Adeimantus. The question arises “What is justice?”…

As the Minister of Justice, it is important to remember that justice is served to the right people and in this case it is the people who have been threatened by The Purple Shirts and have lost someone due to their absurd rules. There is a strong amount of people who want to punish these Grudge Informers thus, it is important that we provide them justice through law. By using the court and laws as means to accomplish their murderous intentions, the Grudge Informers’ actions were certainly cruel…

A significance of the above is that legal justice is not absolute justice but is the kind of justice appropriate to the activity of doing law (Beever, Allan, 2004). Aristotle upholds that legal justice displays certain insufficiencies from the standpoint of absolute justice. One reason for this is that, “all law is universal, and there are some things about which it is not possible to pronounce rightly in…