Restorative justice

1. Morgenthau proposes 6 principles of realism: (1) politics are governed by roots in human nature; (2) individual interest is defined in terms of power; (3) a politician is incapable of sacrificing all self-interest for public interest; (4) there is no place for morals in state action, (5) no country has a set of supreme morals compared to another; and (6) the political sphere is governed by its own laws and concerns, all others are subordinate. 2. Thucydides’ Melian dialogue is unchecked…

Imagine what could happen in Athens if we adopted this state of awareness. On a similar point, the contradictory “eye for an eye” ideal seen in Polemarchus’s justice is not good for Athens or Greece as a whole. In the ancient stories of the gods, the goddess Aphrodite blessed the Trojans during our conflict with them just because their prince once awarded her in a beauty contest. Socrates is right to find these…

In Plato’s Republic Book 2, Socrates says justice belongs in the category, “which the man who is going to be blessed should like both for itself and for what comes out of it,” (Plato, Republic 2, 358a). This means the man who is acting justly does so because he wants to, not because he has to, and he knows he will get results from doing justice. Based on this notion, justice is a desired good. If everyone acts justly, then no one has to experience injustice outcomes. As Glaucon tries to defend…

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…

I do agree with Michael Sandel that using his three ideas for determining justice or injustice for social issues is valuable. Maximizing welfare, respecting freedom and promoting virtue will contribute to deciding whether or not that a social issue would be under the notion of justice or injustice. The Dakota pipeline is a controversial topic in the news today. I believe that the Dakota pipeline goes against all three of Michael Sandel’s ideas and is injustice. The Dakota pipeline is not…

If ancient Athenian society followed the conception of justice idolized by Rawls, would Socrates find himself in the predicament that he faced in Crito? The answer to that question, is absolutely not, because of how those principles are set. The first principle of Rawls states “Each person is to have an equal right . . . similar liberty for others.” This principle dealt with people’s liberty. These liberties were entitled to everyone and always remained. He believed basic liberties can be…

By equating justice with lawfulness Aristotle does not take into account the possibility of a law being unjust. It is not hard to come to the conclusion that some laws can be inherently unjust and through following them an evil is committed upon another. This contradiction is evident in Aristotle’s logic when he says, “evidently all lawful acts are in a sense just acts; for the acts laid down by the legislative art are lawful, and each of these, we say, is just” (6). He does not take into…

freedom, and anything that abridges those rights is unjust. He believes that the essence of freedom involves his concept of entitlement theory (Nozick 151). He believes that: 1. A person who acquires a holding in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition is entitled…

pollution and urban decay. This relationship between social and environmental aspects has been termed environmental racism, and beginning in the mid to late 20th century the Environmental Justice Movement grew to combat the politically normalized existence of environmental racism (Cole). The Environmental Justice Movement began as a grassroots environmental movement that faced many obstacles stemming from deeply rooted social constructs regarding race, and social class. The social standing of…

reading was chapter 5, it was about how justice and Utility connect in their own concepts. Mills begins this reading by discussing the history of the acceptance of utility. He believes that utility doesn't allow the theory of justice. Throughout the reading, Mill tried to find out if justice or injustice actions are something in which it would be intrinsic and distinct. While he examined that it would be necessary it is necessary for the intent of justice. Continuing throughout the rest of…