Retributive justice

proximity of their environment, which creates pollution and an unhealthy physical and mental state over higher income communities. Environmental justice, in turn, is the movement that sprouted due to the unjust concept of environmental racism. Environmental racism is apparent in regions where Indigenous peoples reside and even though an environmental justice movement have addressed the issues concerning the affects of environmental racism, further steps must be taken to diminish such acts.…

become unjust for receiving benefits while having a good reputation of being justice (Plato, Republic book 2, p53). Both Socrates and Glaucon agrees that justice is something “good”, which is good in itself, or it can bring good as a consequence or both. But what if justice itself is not good and will not bring anything good alone with them? Ring of Gyges is an extended expression of Thrasymachus’s famous claim: “Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger” (Plato, Republic book 1, p39). The…

virtue of self-defence. Hence, the sovereign power is limited because he is not the final arbiter in the decision-making of the subject. Second, according to Hobbes, the right of self-defence does not justify the emergence of rebellions. In fact, Justice is the keeping of covenant which renders all insurgencies, unjust and illegitimate. However, even though the initiation is prohibited, the right of self-defence permits the perpetuation of rebel activity in the commonwealth. Subjects that have…

According to Immanuel Kant philosophy of ethical formalism the only thing that is good is a "good will". Even if the end of an individual 's action is bad, it still would be considered a moral action along as the individual enter the action with good will. Secondly Kant strongly believed that doing "one 's duty" will be bestow with moral worth. Hypothetical imperatives regard to if one wants to completed a certain task then one needs to do a certain action or steps to complete it. Also…

Socrates does not adequately refute the claim that justice means to tell the truth and not steal, or as Cephalus puts it, “Not cheating someone even unintentionally, not lying to him, [b] not owing a sacrifice to some god or money to a person”. Socrates replies by giving the following counter example, “if a man borrows weapons from a sane friend, and if he goes mad and asks for them back, the friend should not return them, and would not be just if he did. Nor should anyone be willing to tell the…

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…

Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of equality and justice in his letter to the people of Birmingham, Alabama. King writes, from his jail cell, about the injustice he has seen and he offers ways of fixing it. His plans starts with acquiring an understanding of the difference between a just and unjust law and how to react to them. Then his plan requires taking action to abide by and fight for these just laws. The final…

compelling account for the paradox that is defining law. The following arguemnts will be premised upon the concepts of an unjust law still technically existing as law and the weaknesses that Socrates identifies for law as social order and law as justice or right as less subjective and more likely to hold true when the philosophy is applied to real situations. II. STATE LAW Laws can be good or bad – they cannot retroactively be deemed unfit to be law in the past, only in the present by the…

arguments will be premised upon the concepts of unjust laws technically remaining law, despite the apparent lack of justice, and the weaknesses that Socrates identifies in law as social order and law as justice or right being more likely to persist when they are practically applied. II. STATE LAW First of all, though it is reasonable to expect that “law inherently contains an element of justice or right,” this does not mean that the element is a necessity for law to exist. A law being…

explains how they relate to being a good leader. One of these virtues is justice. Aristotle argues that justice is the foundation upon which all other virtues are built. Therefore, is important for leaders to understand the multiple facets of justice: universal, distributive, and criminal. The first level of justice is universal justice. Universal justice is important for leaders to understand because…