Social justice

This became particularly noticeable during a conversation about birth control during our Reproductive Justice discussion. Two of my peers who identify as Catholic women came to the conclusion that even if they did not believe in using birth control for themselves they have no reason or right to infringe upon that decision for other women. This exemplifies the concept of “Moral Justice” in that they are recognizing that there are complexities and ambiguities to this problem, but there is an…

John Rawls was an American political rationalist in the liberal convention. His hypothesis of equity as reasonableness imagines a general public of free residents holding measure up to essential rights participating inside a populist monetary framework. His record of political radicalism addresses the true blue utilization of political power in a popular government, intending to show how persevering solidarity might be accomplished in spite of the differing qualities of perspectives that free…

wise men, known as the philosophers, hold the highest position in the government. If he gave up this assumption that certain people are intrinsically unfit to occupy certain political social positions, he wouldn’t make this claim. He would instead create a society where everyone’s voice is heard no matter which social status they come from. A society that hears the voices of all the people and doesn’t underestimate their ideas. Also, he would allow the average citizen to be part of the…

actually being stated, as in the form of an oath of loyalty towards the state. This is an idea that Socrates alludes to throughout the dialogue but is most prominent towards the end of the dialogue with the Agreement argument as a kind of Social Contract. This Social Contract…

In our social justice class, we have learned many lessons that can help us make daily life and society as a whole better. We have learned how to handle real life situations and how some groups are more advantaged than other groups. For this reason, we were assigned to write how we would handle some hypothetical problems and what we learned from our service learning. Doing these problems will show what I have gotten out of the class and what I will bring with me to help the world become a better…

With philosophers as rulers of a society they will look for just laws that are right and true. Also, he introduced the idea that women should be equal to men. Women were given the opportunity to be “philosopher queens and could have the same social roles as men. He has this idea because he believes that women and men have the same nature in respect to behaving as guardians of the state, although one may be weaker than the other. So women are given the same educational opportunities as men in…

Association Between Individual Patient Care Focus and Social Justice The American Nurses Association (ANA) 2001 Code of Ethics for Nurses emphasizes nursing care based on an individual nurse-patient relationship with limited focus on social justice and reform (Bekemeier, & Butterfield, 2015). This direct attention of individual needs and rights is the center focus in today’s healthcare system, especially in a hospital setting. Bekemeier and Butterfield (2015) states that this shift to…

According to JL Guest, a conservative writer from the Western Journalism news company, we are a nation of laws where everyone is treated fairly and equally. Guest states that with a nation of laws, there is a greater balance of human nature, avoidance of government atrocities, and no corrupt officials that could use the imbalance of laws as a weapon to take over people’s basic rights and liberties. On the other hand, Skwirk, an online interactive learning portal, strongly puts in confidence that…

by existing in association with other individuals one acquires significance. Moreover, each person is destined to be given a defined function which he or she should perform for the community to strive, ensuring that justice, as seen by the philosopher, is attained. Even though social mobility within the bounds of his state is limited, exceptions are possible if one demonstrates an extraordinary potential for intellectual or physical development or, on the contrary, inability to retain the higher…

Social Justice Reflection #2 As I think more deeply about the student populations I serve as part of my fellowship, one of the things I have started to wonder more about is how student affinity groups may share different characteristics from the general student body. While I have been quick to assume that the general student body at Merrimack tends to come from more affluent backgrounds, I am starting to find that the same idea cannot be applied to commuter students and graduate students in…