William Wayne Justice

What if survival meant killing and eating the flesh of one 's own camrade? Given the choice between starvation and cannibalism, how would one make a cogent decision? That is exactly what occurred in Professor Lon L. Fuller 's fictional, legal case titled, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers." The investigation explores the circumstances involving the death of a cave-explorer, Roger Whitmore. In summary, five cave-explorers were trapped in a cave after being blocked by a landslide. Fortunately…

Aristotle Book II and Book V It is Aristotle’s claim that justice is the greatest of the moral virtues. To be just one has to perform acts not only for one’s own good but for the good of others (whether that is the government, your neighbor or another individual). Attaining a character of justice only comes by habit and the activities one performs. Injustice can be differentiated from justice as: acts performed to the detriment of oneself and others, and composes the entirety of vice.…

Argument paper, Plato contemplates whether or not the distribution of wealth has an effect on justice in a given society. In Plato’s Republic, Plato gives an account of civic justice that justifies the constraints on the distribution of wealth. His student, Socrates, forms a hypothetical, utopian city called the kallipolis in order to lay out the criteria for justice within a city. In order to obtain justice in the kallipolis, everyone is given a duty assigned by the education system for…

Cephalus defines justice as the following: justice is telling truth and paying debts. However, Socrates refutes Cephalus’s definition by claiming that there are situations when it is not just to tell the truth and pay the debts. Sometimes, contracts are bad though it starts out good. For example, it is not just to return weapon or entrust care to a friend who is insane. Besides Cephalus’s definition of justice, Thrasymachus also provides his definition of justice. First, justice is nothing but…

Republic, Socrates seeks to discover what justice is and why it is necessary for one to be just. Socrates asks Cephalus and his son Polemarchus their thoughts on his inquiry, finding error and contradiction in each of their responses. However, their responses to Socrates’ question on justice only acts as a preface to the sophist, Thrasymachus’ view on what justice is and why it is imperative for the human person to be just. Thrasymachus tells Socrates that justice benefits the stronger, or…

Marcus Newell Beech-Nut Case Study Professor Finnerty 13 October 2015 Beech Nut Discussion Questions 1. In my opinion, LiCari did not overreact. I believe this because it is a felony to falsely label a product, which Beech Nut did with advertise on their products. This product was given to babies, it was second leading provider of baby products, which means mothers trusted this product for their small children. When I have my own children I want nothing but the best for them and Beech Nut…

In this essay, I will show that Derek Parfit is wrong to think that without perfectionism we cannot avoid the repugnant conclusion. My first step in defending this thesis will be to review Parfit’s argument on the repugnant conclusion and the way perfectionism helps us avoid it. I will then try to undermine his view by showing it supports implausible claims. For example, the premise of Parfit’s argument is that perfectionism does provide a full means of avoiding the repugnant conclusion. However…

cares deeply about the idea of justice. However, he and his company cannot seem to agree on a proper definition of the word. They do, however, agree on various examples of what is not just. One such example is Socrates’ statement that “human beings who have been harmed necessarily become more unjust.” However, this statement implies that the only way to be just is to do what is best for society as a whole, rather than accounting for each individual’s idea of justice. This Socratic statement…

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.” - Albert Einstein. Making ethical choices should just be common sense within society. We expect everybody to do the right thing, we want everybody to do the right thing. But what happens when one does something unethical? What happens to them? What happens to the people around them? It never turns out well, they end up destroying everything around…

outside of the state, as only 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,…