essentially answer one question‚ what is justice? This question serves as a basis into the dialogues encountered in the literary work. Plato aims to answer this philosophical question through an analysis developed by Socrates; a Greek philosopher‚ prestigiously acclaimed‚ due to his analysis of such subjective thoughts. Justice can be classified in three subdivisions which include retributive justice‚ procedural justice‚ and social justice. Retributive justice can be best explained along the principle
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What are the differences between absolute advantage and comparative advantage? Absolute advantage and comparative advantage are two basic concepts to international trade and perhaps two most important concepts in international trade theory. Under absolute advantage‚ one country can produce more output per unit of productive input than another. With comparative advantage‚ if one country has an absolute (dis)advantage in every type of output‚ the other might benefit from specializing in and exporting
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "One man’s justice is another’s injustice." This statement quite adequately describes the relation between definitions of justice presented by Polemarchus and Thrasymachus in Book I of the Republic. Polemarchus initially asserts that justice is "to give to each what is owed" (Republic 331d)‚ a definition he picked up from Simonides. Then‚ through the unrelenting questioning of Socrates‚ Polemarchus’ definition evolves into "doing good to friends and harm to enemies"
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What is the difference between competitive advantage and comparative advantage? Answer: An advantage that a firm has over its competitors‚ that differentiates the Product or services offered by the firm and allows the firm to reduce it’s Cost or generate Higher Revenue or Margin is known as Competitive Advantage. A competitive advantage is something that a consumer views in a product or service as having higher value than the other competitors of the firm in the industry. It is an expertise that
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An experiment is a study in which the researcher manipulates the level of some independent variable and then measures the outcome. Experiments are powerful techniques for evaluating cause-and-effect relationships. Many researchers consider experiments the "gold standard" against which all other research designs should be judged. Experiments are conducted both in the laboratory and in real life situations. Types of Experimental Design There are two basic types of research design: True experiments
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1. Describe Goffman’s “moral career of the mental patient” through its three phases. How is the patient’s self-identity thus gradually redefined in the context of the hospital as a total institution. The three phases of the mental patient according to Erving Goffman to me was very intriguing. The first phase is the prepatient phase this refers to the period in which the patient is admitted into the hospital this could lead to the next phase which is known as the‚ Inpatient phase which is the period
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Eddie Mabo is one of the most famous and significant Australian Aboriginals. He is famous for campaigning for Indigenous land rights. He was born on the 29th of June‚ 1946‚ on Murray Island‚ in the Torres Strait. Eddie Mabo married Bonita Newhow and together they had ten children. In 1982 Eddie Mabo and four other Torres Strait Islanders initiated action against the Australian Authorities calming ownership of their land on Murray Island. Eddie Mabo was exiled from Murray Island when he was sixteen
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The Triangle of Justice Ethically lacking corporate decisions since the industrial revolution have snowballing repercussions onto the populations of the world. As technology grows and economics of scale strengthen‚ the responsibility also grows with both the breadth and depth of the surrounding populations. The breadth and depth refers to the three point demands of sustainability. These three demands of a business are economic‚ social‚ and environmental. Due to the straightforward economic necessities
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Plato’s interpretation of justice as seen in The Republic’ is a vastly different one when compared to what we and even the philosophers of his own time are accustomed to. Plato would say justice is the act of carrying out one’s duties as he is fitted with. Moreover‚ if one’s duties require one to lie or commit something else that is not traditionally viewed along with justice; that too is considered just by Plato’s accounts in The Republic.’ I believe Plato’s account of justice‚ and his likely defense
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Socrates and Aristotle both have contrasting views of the concept of justice which serves to influence their notions of an ideal constitution. The abstract‚ speculative ideas of Socrates will be compared and contrasted with the practical‚ sensory ones of Aristotle in matters concerning justice and politics. Both Aristotle and Socrates disagree with regards to the definition of justice and what qualities are attributed to a just person. According to Aristotle‚ a just person must follow the law
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