© Kamla-Raj 2011 J Soc Sci‚ 29(2): 183-192 (2011) The Nature of Justice Uwaezuoke Precious Obioha Department of Philosophy‚ Faculty of Arts‚ Olabisi Onabanjo University‚ P.M.B. 2002‚ Ago-Iwoye‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria Telephone: +234-803-3950-443‚ E-mail: unclepees@yahoo.com KEYWORDS Rights. Distributive. Equality. Fairness. Difference Principle. Commutative ABSTRACT Since the Renaissance period in history initiated the act of free thinking and independent thought‚ there have existed and still
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“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice” (Ford‚ Harrison). Justice is very essential to restore a fair and supportive society. I am a staunch advocate of the fact that the societies where injustice prevails‚ they suffer badly and their future’s end in mere darkness. This is not a fact but your opinion. Justice can be interpreted as receiving what is deserved‚ whereas mercy means receiving what is not deserved. Although these two qualities seem to share a completely different
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Justice in Silas Marner ‘At the end of Silas Marner‚ there is a feeling that justice has been done: that the bad have been punished and the good rewarded.’ To what extent is this statement true? For centuries‚ the definition of justice has been disputed over by wise men of all countries. Through the works of Plato‚ the views of Socrates are recorded for all to read and reflect upon. He believed that justice was good‚ and the good could only be attained through self-knowledge. In the Republic‚ Socrates
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Definition of Justice In Book I of Plato ’s The Republic a definition of justice begins to develop in Socrates ’ conversations with Cephalus‚ Polemarchus and Thrasymachus. Through these conversations we‚ as readers‚ come closer to a definition of justice.Three definitions of justice are presented: argued by Cephalus and Polemarchus‚ justice is speaking the truth and paying ones debts; Thrasymachus insists that justice is the advantage of the stronger; Socrates suggests that justice is a craft
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In Plato’s Republic he defines justice as “doing one’s own work and not meddling with what is not one’s own” (Plato 139‚ 433b). This definition begs the question what is one’s own work? Plato states that one’s own work is the work that one’s nature is best suited for‚ as each person is born with a different nature (Plato 101‚ 370b). To come to this definition Plato compares justice within the human soul to justice within a city. If Plato can find justice within the city and prove that the individual
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In The Republic‚ Plato wrote a dialog between Socrates and his friends about the meaning of justice. They came into four definitions of justice‚ returning debts‚ helping friends‚ a system that benefits the strong‚ and a virtue that feels food. When asked about the meaning of justice‚ Cephalus believed that justice was the repayment of debt. Justice is completed when one‘s debt if fully returned. Socrates believed that the theory was flawed and may deliver disastrous result if applied in every situations
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Prospero’s Illusion of Justice Justice means conformity to moral rightness in action or attitude; righteousness and in the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare tells a fairly straight forward story involving an unjust act; he was banished by his brother Antonio‚ he is on a quest to re-establish justice by restoring himself to power. However‚ Prospero’s idea of justice seems extremely one-sided and mainly involves what is good for him; the idea represents the view of one character that controls
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this causes him to push examples without fully examining all the areas of weakness in his arguments‚ which leads to his failure. Justice is usually linked with people who are just‚ but by disconnecting them Thrasymachus is able to form an argument that examines justice with a darker connotation. Socrates holds more hopeful associations and supports the benefits of justice consistently through his argument. With his skill and strategy‚
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The theory of justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls. According to Gomez‚ philosopher John Rawls who lived between 1921- 2002‚ argued the notion of social justice as fairness in his book "A Theory of Justice." He used foundations of utilitarian and Kantian philosophy to create a possible technique to estimate the ethics of social and political institutions. The principles of justice theories was Rawls ’s theory and it is dependent on two important and central principles
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In the excerpts of Plato’s‚ The Republic a crucial concept that became presented was the concept of justice. While carrying a conversation with Socrates‚ Polemarchus‚ Thrasymachus and Glaucon‚ each presented polarizing beliefs on justice. Though Socrates badgered‚ refuted‚ and worked to find fallacies within their ideas‚ the one that fits our current society is that of Glaucon. His position on justice can be summarized with a quote saying‚ “People love it‚ not because it is a good thing‚ but because
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