I personally think that the death penalty is unjust. Murder is murder no matter who is doing it. So if someone kills someone‚ does that give the judicial system the right to kill someone? In my opinion no‚ because all in all‚ it is still down right murder. I think that that life in prison is torture enough especially when you have people who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. Does the legal system have authorization to take innocent lives? Being that this scale is unbalanced‚ I believe that
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people must voice their concerns and rebel against the government through grassroots movements and protests. Breaking laws that were created to protect the government and its citizens does not have to involve violence. Sometimes we have to break unjust laws that only benefit certain groups and burden others. For example‚ it is acceptable for women to commit illegal activities when the government takes away their right to an abortion‚ invades their medical files‚ and prevents doctors to
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Euthyphro – Plato Explain how the concept of holiness emerges in the dialogue and why it takes a prominent position in the conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro. “Euthyphro answers that there is no difference of opinion‚ either among gods or men‚ as to the propriety of punishing a murderer. Yes‚ rejoins Socrates‚ when they know him to be a murderer; but you are assuming the point at issue. If all the circumstances of the case are considered‚ are you able to show that
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Socrates Philosophy 201 5 November 2010 Socrates Born in 469 B.C.E.‚ Socrates lived his life way before his time. The practice of the era in which he lived was ones’ of single opinion. That is where the ruler told everyone how and what to think. What made Socrates stand out as a smart minded willful person was his strong opinions and his teachings to the youth to develop their own opinions and not fall in line with everyone else’s thinking. This was Socrates downfall. He was
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When analyzing Socrates as a person‚ I think it is apparent that there is much more to his personality than appears on the surface. Many people assume that his aims are pure‚ that he questions those around him solely in the pursuit of knowledge. I think that if his conversations are considered as a whole‚ strong arrogance shows through. Socrates often flatters the person he is questioning in order to initiate the debate and he continues to do this as the conversation progresses in order to
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Socrates and the Afterlife J Tarolli November 14‚ 2012 Introduction to Philosophy Brian Raftery Socrates was a man of very distinct descriptions. He believed that we all would meet in a place in the afterlife. We would follow a guide down our chosen path according to the life we lived. Socrates didn’t have a fear of death or the path he would travel in the afterlife. He had a very detailed idea of how the terrain would be. He envisioned in exquisite detail of the beauty of the afterlife
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Socrates: Guilty or Not? Socrates is one of the founders of Western philosophy. The dialogues‚ written by many of his students‚ such as Plato‚ represent a unique way of questioning how we should live our lives‚ and who do we aspire to become. He was a very intelligent man who was very concerned about ethics‚ being a good Athenian‚ and doing what is just. In Plato’s Apology the reader experiences all of Socrates characteristics as if they where sitting right there with
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clarifying the blatantly subjective nature of the term "Justice‚" it is easy to determine that the Count of Monte Cristo was unjust in his actions. He may have been acting out of a personal sense of justice‚ but was selfish and short-sighted enough to injure people on whom he did not intend to wreak revenge. His sense of justice‚ was not‚ contrary to what the term itself implied‚ just. The fates of‚ and events surrounding‚ Caderousse‚ Benedetto‚ Albert‚ and Danglars all support the charge that the Count
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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who is accredited as the main source of establishing the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy and logic. He is notably known for creating the Socratic method‚ Socratic irony and contributing to the field of ethics. Socrates was ahead of his time as he established an ethical system based on logos‚ human reason‚ rather than mythos‚ theological doctrine. This change from fables claiming divine warrant‚ to the pursuit of knowledge of central concepts and
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Some of Hammurabi’s codes were just but most of them were unjust. Hammurabi’s codes were too rough and unfair to people because son’s would get their hands cut off for things that could have been handled differently and better‚debts were not fair‚ and slaves were treated differently than free people. In document C‚ law number 195‚ it said " If a son has struck his father‚ his hands shall be cut off." This law was unjust because they should have no right to cut the son’s hands for hitting
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