Hammurabi’s code is not just because of its family law. In law 195‚ it says “ if a son has struck his father‚ his hands shall be cut off(doc C). This is unfair because the son is not being given another chance or he could be defending himself from an abusive father. In law 49 it says “ If a married lady is caught with another man‚ they shall bind them and cast them into the water(Doc C).” If a woman is seen making a trade with a man and this is mistaken as them having an affair‚ they get punished
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The Code of Hammurabi was proclaimed by Babylonian King Hammurabi. These laws were made to better the Babylonian Society. Just like any other rule‚ if it was broken‚ there were to be consequences. Some consequences were hard‚ others were not as bad. These laws‚ unified the Empire‚ and also influenced more power on their ruler. They play a big role in history. The code dated back to 1754 BC‚ and it’s one of the oldest writings that was able to be deciphered in history. It’s also one of the
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The Code of Hammurabi Hammurabi was a ruthless leader who killed and hurt hundreds of people for their mistakes. Hammurabi was a powerful king in a small city state called Babylon which was the capital of the kingdom of Babylonia. Hammurabi took power in 1792 B.C. for 42 years and had brutal rules with lots of power. Hammurabi´s code is not just because the laws that he has made are too harsh‚and why should diffrent people get punished more than others‚ finally Hammurabi should not have that much
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Document Reaction Paper 1 18 June 2014 Code of Hammurabi An eye for and eye" might be a simple phrase but summarizes a king ’s code that organized one of the most civilized empire of it time. King Hammurabi‚ the ruler of Babylonia almost four millennia ago‚ was not the typical power hungry king that people might view him as today. Instead of writing detailed and very wordy laws like one might see today‚ confusing his people was the last motive of King Hammurabi. Though the phrase "an eye for an eye" might
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To stop physical attacks like bullying‚ the Hammurabi law‚ “If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician‚ his eye shall be knocked out.” would solve theft‚ bullying‚ and other crimes that involve physical assaults. The Hammurabi law‚ “If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician‚ his eye shall be knocked out.” would serve as a better law nowadays to stop bullying‚
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are punished for their crimes today. While the extremity of it all has decreased‚ the idea of crime and consequence has remained evident. A better understanding of the lives of men and women of Sargon and Mesopotamia can be understood when reading Hammurabi and Zhao’s instructions. Today‚ killing someone could result in a life in prison. In Hammurabi’s code that was automatic death. Things like feminism did not exist then because women were meant to honor the men in their life according to Zhao. While
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Psych 412 Penn State Dr. Love When i was in high school‚ I skipped school one day in order to go to my boyfriends house (whom my parents didn’t know about because they didn’t approve of me dating anyone)‚ and i faked a note and called them to tell them i was sick from my parents phone pretending to be my own mother. This was a risk-taking behavior because‚ as i later found out‚ the school figured out that I wasn’t actually sick and called my parents. Then‚ my parents found out about my boyfriend
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Since the beginning of civilization there have been always laws or codes. They were laws of conducts set by someone with power‚ mainly by the king. There were three laws or codes that The king Hammurabi created the Codes of Hammurabi. It consists of 282 laws which each one are mostly disciplinary or penalizing. The laws varies from gender to social class. Also‚ criminal behavior‚ slavery‚ divorce and property rights. If the laws were disobeyed it was already set the brutal punishments or fine that
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The idea of any rule being righteous is often questioned‚ since a righteous rule or law is very ambiguous . In the past‚ Hammurabi created the first complete set of rules called‚ Hammurabi’s Code‚ that was intense in some area’s ‚ and too lenient in others. In some of his rules‚he wasn’t fair to the accused‚ to the victim‚ and to the society in all his laws. The accused should be punished enough to learn the lesson. Being harsh is necessary in some cases‚ but some cases harshness goes to the extreme
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Hammurabi had 282 laws many with extremely harsh punishments like death. Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon for 42 years and was thought to have gotten his laws from the god of justice Shamash. I believe that Hammurabi’s code was unjust because of the family law‚ property law‚ and the personal injury law. First of all‚ it is unjust because of the family laws. Law 148 states that if a man’s wife wife is severely ill the man can remarry but he cannot divorce the ill wife and still has to take care
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