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    Justice and Injustices

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    the right thing so we can satisfy our craving for justice.   But there are times where justice cannot be obtained by doing the “right” thing because obtaining justice will always require some sort of action be done even if that action is wrong. Shakespeare’ Julius Caesar shows that before justice can take place there must be injustice.   Nothing can be gained without first sacrificing something. Justice is the same way.   The sacrifice for justice takes form in peoples actions. Sometimes those actions

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    Modern State

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    1.What does the modern state do? What are the salient features of the modern state? a. intrusive and regulative i. restricts individual freedom ii. control all citizens lives everywhere iii. the state is an omnipresent busy body b. extractive c. coercive i. monopoly over mens of violence ii. coerce us into willing/ unwilling means ALL THE STATES HAVE THESE FEATURES. THE DIFFERENCE IS ONE OF DEGREE RATHER THAN KIND. 2. How has the modern state appeared and evolved

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    Justice In The Holocaust

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    of World War II‚ about two-thirds of the Jewish population were killed. Countless people lost their family and their friends. When the survivors were released from the concentration camps‚ numerous individuals had nowhere to go‚ and no place to call home. The Allied forces tried a multitude of Nazi War criminals in the Nuremberg Trials hoping that the imprisonment or killing of these flawed‚ yet guilty German officials would bring justice to those who survived the Holocaust. But was justice truly ever

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    Social Justice

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    Question ‘Social justice ... is neither the exclusive terrain of social welfare nor of crime control. Indeed‚ the boundaries between these two domains tend to be mobile and porous’ (Book 1‚ Social Justice: Welfare‚ Crime and Society‚ p. 168). Explain and illustrate this with reference to examples drawn from at least two chapters from Book 1. According to Newman & Yeates (2008) Social Justice is a device that can be called upon to challenge particular forms of inequality or unfairness and

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    Thomas Aquinas

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    Philosophy 1000 paper 2 | Aquinas | How does Aquinas think we acquire knowledge? | | Makenzie Thornock | 11/2/2012 | | 1.) Thomas Aquinas believes that humans are born with a clean slate in a state of potency and acquire knowledge through sense experiences by abstraction of the phantasms. His view on how man acquires knowledge rejects Plato’s theory that humans are born with innate species. Along with Plato’s theory of humans understanding corporeal things through innate species

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    Law and Justice

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    Law and Justice Abstract Justice is the quality of being fair or just. This is not an exhaustive definition of justice. Different philosophers have defined justice in different ways. Justice is a concept that provides balance between law and morality. Rawls proposition for law and justice has been accepted by world judicial fraternity as a landmark vision to understand the system. Similarly it has earned a good amount of criticism which shows the basic strength of the thought. As such: Rawls theories

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    Modern Politics

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    philosophers of the twentieth century. Many of those great theorists had one single thing in common: they have strived to break old concepts of political thought‚ being it racial and gender inequality‚ or ideas on how to be a leader with less opposition. In modern politics‚ after a long period of centralized governments‚ the brief trend of gaining freedom and equality has been deteriorating and the creation of an illusion of freedom has slowly replaced the true freedom of speech and thought. In the times of

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    Food Justice

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    Food Justice. Walking into the lecture I had no clue what food justice meant. If anything‚ I figured the lecture had to do with justice for fair trade for farmers or the justice in regulation of genetically modified foods. Instead it turned out to be justice that seeks to ensure that the risk associated with growing‚ producing‚ transporting‚ distributing‚ eating‚ access to food is shared by everyone fairly. After Professor Kieth Pezzoli gave a little explanation about food justice and its

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    Introduction 2. Administration Of Justice 3. Need for administration of justice 4. Legal justice and natural justice 5. Distinction between civil justice and criminal justice 6. Theories of punishment 7. Kinds of punishment 8. Justice in India 9. Conclusion ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Introduction Justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics‚ rationality‚ law‚ natural law‚ religion‚ equity and fairness. Understandings of justice differ in every culture‚ as cultures

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    MODERN ART

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    Modern art-kind of art that does not resemble anything; abstract & distorted Modern- means something new One of the things that make modern painting & sculpture hard to grasp is its sheer variety of styles. Some emerge & flourish for a few years & then drop out of fashion‚ to be replaced by another mode. This includes: Realism Impressionism Post-impressionism Neo-impressionism Fauvism Cubism Expressionism Surrealism Futurism Minimalism May 1874‚ a group of young artists held their

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