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Essays 1861 - 1890

Herodotus and Plato on Gyges of Lydia

about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supern...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, and Girls

compel them to seek solutions to their problems though such activities as gang membership (xvi). The authors go on to show that ...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

Overview of the 'New South Africa'

comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...

Contemporary Relevance of the 'Social Contract' of Jean Jacques Rousseau

nonetheless that speaks of how we feel, as Americans, we are free and independent, yet powerfully under the control of our own "so...

Protected Wildlife Areas, Oil Exploration, and Ethics

of the balance to be considered to be between "pleasures" and "pains" while John Stuart Mill changed the balance to one between "h...

Freedom, Liberty, and Justice According to Martin Luther King Jr., Cicero, and John Stuart Mill

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

Relationship Between the Judiciary and Gerald Ford

or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...

History of Judicial Review and its Justification

even more so in recent times. That branch is the judicial division, that division which oversees the actions of Congress itself. ...

Workplace Performance and Motivational Factors

work-related behavior, as well as its form, intensity and duration (Ambrose et al, 1999). This definition takes into account envir...

Justice Argument of Socrates

classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain ...

A Common Humanity of Raimond Gaita

Recovering "Serious" Morality Because of Gaitas clear willingness to address what most would refer to as the "hard issues," it sh...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Aeschylus and Plato on Justice

works into three central periods: namely, early, middle and late and the Republic is generally regarded as a middle period work (W...

Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and Frankenstein on Achieving Justice Through the Legitimacy of Violence

fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...

Justice in the United States

However, this is an exaggeration, surely, as there has been a precedent for this type of secret military trial. It occurred in 194...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice

Gilligan summarizes this by saying that male morality has a "justice orientation", and that female morality has a "responsibility ...

Putting Together a Mitigation

to injure his assistant to this extent. When we consider the findings of the sentencing advisory panel there is also an indicati...

H.R. 863 Congressional Bill of 2001

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

John Rawls' Theory of Justice and the Administration of President George W. Bush

on justice that even the welfare of society cannot override" (Rawls PG). When examining the impact of Rawls theories with regard ...

Limited Liability and Justifying It Philosophically

Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Conceptual Analysis of Boccaccio's The Decameron and Dante's Inferno

literature. In contemplating Dantes Inferno and Boccaccios The Decameron, many things come to light. To some extent both works ex...

Global Justice and its Relevance

justice systems are a significant first line of defense, but they have been seen as problematic ("Challenges," 1998). In a perfec...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...