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Justice According to Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Plato

In seven pages this paper discusses the many components and perspectives on justice utilizing the categorical imperative of Immanu...

Comparison of the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclamation

In five pages these two historical documents are compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

Philosophers and Justice Throughout History

an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...

Canada's Sikh Community

Canada's Sikh community is examined in an historical overview consisting of 13 pages....

Blind Faith Book Review

In a paper consisting of ten pages a criminal justice perspective is employed in this book review in which the argument that the s...

An Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Dead Man Walking

This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...

Progressive Reform Movement and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses how the Progressive Reform Movement perspectives relate to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell...

US and Japan Trade Conflict

In ten pages this paper discusses the contemporary historical trade conflict between Japan and the United States....

Semitic Origins of the Hyksos

the Hyksos rulers (Redmount 68). Manethos text as interpreted by Josephus describes the Hyksos rulers as "sacrilegious inv...

Justice in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares Homer's concept of justice with contemporary perspectives as it relates to 'The Odyssey.' There ...

Perspectives of Robert Nozick and John Rawls on Justice

In ten pages these two Harvard philosophers' views on justice are compared in a consideration of human socialization and an assess...

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...

Plato and the Bible on Justice

In five pages this paper examines the perspectives on justice expressed by Plato in The Republic and in the Bible's Book of Luke. ...

New Darwinist Theories on Biological Determinism

In five pages this paper examines biological determinism from the perspectives of recent Darwinist theories and how justice is onl...

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...

'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...

Punishment and Its Effectiveness

works. Yerkes demonstrated the principal in a simple T-shaped maze, as in one of the places, the experimenter placed a strip of s...

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...

Management of Criminal Justice

officials by giving them a clear cut series of tasks to accomplish. What this would tend to do, one might state, is to give the of...

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...

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...

Justice According to Socrates and Thrasymachus

but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...

Criminal JusticeIV

Another advantage of plea bargaining is that it allows prosecutors to dispatch cases quickly, freeing time and resources to fully ...

Anthony Kemp's D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy

was paramount to any further success in ending the Second World War. His work is primarily aimed at simply offering facts, at show...

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

his particular notions; some of these are, in brief, that every person should have equal access to basic liberties and also that s...

Different Types of Sociological Research Approaches

those aspects (religion) and rather than offering alternatives, asks the subject to place religion on a sliding scale of importanc...

The Historical Significance of Black Boy by Richard Wright

they know that to rebel would be disastrous. Then, just a short while later he begins to notice, for the very first time in his...

Work Perspectives In Criminal Justice

ii. Help employees stay afloat in an often slow or burned out economy D. Shared Vision...