What is justice? Is justice blind? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
WEBThere are four main distinctions within the concept of justice, there is a distinction between procedural and substantive justice, and between comparative and non-comparative justice. When you say: From my perspective there is no justice until the one being judged has a say in how he is being judged. That is then a procedural form of justice ...
Newest 'injustice' Questions - Philosophy Stack Exchange
WEBDec 12, 2019 — From my perspective there is no justice until the one being judged has a say in how he is being judged. I believe ... consciousness. justice. injustice. Perry jr. 1. asked May 3, 2020 at 17:34. 0 votes.
plato socrates the-republic - Philosophy Stack Exchange
WEBJun 23, 2018 — Living, too, is its function. Since a thing which has a function has an excellence [arete] pecular to itself- the excellence of the eye is to see clearly and well - and since justice is the excellence of the soul, the soul will perform its function well only in accordance with justice. The just sou, then, will live well just as the eye, when it ...
What are prominent attacks of Rawls' "veil of ignorance" argument ...
WEBIn it, Nozick adopts a libertarian approach to justice to challenge Rawls's Second Principle of Justice. Among other things, Nozick's most easily understandable argument boils down to the point that property rights must be included within Rawls's notion of individual rights; that is, the individualist right of and to self-ownership.
Newest 'justice' Questions - Philosophy Stack Exchange
WEBWhat is justice? Is justice blind? ... Mainstream theories of justice, particularly luck egalitarianism ...
Does Plato see tyranny as final? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
WEB12. Plato's Republic famously describes the decay of the regimes, a process by which a society decays from the best regime, that of aristocracy, to the lowest, that of tyranny. However, the purpose of this concept of regimes is to expand upon Plato's extensive analogy of the city; he uses his "city in speech" to explain the concept of the soul ...
Is it logical to seek revenge? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
WEBMar 21, 2023 — Perhaps retributive justice is the sublimated, generalized version of the thirst for revenge. The two are nonetheless different. As George Fletcher wrote (2000: 417), retributivism “is not to be identified with vengeance or revenge, any more than love is to be identified with lust”.
ethics - Have any philosophers directly challenged the concept of ...
WEBJan 10, 2021 — Retributive justice, it seems, is widely embraced—both by people on the basis of their basic moral intuitions, and by institutions and governments. Obviously, retributive justice isn't embraced by everyone. Consequentialists, for example, have to reject it, since it conflicts with the "bring about the best consequences" principle.
What is meant by the field of Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita?
WEBSep 3, 2014 — 1. The Mahabharata is an Indo-Aryan epic about the dynastic struggle by Pandavas & the Kauravas for the throne of the Kingdom of the Kuru, held by Dhtrarastra, the blind king of the Kauravas. The Bhagavad Gita, (the Song of Bhagavan - God), appears just before the climatic war between the two parties; and is of central importance in …
ethics - How would a Kantian handle vigilante justice? - Philosophy ...
WEBOct 12, 2016 — 0. The maxim behind vigilante justice that involves action rather than mere prevention seems to be 'Everyone should enforce the moral rules for themselves.'. This would scare me. Many people think they know what the rules of morality are, and I would not want them to impose that misunderstanding upon me.